Channels
Search
Resources
Editor
RSS
news
Michigan county deploys 802.16e network
In what Unstrung's Richard Martin rightly calls "one of the most significant WiMAX deployments to date," regional Midwest service provider Arialink Broadband says it will build out a broadband wireless network for all of Muskegon County, MI, using 802.16e equipment from Samsung. Muskegon County borders Lake Michigan. It is about 200 miles northeast of Chicago and 200 miles northwest west of Detroit. The network is a public-private partnership funded by a $2.2 million federal …
Clearwire launches VoIP over WiMAX network
One thing we know about Craig McCaw: He moves fast, and he moves with purpose. As of Monday, Clearwire's customers in Stockton, CA, are able to subscribe to a new service which will enable phone services over the Internet. Clearwire says it is the first widely deployed wireless broadband company to offer VoIP services in the U.S. Clearwire Internet Phone Service is a facilities-based phone service specifically designed for use over the Clearwire broadband network. The service was jointly …
Aruba prepares for IPO
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan described the mid-1990s dot.com period as an era of "irrational exuberance." There is something exuberant--but certainly nothing irrational--about Aruba Networks' near-term plans. The leading independent maker of corporate WLAN gear has reshuffled top management roles in preparation for a potential IPO. The Sunnyvale, CA-based company said president and CEO Don LeBeau would take over as chairman of the company and be replaced by Dominic Orr, …
The dark side of muni-WiFi, continued
Do we hear the sound of another shoe falling? A couple of weeks ago we wrote about the worries of privacy advocates that the "free" muni-WiFi which large companies now offer municipalities is anything but. It may be the case that consumers will not have to pay cash for the Internet connection being offered, but pay they will, in the form of loss of privacy and being bombarded by ads everywhere they go.
As details of 's plans for San Francisco emerge, privacy worries become …
802.11n rush underway
There was the Gold Rush, and now there is the 802.11n rush. Marvell has partnered with Netgear to bring out a chip set complying with the draft 802.11n standard. Until now, WiFi chip set leaders Airgo Networks and Broadcom have brought out MIMO-enhanced WiFi chip sets, but without an 802.11n draft standard, both have been obliged to market the chips as being compliant with 802.11a, b and g. Now, with the draft standard having been published in March, Marvell has jumped into the market …
SPOTLIGHT: Nifty technologies, unproven ROI
VoWiFi is a potentially more reliable, flexible and cheaper alternative to cellular networks for making wireless phone calls within buildings. Dual-mode handsets will even let someone pass from a WiFi network onto a cellular one without dropping a call. That could mean mobile workers will not need a desk phone, since a cell phone shifts to the office network once on campus. Nifty technologies, but how many businesses will see the pay-back to justify building out a WiFi infrastructure …
ALSO NOTED: Freescale pulls out of UWB Forum ; More hotels offering WiFi; and much more...
> Freescale Semiconductor is pulling out of the UWB Forum, which it co-founded with Motorola and Pulse-Link. The forum was founded in 2004 in an effort to rally support around Freescale's direct-sequence UWB signaling and to compete with what has now become the WiMedia Alliance. Report
> More and more hotels now offer WiFi service. Beware: Many hotel networks come with but rudimentary …