Last night at Portland’s PersonalTelco Meeting, Tom Higgins (no relation to Tim Higgins), demonstrated the open source Our Tunes project. It puts podcasts and music on PTP hotspots. The open source software is hosted locally so music and podcasts can be downloaded — fast and free.
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In related news, LinksysInfo has more on the WRTSL54GS Wireless-G Media Storage Links Router. It supports USB 2.0 supporting USB Hard Drives and flash media. With Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) and AV Media Server, this baby could make some noise. UPnP media adapters instantly recognize and play your media without need for a computer. WiFi Planet reviews the OpenWRT project which lets you modify the Linksys WRT-54G/GS with Linux software to create your own splash page.
Tim Higgins says the Linksys WAP54GPE Wireless-G Exterior Access Point, still unannounced, appears in the Wireless Basic Networking section next to the WCG200 Wireless-G Cable Modem Gateway.
It’s an 802.11b/g access point housed in a weatherproofed, heated enclosure and powered via 802.3af Power over Ethernet.
According to the User Manual available on the FCC website, it supports up to 8 wireless Virtual LANs (VLANs) as well as WDS-based wireless bridging. If you choose to not use the built-in patch-style antenna, you can attach a single external antenna via single male N-type connector on the top.
The GPE uses an Intel-based design, more similar to the unannounced WAP54GP than the standard Broadcom-based WAP54G, says Higgins.
Bridging and Repeating features are WDS-based, which means that you can’t use the GPE to link to just any 802.11b/g AP or wireless router. Instead, both ends of the wireless bridge must support WDS and you’ll need to enter the MAC address of the other end of the bridge on each unit.
The GPE can’t act as a wireless client, either, so forget about slapping it up on the outside wall of your apartment to grab the signal from a nearby open WLAN.
The single 10/100 Ethernet connector on the bottom panel provides connection to the user’s wired LAN and also brings in power from an 802.3af compliant PoE source.
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Intel’s new storage area network (SAN) product, the SSR212MA, is able to carry up to 12, 3.5-inch SATA hard drives for a maximum capacity of 6 TBytes.
Built into a 2U rack form factor, it comes with a 2.8 GHz Xeon processor, 1 MB of L2 cache, bays for up to 16 GByte of DDR2-400 memory and two Gbit Ethernet ports.
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