Eric Griffith

Adaptix says it has been issued Patent No. 7,164,669 five years after filing for it. The patent covers “methods for implementing multi-user Quality of Service (QoS) over OFDMA using information such as transmission rates, signal and noise conditions and traffic loading,” according to a statement released by the company. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) […]

Beceem announced this week that its BCS200 chipset will power a planned 802.16e (mobile WiMax) handset that Sanyo plans to bring to the market in the future. The phone will actually be dual-mode, supporting both WiMax and CDMA cellular, a Sanyo specialty. Beceem’s BCS200 includes a baseband processor and direct conversion radio/modem software.

Joining cities like Los Angeles, California and Savannah, Georgia (see “Wi-Fi’s Chilling Effect on Crime“), Dallas, Texas is the site of a new wireless video surveillance network intended to reduce crime, specifically in the downtown freeway loop business district. According to Ksenia Coffman, marketing manager for Firetide — the maker of the mesh equipment used […]

Security on a wireless LAN is about more than just encryption. Meru Networks is addressing that with the first update to its AirShield Security Suite. The company says it’s all about “application awareness” — the software recognizes the type of traffic on a network, such as voice communication, and allows it through while continuing to […]

Mesh equipment provider SkyPilot announced a slew of new updates to its family of products this week. Foremost is the introduction of the SkyAccess DualBand product, a unit designed to sit on the edge of a mesh network. Like the company’s SkyExtender units, the DualBand uses the 4.9-5.8GHz band (whatever the provider wants to use) […]

JiWire.com provides a pretty comprehensive look at the number of hotspots out in the world, based on its database of 100,000 locations. One thing it can’t provide is a look at the usage of those sites by businesses. So iPass is hoping to fill that void. Today, the company launched its iPass Wi-Fi Hotspot Index, […]

San Francisco already has more Wi-Fi than most cities, even without the chronically-delayed citywide network that’s been held up by the politicos. So what’s a little more? What’s going to be different with the square mile of free Wi-Fi intended to stretch from Mission Dolores Park up to Alamo Square Park is that it will […]

The Wi-Fi Real-Time Location Services (RTLS) market is on fire with new announcements this week, many coming out of the location-heavy needs of the healthcare industry as shown at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) Annual Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans through March 1. First up is AeroScout, with new Wi-Fi tracking […]

Late in the summer of 2007, Tropos Networks plans to have three new products on the market supporting the 4.9GHz radio spectrum reserved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for use by public safety and EMS since 2002. The new Tropos 9000 family of products will debut with three MetroMesh versions, one for outside mounting, […]

If carriers and providers of mesh networks didn’t feel they were getting enough from the software that runs their nets, Tropos Networks has an answer: upgrade. The company’s new Insight data analysis module, now in version 2.0, continues a focus for the company on providing better info for providers. “The installations [of mesh networks] are […]

ArubaOS 3.1 and the Aruba Mobility Management System (MMS) 2.0 are now available to customers of Aruba Networks. The focus of the new software is on scalable mobility. “Everyone started with wireless in conference rooms and small areas, at least a couple of years ago,” says Jon Green, Aruba product manager. “Today, they start with […]

Collaboration between Cisco Systems and AirMagnet has led to the release of a version of the AirMagnet Enterprise Analyzer for Cisco. The software is specifically designed to provide real-time analysis of a network using Cisco’s lightweight access points both to collect data and to provide client access. “It does all the stuff you’d expect from […]