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FierceWiFi September 14, 2005
- 802.16e to be ratified before end of month
- Cisco challenges Symbol in RFID arena
- Fractus shows fractal UWB antenna
- Ember to ship industry's lowest-power ZigBee platform
- picoChip expands Asian collaboration
- SPOTLIGHT: Strapping WiFi detector
- ALSO NOTED: Airgo samples new chipset; Cedar Rapids, Seattle buses use WiFi; and much more...
802.16e to be ratified before end of month
It is here. The final version of 802.16e will likely be ratified by the end of September, prompting an acceleration of the development of mobile WiMax products and services. Fixed WiMax products, based on 802.16-2004, are already being deployed, and will be launched on a broader scale during the first half of 2006. Interoperability testing has been delayed by several weeks to iron out a few wrinkles, and the commercial launch next year will have the benefit of customers being assured of …
Cisco challenges Symbol in RFID arena
Another front has opened in the competition between Cisco and Symbol -- now in the RFID arena. These two giants of the enterprise WLAN will now compete in a field in which Symbol had made all the early moves, and where RFID readers and related infrastructure are an integral part of its core business.
The immediate challenge will come in the form of the suite of hardware and software Cisco will be offering under the somewhat cumbersome name Intelligent Foundation for Radio …
Fractus shows fractal UWB antenna
Joan Maragall called Barcelona "la gran encisera," and she was right. Now, Barcelona-based Fractus, an antenna technology innovator -- and fractal antennas pioneer -- is showing a UWB antenna for the short-range wireless market. People like it, and some of the leading UWB chip companies have already evaluated the fractal antenna and plan to offer it as an option to their customers. The device is called the UWB Media+ Chip Antenna, and it complies with the requirements of …
Ember to ship industry's lowest-power ZigBee platform
You do not need much power to operate a ZigBee platform, but now you will need even less -- to be precise, 10 times less. Boston-based Ember next month will begin shipping what it claims to be the industry's lowest power ZigBee networking platform, which it had developed jointly with Texas Instruments. ZigBee is used for remote monitoring, control, and sensor network applications at home and in business. A growing market for ZigBee is the homeland security sector. The new platform is now …
picoChip expands Asian collaboration
If you want to have a good grasp of the underlying trends in the industry, you could do worse than keep an eye on picoChip, an innovative wireless solutions provider from Bath, England. I look at them and see three things: WiMax, software-defined radio, and Asia. (I can hear company's officials insisting: "And 3G/UMTS, too.") picoChip has just entered a development partnership with South Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) to work on software-defined radio …
SPOTLIGHT: Strapping WiFi detector
What with all the digital devices one has to carry these days, it is good to come across an idea which makes it possible to lighten the load. It sounds a bit off, but it is eminently doable: embed a passive WiFi detector into the strap of your laptop carrying case or backpack. Discussion
ALSO NOTED: Airgo samples new chipset; Cedar Rapids, Seattle buses use WiFi; and much more...
> WLAN chip startup Airgo is sampling its third-generation chipset, which will reach peak data transfer rates of 240 Mbps and offer average throughput of around 120 Mbps. Release
> Wireless startup Video54 is changing its name to Ruckus Wireless and putting in the bank the $9 million it has just received from VCs. Report
> The …