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Archive for May, 2007

Wavesat 5.8 GHz WiMAX Card

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 30th, 2007

Wavesat today announced the immediate availability of its 5.8 GHz Mini-PCI WiMAX reference design (pdf). The 5.8 GHz Mini-PCI design is a development platform. The extended length Mini-PCI card allows equipment manufacturers to tailor the motherboard according to their specific needs. The 5.8 GHz Mini-PCI card allows developers to design WiMAX-compliant wireless devices for the [...]

Ubiquiti’s Open PowerStation

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 30th, 2007

Ubiquiti Networks today announced PowerStation, an open 802.11 product platform designed for the outdoor wireless community featuring Ubiquiti’s patented radio and antenna innovations. The PowerStation (pdf datasheet) features a powerful 400 mW radio with a built-in 18dBi antenna and (software) switchable polarity. It is designed to be cost-effective with flexible, open-software, and has gained software [...]

Nortel + Avaya?

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 30th, 2007

Nortel, Cisco and a private equity firm are all reported to be interested in a possible deal with the U.S. telecommunications equipment maker Nortel, reports RCR News. Mohammed Nakhooda, a spokesperson for Nortel, declined to comment on the report in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed sources. A merger between Nortel and Avaya would [...]

Globalstar Gets Four Replacements

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 30th, 2007

Globalstar announced today that a Russian Soyuz rocket has placed four Globalstar replacement satellites into low Earth orbit. The four satellites were manufactured at the same time as the original constellation by prime contractor Space Systems/Loral and kept on Earth as ground spares. Four more identical craft will be sent into space later this summer. [...]

WiFi Slurpr: 6 Links in 1

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 29th, 2007

Jar Jar: How wude! — The Phantom Menace Do you suffer from Poor WiFi Signal Performance? WiFi Planet explains that when you connect to a wireless network, you are connecting to a single access point (AP). But your laptop will roam to other APs with the same SSID, so you can continue to use the [...]

WiFi & WiMAX Will Dominate Machine-to-Machine

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 29th, 2007

“Municipal Wi-Fi and WiMAX will challenge 3G cellular technology in machine-to-machine communications for many applications and in many locales,” said Sam Lucero, a senior analyst at ABI Research and author of the report. Third-generation networks are expected to capture only 30 percent of the “M2M” communications market by 2012, predicts ABI Research. “Some think that [...]