Matthew Peretz

SMC Networks announced that in May, it will begin shipping its EZ Connect 11 Mbps Wireless Compact Flash Card Kit. The kit consists of an 802.11b CF type II adapter and a CF-to-PCMCIA adapter. The adapter supports Win 98/Me/NT/2000/XP and Pocket PC 2002. The unit will have an estimated street price of $132. Streaming media […]

Reuters reported a few more details of British Telecom’s WLAN plan we thought worthy of sharing. BT plans to have 400 hot spots within a year, and 4,000 within three years. According to the news agency, BT stated that building the system would cost less than 10 million pounds per year. BT told Reuters that […]

What is the definition of a disruptive technology?: Here is one interpretation, since we seem to be seeing the term applied more and more frequently to 802.11 solutions. “In real-world terms,” Rick Rotondo, of Mesh Networks says, “it has to meet at least two of three criteria: be ten times cheaper than any alternative, have […]

British Telecom, or BT as it is commonly called, today announced a new set of BT-branded mobility initiatives, including a public access WLAN. BT revealed that it is working with Motorola and Cisco on these initiatives. Motorola’s role will be as prime contractor and systems integrator, which, along with Cisco, will ultimately deliver the BT […]

Telenor, Norway’s largest telecom provider, announced Tuesday that it is set to deploy what it claims will be Europe’s largest WLAN-enabled campus, at its new Fornebu headquarters. The new headquarters occupies 137,000 square meters (about 1,474,649 sq. ft.) and will employ approximately 7,700 people from 40 offices in the greater Oslo area who are relocating. […]

Airpath Wireless, Inc., a privately held WiFi solutions company based in Toledo, Ohio, announced Friday that it has established three specific segments of its business: Airpath Internet, Airpath Roaming, and Airpath Integration. This, according to Airpath, is in line with its effort to grow a national hotspot footprint. Airpath was mentioned in a Bear Stearns […]

InterNetwork Experts, a subsidiary of I-Sector Corporation, announced today that it has completed the implementation of 802.11b infrastructure at the Minneapolis-St.Paul Airport, as part of the deployment of a neutral-host wireless system developed by Concourse Communications Group and iPass. According to the company, this airport is the first to deploy a neutral-host WLAN. One of […]

Wind River Systems, Inc. today announced an agreement with Atheros Communications in which the latter will be able to license and resell Wind River’s Tornado for Home Gateways platform with Atheros 802.11a access point reference designs. The companies stated that the combination can be used as is or as a design starting point for developers […]

VOCAL Technologies, Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of customized 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g solutions. Specifically, the solutions enable designers to access different elements of the physical layer (Layer 1) and modify them to suit different applications. VOCAL Technologies stated that these customized solutions will still be in compliance with the WLAN standards. Potential customized […]

Deep Blue Wireless surfaced today to join the ranks of last week’s electrifying WiFi launches of Joltage Networks and Sputnik, Inc. Deep Blue Wireless is based in California and as such, joins an increasingly competitive land grab for a piece of the WiFi revenue pie, whose ranks also include Palo Alto start-up WiFi Metro, not […]

Consulting firm Predictive Systems yesterday announced new services to enable companies to design, secure, and manage wireless LANs. Predictive systems has structured their services around four principal areas: Assessment: included in this category are strategy and planning; ROI analysis; risk analysis; WLAN security assessment; site survey; training; application analysis: and project planning. Design: WLAN network […]

San Francisco-based Sputnik, Inc. and New York-based Joltage Networks today unveiled WLAN access services designed to accelerate the proliferation of WiFi access points (APs) by enabling end-users to set up and become micro-wireless ISPs (WISPs) with minimal investment and experience. Where the companies are similar is in their means of distributing the software necessary to […]