Jeff Goldman

This Florida heath care organization uses the newest in wireless technology throughout its nine hospitals in a number of different ways–including a current trial of Motion C5 tablet PCs. Florida’s Orlando Regional Healthcare, a 1,780-bed network of healthcare facilities, is currently running a trial deployment of Motion Computing’s Motion C5  tablet PCs. Recently certified as […]

AT&T recently launched its AT&T Business in a Box service, designed to make IP communications user-friendly for small and mid-size businesses. Included with Business in a Box is AT&T’s hosted IP PBX service called Voice DNA, a managed T-1, and the company’s Business in a Box router (see images, below), which includes Wi-Fi, firewall, Power […]

In almost any disaster recovery scenario–from wild fires to bridge collapses to earthquakes or storms–Wi-Fi offers the perfect mix of flexibility and interoperability. Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in the fall of 2005, a group of Burning Man participants calling themselves Burners Without Borders headed to Pearlington, Mississippi and began helping out in any […]

It’s still early days for ad-supported Wi-Fi, and companies in the space are trying many different ways to make the concept work. There’s been a flood of news lately about advertising-supported Wi-Fi deployments, from JiWire allowing iPhone users to connect for free at its Ads for Access locations to FreeFi Networks’ addition of video-on-demand rentals […]

At CES this week, ultrawideband chipset developer Wisair announced a new reference design for a Wireless USB host and device dongle set. The reference design, based on the company’s WSR601 single-die chip, includes a host dongle, a device dongle with power supply, software drivers, management application, and documentation. It promises speeds of 70-100 Mbps when […]

In a hospital, time is always of the essence, and everyone (and everything) is on the move – which, of course, makes hospitals perfect locations in which to deploy Wi-Fi. According to ABI Research analyst Stan Schatt, 6,161 hospitals out of the 7,526 in the U.S. now have Wi-Fi networks deployed. The most popular applications, […]

On Friday, November 9th, Sprint and Clearwire announced the termination of their letter of intent (LOI), signed in July, to work together on a nationwide WiMAX network. As a Sprint press release explained at the time, “The two companies could not resolve complexities associated with the LOI and failed to reach final agreement on the […]

The wildfires throughout Southern California this fall served as a stark reminder of the value of advanced wireless applications for public safety. From remote monitoring of fire conditions to streaming video in police cars, Wi-Fi has proven exceptionally useful for municipal public safety deployments. In a particularly timely announcement, Tropos Networks this month announced the […]

Meraki Networks this month quietly came out of beta and created three new pricing schemes for its wireless networking products–but the unannounced change caused quite a bit of furor on the company’s message boards, where users felt betrayed by the lack of advance warning. The three new tiers are called Standard, Pro, and Carrier. Standard […]

Last week, Broadcom introduced its first single-chip 802.11n solution, the Intensi-fi BCM4322, which uses 65-nanometer process technology to minimize both the chip’s size and its power consumption. The BCM4322 combines the MAC, baseband, power amplifiers, and radios on a single die.   The company’s previous-generation 802.11n product was a two-chip solution using 130-nanometer and 180-nanometer […]

WiMax solutions provider Telsima released a veritable flood of announcements this week, introducing a complete line of 802.16e mobile WiMax equipment and a new WiMax network architecture called TRUFLE ASN—and also announcing that its contracts with leading operators in India will result in the company shipping a total of 10,000 WiMax base stations and 100,000 […]