At CTIA Wireless® 2013, this week in Las Vegas, WiFi hot spots were the hot topic. Carriers are anxious to get the prime realestate in dense population areas, inside malls and offices. RCR Wireless lists the top providers of Wi-Fi offload solutions. With half of all IP traffic expected to be delivered over Wi-Fi within [...]
Portland indoor mapping startup Meridian has been sold to Aruba Networks for an undisclosed sum, reports the Oregonian today. Meridian helps people find their way within large buildings, such as malls, stadiums or airports, and enables marketing directed at a phone’s precise location. Aruba Networks is a wireless LAN vendor selling access points, mobility controllers, [...]
Engadgetreports a fleet of camera-equipped, remote-controlled blimps are live-streaming Google I/O on YouTube, right now, It’s called Google AirShow and it’s taken over the airspace within Moscone Center. Chris Miller, a software engineer with AKQA (Facebook), explained to Engadget they use an off-the-shelf model airship that’s flown manually via standard a 2.4GHz radio. Each blimp [...]
Ruckus Wireless today announced that it was selected by Telecom NZ, the national communications service supplier in New Zealand, to transform conventional payphones into outdoor Wi-Fi hotspots in locations across the country. Telecom’s initial pilot project, completed in less than 12 weeks, outfitted phone booths in holiday locations over this past Christmas in December 2012 [...]
WildPackets, a leading provider of network and application performance analysis solutions, today announced a wireless network analysis solution to operate on the most current 802.11 standards, including 802.11ac. Wildpackets says its Omni Distributed Analysis Platform 7.5, a packet analyzer, is the first to add support for 802.11ac access points. 802.11ac provides high-throughput WiFi on the [...]
Major League Baseball says it has signed a deal with Qualcomm to provide technology and engineering support to improve mobile networks at 30 Major League Baseball ballparks. Over the next two years, Qualcomm engineers will determine how best to build out access to WiFi, 3G and 4G networks. Presumably, they will use Hotspot 2.0 technology [...]
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