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Standards Battle at 60 GHz

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 4th, 2008

EE Times says two different wireless standards are in the works on the same 60-GHz spectrum. The two groups will meet later this month in an effort to avoid a fight during a major standards gathering in July.
The planned June 19 meeting likely will be one of the first volleys in a protracted battle to [...]

Wavion Beamforms Backhaul

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 3rd, 2008

Wavion, a Metro and Rural Wi-Fi vendor promoting beamforming, today announced the release of a new SW version supporting self-backhaul.

Wavion’s spatially adaptive base stations have been extended to provide self-backhaul to neighboring base stations using their beamforming technology that leverages six radios and antennas.
The company says the self-backhaul feature has been successfully tested by beta [...]

FCC: Free Broadband at 2155-2180 MHz

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 26th, 2008

The FCC is planning to auction 25 megahertz in the 2155-2180 MHz band to the highest bidder, reports RCR News. Chairman Martin said that a licensee winner of the 2155-2180 MHz spectrum (referred to as the AWS III band), would have to provide a free service tier, and would have to reach 50% of the [...]

Google Pitches White Spaces

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 22nd, 2008

Google co-founder Larry Page was in Washington Thursday (May 22) to promote the company’s “white space” proposal for soon-to-be-vacant television airwaves.
Page will meet with lawmakers in Congress and officials at the FCC hoping to convince them to allow the “white space” between television channels to be accessed by low-power wireless devices.
“I think it will make [...]

Proxim APs Go High Security

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 21st, 2008

Proxim Wireless, today announced the Tsunami MP.11 HS (High Security) line of base station units, subscriber units and bridges. The new products provide FIPS 140-2 level 2 compliant point-to-point and point-to-multipoint products in the 5.1-5.95 GHz, 4.9 GHz, 2.4 GHz, and 1.8 GHz frequency bands.
The Tsunami MP.11 HS product family is Proxim’s ultra-secure broadband [...]

Sensor Nets Launch

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 7th, 2008

The Internet Engineering Task Force has kicked off a new effort that could deliver a key building block for wireless sensor networks, says EE Times. The Routing Over Low-power and Lossy Networks (ROLL) group aims to define a standard for Internet Protocol as early as next summer.

Sensor networks may be the next big thing. Companies [...]

4G: War to End Wars

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 29th, 2008

The battle between Long Term Evolution and Mobile WiMAX may be escalating into a “4G” war, explains Unstrung.
The International Telecommunication Union, Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R), wants an “official” 4G standard. ITU defines “4G” as 100 Mbit/s (mobile) and 1 Gbit/s in hot spot areas with limited mobility. They call it IMT-Advanced and are looking for proposals.
Currently, [...]

Boatload of Enterprise “N”

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 21st, 2008

New 802.11n products were announced today by Aruba, Meru Networks, Ruckus Wireless, and newcomer Aerohive Networks, notes Unstrung.

Aruba’s new Mobile Remote Access Point (RAP) software allows one of its AP-70 access points to act as a cellular link. It does this with a 3G plug-in USB modem that’s been tested with AT&T Mobility, Sprint and [...]

Tim Higgins: New Thinking on Draft “N”

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 18th, 2008

Thinking of Upgrading to Draft 11n? Here’s What I’d Do…, suggests Tim Higgins, who is the widely acknowledged authority behind Small Net Builder

The bottom line is that I’m no longer recommending that you go for dual-band dual-radio products if you want to move now to draft 11n. The main reason is that the potential upside [...]

China Mobile Goes TD-SCDMA

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 28th, 2008

China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile carrier with over 376 million customers, announced that it will begin testing the country’s homegrown 3G standard — TD-SCDMA — next week. The carrier said it will issue 20,000 handsets and 5,000 data cards to select customers with free airtime. China Mobile will also offer an additional [...]