Matthew Peretz

Newbury Networks, Inc, a developer of location-based network products, today announced the availability of LocaleManager and LocaleServer. The company described these as solutions for managing and deploying location-enabled networks and applications on WLANs supporting the 802.11 standard. Newbury Networks calls the resulting networks location-enabled networks (LENs). As we described in an previous article, locales are […]

AirTran Airways, based out of the Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, Wednesday announced that it has signed a contract with Airpath Wireless. The partnership will offer 802.11b access in the boarding gate areas in Atlanta, Washington/Dulles, Baltimore/Washington, Boston, and Philadelphia airports. Airpath Wireless will offer several service packages based on a traveler’s needs. Users can purchase […]

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvell Technology Group, Ltd., recently announced that it had completed development of one of the first all-CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) 802.11b chip set solutions (RF transceiver and baseband processor). The article correctly identified that one of the profound impacts that CMOS technology will have on the 802.11 industry will […]

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory operated by the University of California and well known for science and technology relating to weapons, today announced a temporary ban on the “deployment and use of all wireless computer local area networks (LANs) in LLNL’s Open and Property Protection areas. A statement […]

Funk Software, which develops RADIUS solutions, announced an 802.1x security solution Monday that it calls Odyssey. The company stated that Odyssey is an end-to-end security solution for WLANs permitting secure user access and easy deployment over an enterprise network. Odyssey, which includes client and server software, supports the 802.1x security method EAP–TLS included in Windows […]

Avaya Inc. announced a new version of VPN software Monday called VPNremote 4.0 Client. VPN software enables remote workers to securely connect to their corporate networks, including WLANs. The software is a desktop application for Windows operating systems. It is free to enterprises and service providers when they purchase Avaya’s Virtual Private Network Service Unit […]

Netaphor Software Monday announced the beta version of its PDAlert for monitoring of network devices over a WLAN using a PDA. PDAlert is currently designed to operate with Pocket PCs but the company stated that a Palm version is planned as well. The software enables sysadmins to gather information about the current status of devices […]

San Francisco Bay Area start-up WiFi Metro, Inc. today announced the official launch of its 802.11-based wireless network. The network currently consists of over 40 locations, or hotspots, where subscribers with Wi-Fi-enabled laptops and PDAs can tap into the data stream. WiFi Metro, Inc. is being incubated by VC firm ComVentures and relies on hereUare […]

Two industry groups involved in WLAN standards evolution, the OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) Forum and ATIS (Alliance for Telecommunications Standards), announced today that they have signed a Cooperation Agreement. This agreement is designed to formalize the collaboration facilitating industry understanding of OFDM technology and issues facing OFDM standardization. OFDM is a modulation scheme used […]

Intersil Corporation today announced the industry’s first chip set designed to support the IEEE 802.11g draft standard. The Intersil PRISM GT chip set, operating in the 2.4 Ghz band, will enable data transmission speeds of up to 54 Mbps with backwards compatibility to 802.11b infrastructures. This news comes roughly two and a half months after […]

Vernier Networks, Inc. announced today that it has enhanced its original WLAN management products, released in September 2001, to include support for three widely used security mechanisms: PPTP, IPsec, and L2TP/IPsec. These security mechanisms operate at Layer 3 of the OSI model and offer increased secuirty over WEP, a Layer 2 protocol. Vernier Networks System […]

Intel and Swedish application-provisioning company Appear Networks today announced the showcasing of their joint technology enabling media-rich applications to be implemented over a WLAN. The technology, which includes messaging applications, navigation applications, and rich-media games, will be demonstrated over a wireless LAN at the Intel Wireless Competence Center in Kista, Sweden. The demonstration is designed […]