Eric Griffith

Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems Company of Secaucus, NJ, has announced a new series of LCD projectors, the PT-L700 Series, two of which include 802.11b compliant wireless. The PT-L730NTU is an eight pound ultra-portable projector; the PT-L780NTU is a 11 pound portable with higher brightness (3000 lumens) and a new .99″ TFT Active Matrix Polysilicon […]

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Today at the 802.11 Planet conference & Expo, mobile broadband network company MeshNetworks, the company behind technology to turn any wireless, mobile node into an extender of a wireless LAN thereby creating a “self-healing” peer-to-peer mesh, is teaming up with Troy, Michigan’s Delphi to create a test network in Delphi’s Kokomo, IN […]

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Fabless semiconductor manufacturer SyChip, of Plano, TX, today announced that they’re getting into the 802.11b chip set space with a reference design for a secure digital (SD) input/output WLAN card. The general form factor of an SD card, usually used as a memory storage card, is about the size of a postage […]

SMC Networks of Irvine, CA, announced today that it’s entering a strategic partnership with hot spot aggregator Boingo Wireless. SMC will provide Boingo Wi-Fi sniffer/login software with all of its 802.11b-based PC Cards in the future. The software is free to download. SMC’s wireless network card which will bundle the software (the SMC2623W v.2) retails […]

Berkeley Varitronics Systems (BVS) of Metuchen, NJ this week unveiled its new handheld analysis module for 802.11b-based networks. The Yellowjacket is an add-on for a Compaq iPAQ PocketPC personal digital assistant that measures direct sequence WLANs in the 2.4 to 2.495GHz band to determine the access point, SSIS, packet error rate (PER), WEP settings, Multipath […]

It’s been a busy week for Santa Monica-based hotspot aggregator Boingo Wireless. The company, which provides Wi-Fi based Internet connections at more than 600 partner access areas in the United States, is continuing to grow by adding partners, pushing promotion, and offering hotspot setup hardware. Boingo — which launched in 2001and has already partnered with […]

Irvine, CA,-based WLAN chip maker Intersil has announced PRISM Duette, a dual-band 802.11a and 802.11g solution for future wireless network products. Because of the chip’s support for 802.11g, the 54Mbps chip will be backwards compatible with the existing and ubiquitous 802.11b standard, which is limited to 11Mbps speeds. The chip will not be available until […]

Wi-Fi vendor Agere Systems of Allentown, PA, maker of the ORiNOCO line of 802.11-based WLAN products, today announced a new smart access point technology that combines Internet gateway software with Agere’s existing Wi-Fi access points. Agere hopes the new technology will enable subscribers using a roaming aggregator service like Boingo to easily connect to a […]

MeshNetworks of Orlando, FL, the company that seeks to extend WLAN range by using existing wireless devices on a network as hoping points, last week announced availability of its Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) for supporting the company’s Multi-Hop routing technology. The company and its ASIC are “radio agnostic,” meaning the Multi-Hop technology and the […]

Agere Systems today announced that it is no longer a part of Lucent Technologies. Agere, formerly a wholly-owned microelectronics division of Lucent, is now a completely separate company. Agere is the maker of the ORiNOCO Wireless WLAN products and technology. This process began in 2000 when beleaguered Lucent spun Agere out as a separate unit. […]

AirDefense of Atlanta, GA, today announced the launch of its self-titled AirDefense enterprise wireless LAN security appliance. More than just a WLAN sniffer, the product includes a state analysis engine for real-time 24×7 monitoring of all traffic on the network. It then correlates all traffic data with its intrusion detection engine to show security risks […]

Broadband fixed wireless DSL equipment provider Airspan Networks of Sunrise, Florida, and Uxbridge in the United Kingdom, has announced it will be integrating 802.11b technology into its series of subscriber terminal products. The final product will be called the ST-W1 subscriber terminal. It is based on Airspan’s existing licensed spectrum AS40xx series of terminals. Adding […]