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FierceWiFi July 5, 2006
- BSkyB to offer free broadband
- Woosh, NZ government clash over WiMAX rollout
- Fujitsu shows mobile WiMAX SoC
- WiFi to grow by leaps and bounds in China
- Serious vulnerabilities in Cisco's WLANs
- SPOTLIGHT: City of WiFi
- ALSO NOTED: United to offer in-flight WiFi; New Orleans uses WiFi for storm prep; and much more...
BSkyB to offer free broadband
Rupert Murdoch's satellite broadcaster BSkyB is getting set to unveil its plan to offer free broadband to some of its U.K. customers on July 18. BSkyB indicated its interest in broadband last year, when it spent £211 million to acquire high-speed Internet provider Easynet. Easynet has been installing its own network equipment at BT exchanges, which means that, by December, Easynet will be in a position to offer service to about half the U.K. population.
"Unbundling will allow …
Woosh, NZ government clash over WiMAX rollout
Here is a story from a small corner of the world, but which, as WiMAX spreads, we may encounter more and more closer to our own precincts. Auckland, New Zealand-based operator Woosh wanted to roll out a WiMAX network in New Zealand. The company has acquired blocks of contiguous portions of the spectrum in the 2.3 GHz band, and has entered negotiations with companies which own other blocks in the spectrum, and now believes it is in a position to begin and offer WiMAX service to …
Fujitsu shows mobile WiMAX SoC
The inexorable march toward mobile WiMAX continues. Last week Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe used the occasion of the 2006 Wireless Communication Association conference in Washington, DC to show its mobile WiMAX system on chip (SoC) solution. The solution is 802.16-2005 compliant.
The company says the mobile WiMAX SoC features scalable 1024 fast fourier transform (FFT) OFDMA PHY and full MAC processors; adaptive modulation schemes which include 64QAM, 16QAM, QPSK, and BPSK; an …
WiFi to grow by leaps and bounds in China
During the next three years, the Chinese market for WiFi technology will likely grow four-fold, experiencing a 45 percent annual growth rate. A white paper written for the WiFi Alliance by Chinese market research group Analysys International says the growth will be driven by deeper penetration of broadband and falling prices of WiFi-enabled laptops. The market for APs, network cards and other non-embedded WiFi equipment will be worth about RMB 10 billion by 2008.
The white paper …
Serious vulnerabilities in Cisco's WLANs
Cisco has warned that the company's WLAN management applications suffer from several serious vulnerabilities, one of which allowing remote users to log to the network using the default administrator's password. The company listed six specific vulnerabilities and said it offers work-arounds to some but not all of them. The most serious vulnerability is an undocumented username and hard-coded password, which could allow a remote user to access the WCS database. The database holds …
SPOTLIGHT: City of WiFi
Forget that "City of Light" moniker: Paris wants to be known as the city of WiFi--more specifically, it hopes to be known as the best-connected capital in the world. Bertrand Delanoe, the city's mayor, said the city will strategically place more than 400 access points around the city to offer free access to the Internet. The city will also offer tax breaks to companies laying cable in city neighborhoods as part of the mayor's plan to have at least 80 percent of the city's buildings with broadband connection by 2010. Report
ALSO NOTED: United to offer in-flight WiFi; New Orleans uses WiFi for storm prep; and much more...
> United Airlines will begin to offer WiFi service on some of its flights. The airline is beginning to offer the service after Verizon Airfone said it would no longer offer in-flight phone service to United passengers after the end of the year. Report
Going WiFi
> New Orleans is getting ready for another wave of hurricanes--among other things, by …