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FierceWiFi March 22, 2006
- WiMAX arrives in London
- WiMAX Watch: Clearwire amassing funds
- Kiwi telecom, iPass ink secure network deal
- Wireless mesh routers to hit $1.2B by 2010
- Ekahau, Digi team on wireless tracking system
- SPOTLIGHT: Unsafe at any speed
- ALSO NOTED: D-Link clamshell WiFi VoIP phone; 802.11n still faces hurdles; and much more...
WiMAX arrives in London
Urban WiMAX is offering what it calls "the U.K.'s first true WiMAX services"--for free. The "free" in "free service" applies to yet another WiMAX trial period, but this trial is more advanced than other WiMAX trials now being conducted in the U.K. by Libera in London, Telabria in Kent, Pipex in Stratford and Metranet in Brighton. Urban WiMAX says the difference lies in the fact that the trial is based on 802.16d standard kit, not on pre-WiMAX, and that there will be a …
WiMAX Watch: Clearwire amassing funds
If you know nothing about wireless communication and want one sentence of advice on how to discern where the industry is heading, I would suggest this: Follow Craig McCaw. McCaw's Clearwire has about $1 billion in funds to build its own WiMAX network, and the company is eager to acquire spectrum and build new markets. The company now has but limited access to the 2.5 GHz licensed spectrum because Sprint owns or leases licenses covering 85 percent of the U.S. population. Ben Wolff, …
Kiwi telecom, iPass ink secure network deal
This is important news for business travelers and the companies which employ them. Telecom New Zealand has signed an agreement with iPass to launch Telecom Office Anywhere, a service which would allow users to access their company networks and files securely from New Zealand and more than 160 countries. Telecom Office Anywhere provides users with access to their company networks and applications from their PC or laptop anyway they wish by using WiFi, broadband or dial-up on Telecom's 3G …
Wireless mesh routers to hit $1.2B by 2010
More than 1 million wireless mesh routers, generating revenues of more than $1.2 billion, will be shipped in 2010 to service muni-WiFi networks, market research group ABI Research concludes. By 2010, municipal WiFi networks will cover 126,000 sq.mi. worldwide, which is an increase from about 1,500 sq.mi. in 2005, ABI says. The growth of municipal WiFi is being driven by several trends, among them use of the wireless networks for public safety and increased efficiency. In addition, …
Ekahau, Digi team on wireless tracking system
The recent West Virginia mining tragedy only serves to highlight the importance of the product to come out of the collaborative effort between Ekahau and Digi International. The companies will work on embedding Ekahau's location-enabling technology in the Digi Connect family of WLAN embedded modules and external device server products. The Digi Connect 802.11b WLAN products provide wireless connectivity to a wide range of edge devices such as medical equipment in healthcare facilities. …
SPOTLIGHT: Unsafe at any speed
A wardriving survey carried out internationally by PandaLabs has thrown up worrisome results: Almost 60 percent of networks have no protection at all. The conclusions of the study are clear: Security of WiFi networks is, in general, insufficient. The most widely used protocol for the security of the network, WEP, has many vulnerabilities, but the most effective protocols, such as WPA or WPA-PSK, are hardly used at all. PandaLabs was able to verify this circumstance through a series of …
ALSO NOTED: D-Link clamshell WiFi VoIP phone; 802.11n still faces hurdles; and much more...
> D-Link shows clamshell WiFi VoIP phone. Report
> The new Nokia 9300i smartphone also offers WiFi, but this reviewer finds that the promised Internet connection does not live up to expectations. Review
> 802.11n is promoted as the key to sharing high-quality multimedia …