Eric Griffith

The general setup for the average home or small business network goes like this: Take your cable or DSL modem, plug it into a router, and use it to share the high-speed Internet connection with all the networked PCs. Toshiba America Information Systems, Network Products Division (NPD) of Irvine, CA, has announced a new cable […]

Cambridge, MA-based Funk Software, who recently announced upgrades to its two RADIUS server products (Odyssey and Steel-Belted Radius) has gone one better for WISPs this week, announcing the Steel-Belted Radius/Hotspot Edition (HSE). HSE is a customized version of the Steel-Belted Radius authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) server that taps into existing Internet infrastructure so visiting […]

Emeryville, CA-based Pronto Networks, maker of the Pronto Hotspot Networking System, will put support for the Boingo Wireless network on all its hardware, letting Boingo users surf at any hotspot powered by Pronto. As part of this deal, all Pronto hotspot venues become Boingo members automatically. Pronto expects deployment of over 400 new public hotspots […]

Long expected and finally arrived (though not on sale for a couple more weeks), Microsoft today made public its Broadband Networking line of products. The line includes both wireless and wired components targeted at home and small office networks looking to share a high speed Internet connection. The wireless side of the Broadband Networking line […]

First announced in June of this year by Irvine, CA-based Intersil Corporation , the PRISM Indigo chip that supports the 802.11a protocol in the 5GHz radio band (5.15 – 5.35 GHz frequency) has now entered full production, according to the company. Intersil claims that PRISM Indigo has a $35 bill of materials (BOM) per chip. […]

Not everyone can make it to shows like Networld+Interop and Comdex 2002 in Atlanta or the Intel Developer’s Conference in San Jose. If you’re curious what WLAN technology has been announced there, here’s some of the week’s news in brief. Security Fortress Technologies has released the $6495 AF6500 wireless security gateway, part of the company’s […]

The cycle of wireless LAN products usually leads to one inevitable conclusion: upgrades. New technologies and chips mean the access points deployed in an office or warehouse today have to be individually upgraded each year or so, or worse, completely changed. This can be an expensive prospect for any size company when IT labor is […]

The general rule of thumb when connecting the networks of remote buildings is that it’s going to be a pain, whether you’re going coax, fiber, or even wireless. Proxim hopes the new Tsunami QuickBridge product it’s unveiling this month will restore the ease-of-use factor. Maureen Smith, Product Marketing Manager for Tsunami QuickBridge calls them “a […]

Dallas-based Texas Instruments is introducing the next generation of its 802.11b chip. The TNETW1100B is a Medium Access Controller (MAC) and baseband processor that the company says significantly reduces power consumption for WLAN-enabled devices. It also reduces the size (down to 12×12 millimeters), which they hope will help drive embedded 802.11b in products like phones […]

In July hereUare Communications put itself up for sale and said at the time that if it couldn’t sell in two weeks, the company would “go away.” Over a month later, hereUare is still with us, though in a much smaller form. The company that once claimed it had 47% of the hotspot market in […]