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FierceWiFi August 24, 2005
- Cisco, Intel collaborate on enterprise WLANs
- Alvarion joins Digital Communities initiative
- Pulse~LINK, Analog Devices show UWB HDTV
- Trend: VoWLAN poised for take off
- Redpine shows very low-power 802.11b/g platform
- SPOTLIGHT: The media justice movement
- ALSO NOTED: Business users confused over WiFi, 3G, GPRS; FireTide, Meru team on enterprise products; and much more...
Cisco, Intel collaborate on enterprise WLANs
Intel and Cisco will expand their collaboration in enhancing the capabilities of WLANs and bolstering the security of enterprise networks. The two companies have produced what they call the Business Class Wireless Suite, which targets companies using Cisco's Unified Wireless Architecture and Intel Centrino mobile technology. The solution will be available in the first quarter of 2006.
The two companies will also participate in programs led by each of them: Intel will join the …
Alvarion joins Digital Communities initiative
Israeli WiMax pioneer Alvarion will participate in Intel's Digital Communities initiative, aiming to assist in the community's design and develop and deploy communication services through wireless broadband and state-of-the-art computing. Participants also hope that the program will bridge, or at least narrow, the the digital divide. Alvarion's BreezeACCESS VL is already deployed in several participating cities. One such city, Corpus Christi, Texas, is deploying a large, multi-use …
Pulse~LINK, Analog Devices show UWB HDTV
UWB has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, what with the impasse in standard specifications and such. It is good, therefore, to see a positive note for a change. Pulse~LINK, developer of CWave UWB, and Analog Devices, developer of high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, are teaming up to show the first wireless transmission of real-time HD video. The two companies will show side-by-side comparison of MPEG and JPEG2000 across Pulse~LINK's UWB wireless …
Trend: VoWLAN poised for take off
More and more people are making voice calls over wireless data networks, and as technology develops further, VoWLAN is going to experience exponential growth. These are the conclusions of two research groups -- Frost & Sullivan and Infonetics Research. Of special importance is the increasing number and sophistication of dual-mode handsets, which allow customers to switch between cellular and WiFi networks. In 2004, worldwide revenue from dual-mode handsets reached $6.7 million and …
Redpine shows very low-power 802.11b/g platform
Santa Clara, California-based Redpine Signals has unveiled what must surely be the world's lowest-power licensable 802.11b/g platform. It requires only 35.6mW during VoIP calls. The Pine1-LP WLAN reference design is supported by Linux drivers and targets mobile handsets, PDAs, digital cameras, MP3 players, gaming, and printing platforms. Low power is in: A recent study by ABI Research pointed to low power consumption as key to the success of mobile WiFi chipsets.
Redpine says that …
SPOTLIGHT: The media justice movement
Were W.E.B. DuBois alive today, he would probably conclude that the digital divide has a color line running through it. Several organizations have been established to bridge this divide, among them the Center for Digital Democracy, the Media Access Project, and Free Press. They are all part of a new activism, called the media justice movement, fighting what they describe as the unbearable whiteness of media reform. The problem of poor people, mostly minorities, failing to benefit from …
ALSO NOTED: Business users confused over WiFi, 3G, GPRS; FireTide, Meru team on enterprise products; and much more...
> New research from Tatara Systems finds that business users are confused over differences between WiFi, 3G, and GPRS. Report
> Los Gatos, California-based mesh gear maker FireTide is teaming up with WLAN system maker Meru Networks to offer jointly developed products to the enterprise. Story
> The latest entryway for SPAM: VoIP. …