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FierceWiFi October 26, 2005
- Cisco to announce mesh product
- Dust shows mesh sensor network architecture
- New wireless protocol for public transport network
- Aruba unveils portable business LAN
- Metric: VoWLAN use to triple by 2007
- SPOTLIGHT: Deja vu all over again
- ALSO NOTED: picoChip, Wintegra to develop reference designs for WiMax basestations; Telecom New Zealand's prepaid WiFi hotspots
Cisco to announce mesh product
Cisco is about to launch its first WLAN mesh solution next month. Airespace, which Cisco acquired for $450 million last December, had planned on bringing out a two-radio mesh product in March, so Cisco's mesh plans are not exactly a surprise. Hints--but only hints--about the product may be gleaned from the fact that Metricom's Bob Friday now works for Cisco. At Metricom he developed the first metro-scale mesh system. For our nostalgia buffs, Metricom was known for two things: It pioneered …
Dust shows mesh sensor network architecture
Wireless sensor networks are gaining in popularity in government and industry and are being used more and more in inventory tracking and control and industrial and building monitoring. There are, however, problems with the reliability and performance of sensor networks. Hayward, CA-based Dust Networks says it has solved many of these problem with a new mesh platform.
Rob Conant, Dust's co-founder, said that frequency hopping is the best approach for wireless networks in industrial …
New wireless protocol for public transport network
A new intelligent wireless protocol for public transportation networks is being developed by researchers at the University of New South Wales, Australia. When deployed, the new protocol will allow passengers on busses and trains cheaper and less power-hungry WiFi connections. The new protocol is called OCEAN (On-board Communication Entertainment and Information), and it will be embedded in chips placed on board buses and trains. In effect, the vehicle itself will then become a …
Aruba unveils portable business LAN
Aruba Networks is shipping its Mobile Edge, a portable WLAN AP which will allow business travelers to plug in a bubble of corporate WLAN wherever they are. Aruba's Keerti Melkote posited Aruba's solution as an alternative to Cisco's effort to sell upgrades to the network for the purpose of supporting wireless, security, and VoIP. Aruba's approach is different: "Mobility, security and VoIP are all at layers 4 to 7 of the network model, so they can be delivered as an …
Metric: VoWLAN use to triple by 2007
Use of VoWLAN will triple by 2007, according to a new study by London-based Infonetics Research. Currently about 10 percent of organizations have VoWLAN, and this number will increase to 31 percent in the next two years. The growing availability of VoIP handsets will provide the main impetus for this growth. A few weeks ago the Economist predicted that IP telephony will bring about the end of traditional telephony. Infonetics' Richard Webb agrees: "The traditional model of …
SPOTLIGHT: Deja vu all over again
As Yogi Berra said, "It is deja vu all over again." Anaheim, CA, is mulling a proposal to offer a 20-year franchise to EarthLink for broadband wireless services covering all 50 sq.mi. of the city. EarthLink is being considered as the preferred provider following the city's issue of a nationwide request for proposals to build such a network. The proposal calls for EarthLink to receive an exclusive franchise to mount, install, operate and maintain its equipment in areas approved by …
ALSO NOTED: picoChip, Wintegra to develop reference designs for WiMax basestations; Telecom New Zealand's prepaid WiFi hotspots
> picoChip and Wintegra announced joint development of reference designs for a new generation of WiMax basestations (BS). Report
> Telecom New Zealand will deploy prepaid WiFi hotspots service. Report
> Madison, WI, to install city-wide WiFi network. …