Adopting a “white spaces” vision, Google is resurrected the 700 MHz band this week with a letter to the FCC presenting its plans to provide wireless Internet access to the entire U.S. (FCC pdf).
Google and other technology companies including Intel, Philips and Microsoft have pressed the FCC to open up the unused TV airwaves [...]
Government Computer News reports that organizers of the Internet Engineering Task Force’s 71st meeting, last week in Philadelphia, temporarily pulled the plug on all Internet access at the event. The organizers then offered only wireless Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6 - Wikipedia) for a few hours.
The IETF wanted to demonstrate to the attendees, as well [...]
The March 2008 IEEE 802 Plenary Session (pdf), being held at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida, March 16-21, has elected a new Chairman (Bruce Kraemer, right) and two new Vice Chairmen (Adrian Stevens and Jon Rosdahl).
The IEEE Executive Committee is expected to make it official by this Friday.
Stuart Kerry, the [...]
The 3.65 GHz [semi] licensed band that the FCC enacted last summer, may provide a real opportunity to provide broadband wireless, especially in rural areas. It is “lightly” licensed with WiMAX gear available from several providers.
Alzustar is planning to use 3.65 GHz in some of their municipal wireless projects using equipment from Airspan and [...]
The March 2008 IEEE 802 Plenary Session (pdf) is being held at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida, March 16-21, 2008.
This is a full 802 Plenary meeting, bringing together 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.22 and a boatload of other 802.11 standards together under one roof.
Among the items on the agenda is the election of a [...]
Companies rarely use 802.1x and thus leave the door open for hackers, according to Robert Lamprecht, IT advisory supervisor at KPMG.
“With 802.1x, unauthorized users can’t get access to your network. Without it, you are vulnerable to people who can come in and steal information,” said Lamprecht, who spoke at the European Computer Audit Control and [...]
CES 2008 featured many new Home Networking products with high-speed 802.11n leading the charge. Some of the Home Networking and Wireless announcements included;
D-Link announced a new media player, the D-Link PC-on-TV (DPG-1200) box which enables your TV to play any content from any media player your PC might support.
The DPG-1200 ($199.99), frees the user from [...]
Airspan Networks, announced today that it had obtained FCC certification to market its HiperMAX base station in the 3.65GHz band in the United States. It’s the first of a series of products planned for this band, says the company, which will include their MicroMAX, a compact base station, and several subscriber devices including the EasyST [...]
Intel has developed a test chip for software defined radio that can handle Wi-Fi, WiMAX and DVB-H digital TV in one chip, reports Electronics Weekly.
It would allow users to access the WiFi network in the home, automatically handover to a WiMAX network when you leave the house and also access digital TV on the move, [...]
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU-R) has included WiMAX technology (doc) in the official IMT-2000 set of global telecommunications standards. The decision puts WiMAX on par with other ITU standards such as W-CDMA, CDMA-2000, and TD-SCDMA and escalates opportunities for global deployment.
With WiMax now a part of the IMT-2000 family of 3G standards, operators [...]
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