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FierceWiFi June 20, 2006
- WiMAX distance record set
- World Cup home to the world's biggest network
- Aruba-Juniper in enterprise WiFi deal
- Maker of world's smallest WiFi chip receives funding
- New Zealand town launches hot spots at pay phones
- SPOTLIGHT: In defense of the realm
- ALSO NOTED: First also noted headline; second headline; and much more...
WiMAX distance record set
Going the distance. WiMAX Telecom Group, the only multinational operator of WiMAX services in Europe, transmitted live pictures of the World Sailing Championships on the Neusiedlersee in Austria through its wireless broadband Internet connection. Why is this important? Because this sets a new record transmitting live video at ranges of up to 40 kilometers and from moving vessel to WiMAX Telecom in extending its network in the coastal region of Croatia. This news should be of interest not …
World Cup home to the world's biggest network
"Púrpura y oro: bandera inmortal;/ en tus colores, juntas, carne y alma están" -- did you know that La Marcha Real, Spain's national anthem, is on of the very few national anthems that has no words? Though the Marcha Real has no lyrics, lyrics have been written and used for it during Spain's long history, and the words above ("Purple and gold...") are from a version used during the reign of Alfonso XIII. Why this lesson in Spanish history? Because I predict …
Aruba-Juniper in enterprise WiFi deal
Good to see a partnership between the old and the new, or the big and the small: WLAN switch start-up Aruba Networks has entered into a partnership deal with networking big hitter Juniper Networks to sell WiFi security equipment to customers in the enterprise. Aruba's marketing VP, Keerti Melkote, told Unstrung that that the deal builds on Aruba's long association with security software provider Funk (Juniper acquired Funk last November for $122 million)
The agreement …
Maker of world's smallest WiFi chip receives funding
Small is beautiful -- and useful. Swedish company Nanoradio has completed an $11.5 million round B financing which will allow it to accelerate production of its first-generation, low-power WiFi chip set solution, called NRX700. The NRX700 is a modest chip: In addition to being the least power-hungry WiFi chip (at +18 dBm RF output only 130mA, during receive mode 53 mA, and in standby 0,05mA), it is also the world's smallest, with a total die size of only 20mm2. The sheer smallness and …
New Zealand town launches hot spots at pay phones
You knew it would come one day. Paraparaumu, New Zealand residents can now access the Internet at high speed with the installation of a new Telecom wireless hot spot at a local Telecom Payphone. Anyone with a WiFi enabled device in the public areas near the payphone can go online at broadband speed without the need for a cable or phone jack.
National Payphone Manager Lisa Wright said the Paraparaumu Telecom payphone is one of the first payphones in New Zealand to be WiFi enabled. …
SPOTLIGHT: In defense of the realm
The U.S. Defense Department has gone back and forth for two years now over what to include in the scope of a modified wireless policy and how to coordinate implementation across the services and agencies. Finally, two weeks ago, DoD CIO John Grimes approved a memorandum aimed at boosting security on WLANs connected to the Global Information Grid. The supplemental policy requires that 802.11i be used for WLANs and devices, and technologies which can store, process, or transmit unclassified …
ALSO NOTED: First also noted headline; second headline; and much more...
> SkyPilot Networks and MetroWiFi will collaborate on building out a wireless network in Foster City, California. Santa Clara-based SkyPilot, a provider of carrier-class broadband wireless mesh networks, and Mountain View-based MetroFi have already collaborated on eight muni-WiFi networks. Report.
> RSan Mateo, California-based real-time locating systems (RTLS) provider AeroScout …