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FierceWiFi March 8, 2006
- China challenges Intel: WAPI vs. 802.11i fight resumes
- Alvarion, Tropos collaborate on muni-WiFi
- Analysis: Is WiFi a true alternative to cellular?
- Toronto to become Canada's largest hotzone
- WiMAX Watch: Intel Capital invests in 802.16e developer Beceem
- SPOTLIGHT: The WiFi revolution
- ALSO NOTED: T-Mobile hotspot promo; Tweaks improve 802.11g some; and much more...
China challenges Intel: WAPI vs. 802.11i fight resumes
There is a fight brewing between two forces of roughly equal strength: China and Intel. The Chinese government is actively seeking support from other nations to help break Intel's domination in the wireless broadband market. The way China wants to do it is to create a coalition of countries to support China's home-grown wired authentication and privacy infrastructure (WAPI) as an alternative to some aspects of WLANs. WAPI is a solution to the security loophole of the existing 802.11 …
Alvarion, Tropos collaborate on muni-WiFi
When two heavyweights join hands, we should take notice. Alvarion and Tropos Networks are collaborating on providing wireless broadband infrastructure for municipal networks. The effort combines Alvarion's BreezeACCESS wireless broadband systems for the 4.9 GHz band and 5 GHz band as backhaul support for Tropos' MetroMesh WiFi system in municipal networks. In this age of heightened awareness of security issues, it is important to note that BreezeACCESS products can also be used to provide …
Analysis: Is WiFi a true alternative to cellular?
WiFi's short range was its weak point from the start, until mesh networking came along. After the more serious security and quality problems of mesh technology were addressed, the technology became popular in campus-wide and metro-wide deployments. So much so, in fact, that WiFi providers have been touting the technology as an alternative to cellular, what with WiFi's lower monthly fees and higher bandwidth compared to cellular providers for services such as Internet access, VPN …
Toronto to become Canada's largest hotzone
Toronto Hydro Telecom announced plans to blanket downtown Toronto with wireless WiFi coverage, allowing laptops to log on to the Internet anywhere within the zone, from park benches to cars and cafeterias. The project will establish Canada's largest WiFi zone. Toronto Hydro Telecom, a subsidiary of Toronto Hydro, said it would install radio APs on streetlight poles throughout a 3.75-sq.-mi. area in the downtown core. The hotspot will be set up in stages, with the first phase bringing WiFi …
WiMAX Watch: Intel Capital invests in 802.16e developer Beceem
Santa Clara, CA-based Beceem Communications, a provider of chip sets for mobile WiMAX, has received a substantial investment from Intel Capital, the venture capital investment arm for Intel. The two companies will work together to strengthen mobile WiMAX. Shahin Hedayat, CEO and co-founder of Beceem, did not mince words. "This collaboration is aimed to accelerate the trial and deployment of mobile WiMAX networks and establish Mobile WiMAX as the highest performance, most spectrally …
SPOTLIGHT: The WiFi revolution
OK, so perhaps it is not as historically significant as the French Revolution, but it is still an important revolution. We are talking about the WiFi revolution, and Red Herring, the weekly dedicated to technology business mavens, dedicates the cover story of its forthcoming March 13 issue to what it describes as the WiFi revolution. It says that if anything keeps executives of old-line phone companies up at night, it is probably telecommunications upstarts like FON. The …
ALSO NOTED: T-Mobile hotspot promo; Tweaks improve 802.11g some; and much more...
> You want to have access at hotspots but are still hesitating because of the price? Thousands of T-Mobile HotSpots around the country will be offering their services for free during a limited promotion. Details
> Tweaks to 802.11g access points make them better but still not as fast as advertised. Review
> Broomfield, CO-based Sirenza …