Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Price: $3,750, ten-user system Looking for a way to turn your Pocket PC into a cell phone? Well, TeleSym’s SymPhone is not the solution for you. But, it you want a way to turn all the Pocket PC units deployed in your business into useful Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phones for internal use, the […]

Model: DWL-6000AP ($299.99) If you’re waiting for a single wireless standard to rise up and make your WLAN life easier–forget about it. In 2003, you’ll face choices between 802.11a, b, b+, and various flavors of 802.11g (depending on the chips used by either Texas Instruments, Intersil, or Broadcom, so far). No, there will be no […]

Models: CardBus Card: WE120P ($99) USB LAN Adapter: WU250 ($179) What’s that you say? You want a single brand name 802.11b network interface card (NIC) for all your laptop, PC and PDA needs? And ones that can handle USB and PCI? 32-bit CardBus or 16-bit PC Card? Well, my friend, look no further because Hawking […]

Remember the early days of cell phones? When you could hope you’d make a connection at any major business hotel or conference center, but you couldn’t be sure? Fast forward to Fall Comdex 2002 in Las Vegas and welcome to the current state of public Wi-Fi LANs. While only a shadow of its former self, […]

Model: WA739P ($359.99) Whether you’ve got a wireless office that just needs a wireless print server or you have a SOHO that needs a wireless access point and print server all in one, Hawking Technology has a deal for you with their Wireless 11M 3 Port Print Server or AP (WA739P). It works well and […]

Las Vegas, NV — Draft 802.11g chip sets are already getting tested out in the field. We’ll see 802.11g NICs and access points by the first quarter of 2003, but Intersil’s optional Complementary Code Keying-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (CCK-OFDM) mode won’t be inside them. According to company representatives at Fall Comdex in Las Vegas, Intersil […]

For years, broadcast wireless networking was limited to practical speeds of less than 11Mbps. Now, with the advent of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) , wireless standards like IEEE 802.11a and 802.11g are moving the real-world wireless LAN speed limit to 50Mbps and beyond. It’s not just WLANs; vendors like Flarion and NextNet Wireless are […]

If there’s one constant in life, whether it’s fast horses, powerful cars, or wireless networking, it’s that we all want more speed. Which is why, Texas Instruments (TI) has been trying to put its 22Mbs version of IEEE 802.11b (sometimes called 802.11b+) technology using Packet Binary Convolutional Code (PBCC) since May 14, 2001. Now, over […]

Want to have an argument? Get a dozen people who care about the future of 802.11 networking and ask them about 802.1g’s prospects and watch the fur fly and the fun begin. On one side, you have people like Chris Preimesberger, wireless analyst for Evans Data who observes that, "Because the 802.11g processor uses all […]

It’s fast, it’s hot, but does it have a place in the market? That’s what some retailers, resellers and CIOs are asking about 802.11a. No one doubts that 802.11a, with its top data throughput rate of 54Mbps–with up to 72Mbps or 108Mbps possible if you use one of a variety of proprietary and non-standard double-speed […]