Eric Griffith

Cisco’s Secure Wireless Solution is the latest move by the San Jose, California-based company to continue its push to unify wired and wireless, this time with a focus on security. It combines use of various items: a Network Admission Control (NAC) Appliance, ASA Firewall, Cisco Security Agent (CSA) software, IPS Software, Secure ACS server and […]

At 3GSM World Congress 2007 today, Boingo Wireless made official its commitment to a Boingo Mobile service that lets users of mobile device handsets pay only $7.95 a month for VoIP service using Boingo’s virtual network of hotspots. This is in contrast to the $21.95 a month they charge laptop users for unlimited data access […]

In anticipation of the 3GSM World Congress conference in Barcelona, Spain this month, Wavesat this week announced its future strategy for 802.16e-2005, the mobile WiMax standard which many other vendors have already embraced. “We’ve been quiet on this to protect our fixed WiMax developments and deployment of equipment,” says Rainer Ullmann, product line manager at […]

Hot on the heels of Broadcom’s announcement last week of a chip that will integrate Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and even FM radio reception for use in handhelds comes Texas Instruments (TI) with the direct competition. The new WiLink 6.0 chip will go one better on the Wi-Fi end by supporting draft 802.11n, and not just in […]

Towerstream has slowly but surely expanded its services across big cities in the United States for the last few years, delivering fixed WiMax to businesses in Boston, Providence, Newport, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. It was ready to start building in Seattle when CEO Jeff Thompson says he had an interesting phone […]

iPass prides itself on providing as many connection types as possible to its corporate customers, be it dial-up or Wi-Fi or even EV-DO-based 3G services. The company’s latest addition lets it work from just about any location on any continent except Antarctica: satellite. “It’s new and exciting for us,” says Piero De Paoli, director of […]

If you’ve got a wireless network and you want to share access with your friends and family — or with the whole world — you need to keep it open to all, or provide the encryption keys you use for entry, right? Not if Whisher gets its wish. The startup, on display this week at […]

With competitors like Broadcom and Texas Instruments having brought Wi-Fi and Bluetooth together long ago, it was probably only a matter of time before Atheros Communications joined the group. The new Atheros AR3011 will be the company’s first Radio-on-Chip for Mobile (ROCm) product supporting the shorter-range wireless technology used primarily in mobile phones. Srinivas Pattamatta, […]

SOMA Networks makes equipment with the express purpose of helping the underserved. So far, it seems to be helping the company as well. SOMA has announced that its products are in use mostly in North American deployments. AT&T uses the company’s FlexMAX-branded WiMax products in both rural and urban environments, including a network in an […]

The city of Atlanta, Georgia has picked hometown company EarthLink to build and run a citywide Wi-Fi network. The deal is not final yet. “We have to get through contract negotiations and city council approval,” says Don Berryman, president of EarthLink’s Municipal Networks Division. “That’ll take a couple of months.” He expects deployment could start […]

First announced in September 2006, 802.11n is now officially a part of Intel’s Centrino mobile platform, a chipset that couples the processor with the graphics and the wireless. That wireless part is now what Intel calls Next-Gen Wireless-N, and comes on a PCIe mini Card (model 4965AGN) inserted in the laptop. Formerly codenamed “Santa Rosa,” […]

Most people consider fixed/mobile convergence (F/MC) between Wi-Fi and cellular a good thing, but of course there’s a downside. Leave it to a security company to know that — and to provide a solution. This week, Check Point Software Technologies announced its VPN-1 MASS (Multi-Access Security Solution). It will let carriers implementing an F/MC solution […]