Orange, a large cellular carrier in Europe and subsidiary of France Telecom, has begun a technical and marketing trial of the IPWireless UMTS TDD (TD-CDMA) system, in Lille, France. It will be used to test enterprise high data rate services.
The IPWireless system uses UMTS (cellular) frequency, but [...]
Nancy Gohring, editor of WiMaxNetNews reports on a couple of new pre-WiMax installations. The first is Golden Wireless in Petersburg, Russia. The network uses AirSpan 4020 units which are based on CDMA technology and operate at 3.5 GHz.
The second is AfriConnect in Zambia. They are offering a [...]
Unstrung reports that progress on the new IEEE standard for mesh networking — dubbed IEEE 802.11s — is now well underway.
Wireless LAN Standards
802.11
The original WLAN Standard. Supports 1 Mbps to 2 Mbps.
802.11a
High speed WLAN standard for 5 GHz band. Supports 54 Mbps.
802.11b
WLAN standard for 2.4 GHz band. Supports 11 Mbps.
802.11d
International roaming [...]
Here’s a story that exclaims WiMax is over hyped in TV Technology. This “news” has all the novelty of “dog bites man”.
But WiMax (or more precisely “pre-WiMax”), is not all hype. The technology is delivering real-world solutions. Today.
No, WiMax won’t deliver ubiquitous [...]
Do it yourself security like WEP and WPA-Personal doesn t cut it in today s world. A better solution is 802.1x (and 802.11i), where the data between your device, the access point and server is encrypted all the way and authenticated both ways. It prevents exploitations like “the evil twin” where hackers disrupt [...]
Steve Stroh is attending the Freedom To Connect, David Isenberg’s conference March 30 and 31 in Washington DC. F2C is dedicated to the proposition that strong networks build strong democracies.
At F2C, communications policy wonks meet networking geeks and discuss network economics, applications, construction and operation. Stroh says the [...]
Unstrung reports that Airspan Networks is set to close a $8.7 million acquisition of VOIP softswitch vendor ArelNet by the end of May. According to Unstrung, Airspan hopes the acquisition will enable it to support 802.16 voice services.
Airspan today announced it has signed a definitive purchase agreement [...]
AirCell will begin conducting flight demonstrations of its aircraft-to-ground link this July. Personal mobile phones and other wireless devices will connect with terrestrial relays. Aircell demonstrated 300 to 500 kbps last summer, with peak rates up to 2.4 megabits per second.
Targeted for commercial deployment in 2006, the AirCell Broadband [...]
I wonder if public hotspots will be a curse.
We’re so immersed and connected — right now — who’s to say public hotspots won’t make things worse. Exacerbating our tensions and divisions, making our lives less engaged, less expansive, less enriched.
A positive outcome is [...]
The Buffalo News is reporting that Buffalo (NY) is considering the creation of a giant Wi-Fi hotzone downtown and in surrounding areas. Buffalo wants to attract businesses and bridge the digital divide, according the the article.
MuniWireless has more
The expansion idea hit a snag [...]
