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Archive for February, 2005

Firetide Adds New Gear

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 28th, 2005

Firetide, a leader in wireless mesh networking, today announced the HotPort high performance mesh network. The HotPort system allows standard voice, video and data applications to operate both indoors and outdoors over a high capacity wireless mesh backbone. It includes a new hardware platform, new mesh management software and advanced networking features. The HotPort mesh [...]

Vyyo Adds 700Mhz Modem

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 28th, 2005

Vyyo today announced the introduction of the first integrated 700 MHz modem for broadband wireless deployments. Vyyo’s V284 modem (pdf), designed for simple home installation by consumers, allows service providers to deploy high-speed wireless broadband data and voice services in large scale without expensive truck rolls or extensive RF engineering. The V284 provides coverage inside [...]

The 700 Mhz Club

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2005

DailyWireless: Attention everyone. Attention please. The 700 Mhz Advancement Coalition has come to order. Our first order of business tonight is a guest speaker, the highly regarded Steve Stroh, who has news on recent developments on the 700 Mhz band. Steve? Steve Stroh: On February 18, 2005, buried in the typical minutiae of the FCC’s [...]

News You Can Rollup

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2005

Fujitsu Laboratories has succesfully made a prototype electronic paper which is comparable to regular copy paper in brightness and thickness. Fujitsu hopes to have the paper in regular production by 2006. Several characteristics of the paper have been developed; ease of reading, ease of portability, durability and improved brightness and contrast of the paper. The [...]

The Battle of Lafayette

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2005

Broadband Reports has news on the Muni battle in Lafayette, Louisiana: The city of Lafayette, Louisiana is trying to get a triple play fiber-optic network off the ground, despite legal opposition from Cox and BellSouth (USAToday has an excellent primer on the fight). Bellsouth has now informed the city that if they move forward with [...]

Kevin Sites’ Blog

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2005

Xeni Jardin has the inside story on Kevin Sites Blog: Exactly two years ago today, I emailed Kevin Sites to ask if he’d ever considered doing a blog. My friend John Parres had been forwarding me copies of Kevin’s incredible first-person accounts of life as a front line war reporter for CNN, which he’d been [...]