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FierceWiFi January 11, 2006
- IETF selects Cisco's LWAPP
- Trend: WiMax landscape comes into view
- Staccato shows single-chip, all-CMOS UWB solution
- New WiFi battle front: Airlines vs. airports
- U.K. Parliament mulls wireless connectivity
- SPOTLIGHT: Home life without wires around corner
- ALSO NOTED: Accton to show first WiFi VoIP phone; Nintendo to release WiFi version of Tetris; and much more...
IETF selects Cisco's LWAPP
Size matters, but then, perhaps it does not. Cisco's LWAPP (lightweight access point protocol) has been selected as the basis for a standard which will control WiFi APs in enterprise networks. We should use the word "control" carefully here because it is not clear how much sway this new standard will have. LWAPP was selected by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) which has been working for a while now on the CAPWAP (control and provisioning of wireless access points) protocol. As …
Trend: WiMax landscape comes into view
To paraphrase Henry Kissinger: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Similarly, a press release announcing a recent In-Stat study on the future of WiMax says that just because WiMax has been at the center of a lot of attention lately does not mean that it is all hype and no substance. Exactly.
To say that there have been exaggerations on both sides of the WiMax debate is true, but only as true as saying that both a jaywalker and Al Capone are law …
Staccato shows single-chip, all-CMOS UWB solution
UWB came on the scene with much fanfare, but the words "rousing success" would not be the first ones to leap to mind when trying to describe the technology's market success to date. Still, there is movement on the UWB front. Staccato Communications is introducing its Ripcord family of products. Ripcord is the industry's first true single-chip, all-CMOS solution based on the WiMedia Alliance's UWB common radio platform and the Certified Wireless USB specification from the USB Implementers …
New WiFi battle front: Airlines vs. airports
This may not be the equivalent of dumping tea into the harbor, but something is brewing in Boston which may have consequence nationwide. Authorities at Boston's Logan Airport continue their campaign to prohibit airlines in the airport from offering free WiFi in their lounges and VIP suites. The airport authority says it has nothing to do with money, but that it is rather an issue of public safety and management. The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), which charges a minimum of $7.95 …
U.K. Parliament mulls wireless connectivity
Owing to space problems, quite a few members of the U.K. Parliament (it is a matter of seniority) have their offices outside the Houses of Parliament in neighboring office buildings. This means that on a busy day of committee meetings and floor voting, an MP may be away from his or her office for most of the day. Now members of Parliament are demanding that wireless Internet access be installed throughout the Houses of Parliament to give them access to information while on the move …
SPOTLIGHT: Home life without wires around corner
Market research from iSuppli says that by 2009, about 155 million consumer electronics devices will be able to connect to wireless networks. Devicescape is not waiting, feeding its WiFi stack to consumer electronics giants such as Sharp. The latter used the WiFi stack to build a variety of Linux-based consumer electronics devices, including TVs, media adapters and personal video recorders (PVR). Devicescape says devices incorporating its WiFi stacks are easily connected and highly …
ALSO NOTED: Accton to show first WiFi VoIP phone; Nintendo to release WiFi version of Tetris; and much more...
> Taiwanese company Accton is set to show first WiFi VoIP phone. Article
> UTStarcom showed its new GSM/VoWiFi GF200 cell phone last week at CES in Las Vegas. Article
> Nintendo will release a WiFi version of Tetris DS, a reworked edition of the 1985 Soviet puzzle game. The WiFi version will add six new modes to Tetris' …