Matthew Peretz

WLAN chipset maker Intersil Corporation today announced that Symbol Technologies is incorporating Intersil’s PRISM 2.5 technology into its suite of Spectrum24 High Rate WLAN products that feature the Symbol Wireless Networker. The Symbol Wireless Networker is a type I Compact Flash adapter for Pocket PCs and other Windows devices. The Intersil chipset is being incorporated […]

Harris Corporation, a communications solutions provider for the U.S. government, today announced the development of its SecNet-11, Secure Wireless Local Area Network (SWLAN) product for government and military applications. The company stated that its SecNet-11 product has been accepted as part of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Commercial COMSEC Endorsement Program. The product is designed […]

BOPS, Inc. yesterday introduced an evaluation chip for its Mobile Wireless Processor (MWP) to be used in PHY (physical layer of OSI model) processing in 802.11a, 802.11b, and HiperLAN/2 solutions. BOPS licenses and integrates scalable broadband digital signal processing (DSP) cores used in WLAN chip architectures. The MWP was created in TSMC’s (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing […]

The Management Network Group (TNMG), in partnership with inCode Telecom Group, Inc., announced today the formation of what the companies call the first independent wireless development and testing laboratory. TNMG is a management consulting company for the telecom industry and inCode is a tech consulting firm. The stated goal and function of the lab in […]

SMC Networks today announced the upcoming availability of its 802.11a products, including a Wireless Access Point and a Wireless CardBus Adapter. SMC expects the products to be available in December via direct marketers, e-commerce sites, and other partners. SMC’s 802.11a products are targeted towards the SOHO and SMB markets and are backed by a lifetime […]

Details of a Forrester Research study of the WLAN/Bluetooth markets in Europe released Friday indicate that the two technologies will co-exist with minimal problems. This is quite contrary to the the numerous dire industry predictions about a high degree of incompatibility between the two wireless technologies and the eventual triumph of WLAN or 802.11 technology […]

Resonext Communications announced today the introduction of its RN5200 family of 5 GHz Wi-Fi (802.11a) chip sets designed for client and access point (AP) platform integration. Resonext chip sets incorporate what it calls True-Zero IF 5 GHz radio, flexible Media Access Control (MAC), Access Point on a Chip (APoC) architecture and AccuChannel equalization technology. The […]

Intersil and IBM Corporation announced today that the latter is using the Intersil PRISM 2.5 wireless networking chip set in its High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway. The products are Wi-Fi (802.11b) certified and targeted towards the SOHO customer. The Model 22P6401 IBM Wireless LAN Gateway also includes an integrated access point that can be used […]

WLAN silicon technology provider Intersil Corporation today announced the availability of Microsoft Windows XP drivers for wireless networking products based on the company’s PRISM technology. Intersil stated that it plans to release the source code and distribution licensing to its OEM customers for driver software coinciding with the OS launch. Windows XP supports the IEEE […]

Intersil Corporation, developer of silicon solutions for the WLAN market, today announced that its PRISM technology has been incorporated into two new NetVision wireless telephony devices from device maker Symbol Technologies. The PRISM chipset technology is Intersil’s Wi-Fi certified, integrated solution for 802.11 architectures. The NetVision Phone from Symbol is designed to deliver wireless voice […]

Belkin announced today that it will be shipping five new 802.11b products in North America beginning November 1, 2001. The company stated that all five products are interoperable with all 802.11b compliant wireless devices but did not specifically label them Wi-Fi certified. All five products come with the Belkin SOHO Networking Software, which assists Windows-based […]

A report issued by Allied Business Intelligence (ABI) yesterday highlighted the expected growth in the WLAN integrated circuit (IC) industry occurring as a result of the frenzy of activity in the wireless LAN sector in general. The report stated that revenues grew from $71 million in 1999 to $257 million in 2000. ABI stated that […]