According to Broadband Week, capital funds are depressed for WISPs. Meanwhile vendors are producing cheaper and more effective wireless products. Ventures like CoMeta may provide new options for end users while government funding opportunities may exist for fixed wireless in rural areas. Unlike ISPs in large metropolitan [...]
Netgear is shipping their dual-band WAB102 Access Point using the Atheros AR 5100 802.11a chipset that outputs +17db mW at 5.8Ghz. The dual-band AP is available for about $225. NETGEAR also has a partnership with Wi-Fi Hot Spot network provider Boingo Wireless. Unfortunately, [...]
Sharp’s Zaurus PDA can soon make telephone calls over Wi-Fi networks in Japan. Sharp’s Linux-based PDA will use NTT DoCoMo’s 300 public WLANs. Voice access will be made using dedicated software and a headset. Before its formal launch next April, Sharp will offer a free trial to 1,000 owners of its Linux-powered [...]
Qwest Communications, announced today that the self-healing fiber ring connecting eastern Oregon communities served by Qwest is now complete and fully operational. The eastern Oregon ring is the third of five fiber rings currently under construction in the state of Oregon. SONET Rings provide redundancy for wide area telecommunications. [...]
Hand-helds playing multi-player games could be bigger than Christmas. Tom’s Hardware Guide has Everything There Is To Know About Xbox Live. But what kind of potential will multi-player games have? Pick a number. One hundred thousand? One million? Ten million subs? Will the market develop in Europe, [...]
City clouds, wireless parks, Wi-Fi hotels and coffee shops are being built. Others do it. Could you? Don’t ask me. Daily Wireless just surveys wireless literature. Here are two suggestions, anyway: List your requirements Write a plan. Basic requirements that [...]
Joel Barrett of the SoCal Wireless User Group posted an interesting note to the PersonalTelco List. He says: “If you want a really inexpensive spectrum analyzer for the 802.11b spectrum, 2.4 to 2.5ghz, do this: Get an old Proxim RangeLAN2 7400 FHSS card (yes, [...]
Senator George Allen, R-Va., and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., are readying a bill that would set aside 255MHz of new spectrum for WLAN hot spots. The New York Times reports that military officials say national security is at stake if the 5GHz band was expanded in the United [...]
iPass announced today a multi-year agreement to collaborate with roaming and security with Intel’s forthcoming Banias mobile technology. Intel is developing IP-based intelligent roaming capabilities to make it easier for mobile users to switch from wireless LANs to cellular WANs without any knowledge of underlying network protocols. Under the [...]
Vivato promises to re-write the economics of wide-area Wi-Fi networking. Vivato says their phased array can extend the range of a Wi-Fi network up to 3 miles. Their antenna arrays beam to ordinary 802.11b clients and can cover an entire office building (or several square miles) with one [...]
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