Jeff Goldman

AirMagnet has launched a series of new “jumpstart kits” to help channel partners offer their enterprise customers professional services around wireless surveying, design and planning, troubleshooting, WLAN validation, voice readiness and more. The kits include discounted product bundles along with training, video demonstrations, and sample audit output reports. Chris Rockel, AirMagnet’s vice president of marketing, […]

For more on WiMAX, read “Understanding WiMAX,” “Tech Trends and Products to Watch in 2008,” “Sprint Optimistic About WiMAX.” For more on wireless equipment manufacturers, read “Wireless Equipment Manufacturer Directory: BelAir Networks,” “Wireless Equipment Manufacturer Directory: E-ZY.net,” “Proxim Wireless’s End-to-End Solution Stands Out.” Article courtesy of ISP-Planet.com.

As the presidential election approaches, there’s little discussion in the media of the leading candidates’ positions regarding technology issues. While that’s more than understandable when immediate concerns like the economic crisis loom large, the differences between John McCain and Barack Obama on technology policy are worth a look. In a recent report, Stephen J. Ezell […]

Vancouver-based Tranzeo Wireless Technologies was founded back in 2000 by current CEO Jim Tocher. “For the last seven years, the company has focused on Wi-Fi-based outdoor wireless access, and has been very successful at leading network access for WISPs…We have about 2,600 dealers and WISPs that buy our products,” says Dave Gelvin, President of Tranzeo USA. […]

Altair Semiconductor was founded in May of 2005 by Oded Melamed, Yigal Bitran, and Eran Eshed, who had shared backgrounds at Texas Instruments and at Libit Signal Processing, which was acquired by TI in 1999. “We had a very, very extensive background in developing chipsets, and especially broadband chipsets,” says Eshed, now the company’s vice […]

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department recently announced the deployment of a wireless video surveillance network in Lynwood, California as part of its Advanced Surveillance and Protection Plan. The system, designed and installed by Leverage Information Systems, was deployed using a Firetide wireless mesh network. The Lynwood area, served by the LASD’s Century Station, has […]

History Proxim Wireless’s corporate history gets a little complicated, but follow along if you can… YDI Wireless was created in April of 2003 as a result of the merger of the millimeter-wave wireless company Telaxis Communications and the microwave wireless company Young Design, Inc. In May of 2004, the new company acquired the wireless software […]

Don Davis and Mark Hersly founded HD Communications in 1991 to sell communications equipment. At the time, Davis says, that mostly meant cellular equipment—but the company has since expanded to offer a full range of wireless products for everyone from home users to wireless ISPs. The company now also runs a WISP on Fire Island, […]

Two years after its initial RFP, the trial deployment in San Carlos, CA this week received city approval to begin moving forward. If completed, the project will cover 1,500 square miles with wireless. Wireless Silicon Valley, a project aiming to cover 1,500 square miles of California’s Silicon Valley with wireless access, has faced repeated delays […]

Dimitrios Sidiropoulos founded E-ZY.net a few years back in Veria, Greece: he also runs the wireless equipment distributor Aerial.net. E-ZY.net has been manufacturing equipment mostly for wireless ISPs in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East—until Sidiropolous opened a U.S. manufacturing and distribution arm for the company earlier this year in Draper, Utah, about 20 miles […]

Municipal Wi-Fi networks may have been getting a bad rap lately, but citywide wireless networks deployed to support public safety – as opposed to public Internet access – seem to be doing just fine. From Washington, D.C. to Dallas, Texas, cities are using tools like video surveillance both to prevent crime and to investigate incidents […]

UK-based Nomad Digital uses WiMAX to provide Internet access on trains–because, conveniently enough, both radio waves and railways go in straight lines. Nigel Wallbridge and Graeme Lowdon founded the UK-based company Nomad Digital in 2002 to provide wireless connectivity to the public transportation sector. Nomad’s key differentiator, Wallbridge says, is its proprietary solution for enabling […]