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Archive for February, 2004

Police Use Vivato

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2004

Salida, Colorado has deployed a single Vivato 2.4 GHz Outdoor Wi-Fi Switch that covers the entire downtown area of this popular tourist destination. The Salida Police Department will use the wireless cloud with laptop computers in patrol cars among other applications. Vivato’s flat-panel 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi Switch covers a [...]

Skype Review

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2004

Broadband Reports has a Skype review.
I had a chance to play around with Skype this week, and came away impressed. Skype is another “internet phone” product for PCs but with a few key differences. Skype boasts it has been downloaded over 7 million times, and as of [...]

T-Mobile Integrating Wi-Fi/Cell service

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2004

T-Mobile’s will offer an integrated Wi-Fi/cell data service during the first quarter. The company will sell data cards for laptop users who will be connected to the highest speed network available. Speaking in a press conference at the 3GSM congress in Cannes, T-Mobile Chief Executive Rene Obermann said, “We [...]

WISP Management Software

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2004

ISP Planet reports that one of the oldest WISPs is building a WISP management software product
Neil Mulholland, co-founder of Prairie iNet, one of the largest and most successful WISPs in the country it grew from zero to over 4,000 subscribers in 120 rural and small-town markets in [...]

Sweet 16 Announcements

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2004

Wavesat, a developer of OFDM Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) silicon solutions, today announced that it has signed a cooperative agreement with China Electronics System Engineering Corp. (CESEC) of Beijing, China, for the development of next-generation Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) systems. CESEC is a large-scale Chinese Communication Equipment Manufacturer. [...]

D-Link + Airespace = WiFi Switch

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2004

Tom’s Networking reports that D-Link and Airespace today announced an agreement to co-develop a new enterprise-class access point which will support the emerging Lightweight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP). The new D-Link AP will interoperate with Airespace’s 4000 WLAN Switch, 4100 WLAN Appliance and any other WLAN controller [...]

Qwest’s No Voice DSL

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2004

As Broadband Reports indicated last week, Qwest has announced it now has a DSL without voice option. From Saturday, existing customers will no longer be required to pay $14.95 for a telephone line. The fourth biggest U.S. local telephone company and the dominant provider in 14 states from Minnesota [...]

Lost in Translation

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2004

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has demanded that the Chinese government abandon plans to impose a proprietary WLAN security standard. The Wired Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI), was developed by the Chinese over concerns that existing WLAN security standards were insufficiently strong. The Chinese WAPI standard will be mandated [...]

Intel Phone

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2004

Wait ’til next year, says Intel’s Paul Otellini, who promised delegates at 3GSM that Intel will have a phone that will save 3G, with integrated Wi-Fi and a two megapixel camera in 2005. Otellini, Intel’s chief operating officer, had a keynote in Cannes where he focused on a wide range [...]

Urban Meshed Warrior

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2004

PacketHop, a spinoff of SRI, today announced that the company has completed a multi-agency, interoperable communications exercise led by the Golden Gate Safety Network (GGSN) — a coalition of federal, state and local Bay Area public safety agencies. Under the leadership of the California Office of Emergency Services, PacketHop’s mesh networking enabled instantaneous [...]