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AT&T uses WiMAX, satellite to expand service
Time was when the terms "AT&T" and "telephony" were synonymous. Changes in the communication regulatory climate, the rise of able competitors, quite a few missteps on the wireless front, and this is no longer the case. AT&T is not exactly a shadow of its former self, but it is not its former self for sure. The recent merger between AT&T and SBC should help revive the company's flagging fortunes, so we should listen to what its leaders say. The other day, speaking at the …
Trend: Bonded wireless for back haul
Meru is a company which likes to make news. At last year's Interop it offered "single channel WLANs" (together with Extricom). This year, the big new idea seems to be wireless backbones--systems in which wireless links push the wires one step further back toward the wiring closet. And, yes, Meru is pushing it with a system which bonds channels to make a 100 Mbps back haul from APs to distribution switches. Not only Meru: Xirrus also talked of a bonded back haul for enterprise WLANs, in …
Biometric access control for WLANs
Not so strange bedfellows: WiFi and Biometrics. Silex technology america is releasing its Bio-NetGuard, an industry-first fingerprint-based access control system for WLANs. More and more governments and corporations use biometric information for identity authentication and access control, and we should thus not be surprised that technology is being brought to control access to wireless networks. "Today's workforce is becoming increasingly more dependent on mobility, which increases …
Symbol shows new Wi-NG platform
The late Cyrus Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, titled his autobiography A Long Row of Candles. The author of the history of the wireless age may want to call his book A Long Row of Acronyms. There is another one yet: Symbol Technologies is gearing up to launch its Wi-NG (for Wireless Next Generation) platform. The new radio frequency switches planned will consolidate technologies such as 802.11, 802.16, passive RFID, mesh networks, EV-DO and …
on the prowl
More and more mobile operators are viewing 's wireless move with anxiety. The search engine behemoth is set the begin offering free wireless connection, supported by location-based advertising in major U.S. cities. Market research firm Visiongain says this and more in a just-published study. Another finding in the report is that is set to become a major player in the mobile search market, continuing its current strategy of partnerships with operators and …
SPOTLIGHT: Viva Fractus
More than a year ago we wrote about the innovative Barcelona-based company Fractus and its fractal antenna technology. Good to see others noticed, too. Red Herring has just recognized Fractus as one of the most innovative technology companies of 2006. The magazine has included the company in its top 100 private companies in Europe and the Middle East. The company already has several contracts: Siemens sells its base station antennas, Samsung uses its handset antennas, …
ALSO NOTED: MediaRing launches WiMAX in Cambodia; Bulgaria orders halt to WiMAX licenses; and much more...
> MediaRing launches WiMAX service in Cambodia. Release
> Bulgaria's top court has ordered a halt to awarding WiMAX licenses in the country as complaints about favoritism mount. Report
And Finally... Share the wealth: Intel will expand its effort to provide …