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Clearwire offers WiMax in Belgium
Broadband wireless provider Clearwire has reached beyond the ocean by launching a commercial network in Belgium. The company has deployed a kit from NextNet Wireless which, the company says, currently offers coverage of 60 percent of Brussels and about 75 percent of Mont St. Guibert. The company is not releasing the number of subscribers it has attracted but says that it plans to expand the service throughout Belgium.
Clearwire uses a pre-WiMax kit in the 3.5GHz spectrum band and …
Solar-powered WiFi arrives
Small companies can make big waves. Lumin Innovative Products is a company with a staff of four with one big idea: Harnessing the power of the sun to power WiFi networks (one of the company's mottos: "Technology... Sourced by the sun, brought to earth by Lumin"). In mid-July this concept was put to the test when the company, then one month in existence, deployed its first solar-powered APs at the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado.
The company currently offers the LightWave …
Trend: 60GHz band beckons
More than 150 years ago, James Maxwell wrote his famous equations (see below), and 30 years later, in 1895, physicist J.C. Bose channeled 60GHz signals in his laboratory (you can still see the equipment he used, including a Victorian polarizer, at the Royal Institution in London). Why this walk down memory lane? Because with the no-end-in-sight stalemate in which UWB has been mired, inquiring minds are beginning to take a serious look at 60GHz.
Several companies are already …
Zeewaves shows mobile WiFi architecture
Colorado Springs, Colorado-based start-up Zeewaves Systems, already busy working with Nvidia on planar-antenna WiFi designs, has a new and intriguing offering: A mobile WiFi architecture which may combine vehicular hotspots with such functions as GPS, automatic vehicle location, and ZigBee sensor gateways. Zeewaves calls the commercial version of the system ConnectStar and also offers an extended architecture version with the clunky name of On-board Communication, Automated Tracking and …
Connexion, OnAir to offer in-flight cellular service
Boeing's Connexion and Airbus' OnAir are partnering with other companies to offer in-flight GSM and CDMA device usage. Connexion is working with Qualcomm, and the two companies have been testing cabin-fitted GSM and CDMA 2000 base stations with beam calls from the aircraft to the ground via satellite (the test base-stations are provided by UTStarcom). OnAir is working with software company TriaGnoSys and server maker Miltope to build a similar system, if currently only for GSM. OnAir will …
SPOTLIGHT: The Best Is Yet to Come
Improved security, notebooks with built-in WiFi, and an eventual boom in mobile VoIP will cause the enterprise WLAN market to more than double by 2009, according to Dell'Oro. WiFi adoption is growing beyond vertical industries such as healthcare, education, and retail. Enterprises in general are starting to invest in WiFi as the cost in client equipment declines and security and management headaches ease. The advance of built-in client gear in most notebook PCs has eliminated the cost of …
ALSO NOTED: Rise of the WiFi thug; Public access WLAN services in Asia; and much more...
> The rise of the WiFi thug -- read and beware. Story
> Public access WLAN services in Asia are now mostly provided by telcos and mobile operators; in North Asia, they are perceived as a value add for subscriber customers. Report
> …