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FierceWiFi November 2, 2005
- New standard improves control of WLAN
- Sequans, Wavesat show WiMax plans
- Cisco comfortably leads among WLAN vendors
- Azimuth offers MIMO channel emulator
- More schools offering RFID certification programs
- SPOTLIGHT: You can look it up
- ALSO NOTED: Hotspot hits Atlanta airport; Qwest drops bid for Portland WiFi contract; and much more...
New standard improves control of WLAN
What do enterprises want? They want to control their networks, but in enterprise-class 802.11 deployments the control of the network is limited to the infrastructure (wireless switches, APs). What about wireless client devices such as laptops, PDAs and wVoIP phones? Well, network administrators have no control over them. The IEEE wants to remedy that by proposing 802.11v, a standard for wireless network management. The standard defines procedures by which a wireless infrastructure may …
Sequans, Wavesat show WiMax plans
Cupertino, CA-based Sequans Communications and Quebec-based Wavesat each unveiled a chip set and a mini-PCI card reference kit designed to accelerate WiMax development and deployment, and both are doing so a week after initiating WiMax certification testing. Wavesat said its design is the first mini-PCI card design and that the company is targeting Asian ODMs. They, in turn, would accelerate the volume of WiMax CPE and push costs down. The reference kit joins Wavesat's DM256 baseband chip …
Cisco comfortably leads among WLAN vendors
There may not be many differences in features and quality between WLAN equipment from Cisco and such equipment from other companies. Still, Cisco leads all other vendors comfortably, according to a recent study by Forrester Research. In a close examination of the top seven WLAN system vendors, Cisco was the clear victor, said Forrester's Ellen Daley. "Cisco is above everyone," she said. "They're the one to catch, but they're going to be hard to catch."
Forrester evaluated the leading …
Azimuth offers MIMO channel emulator
Azimuth Systems is showing what it calls the industry's first MIMO channel emulator for testing WiFi products. The Azimuth Channel Emulator (ACE) 400NB reproduces 4 x 4 multipath environments with channel correlation to test MIMO or single-input-single-output (SISO) implementations. The ACE system is likely the first purpose-built 802.11 test solution which can emulate multipath signals in a controlled environment. Multipath--the reflection of radio frequency (RF) signals in a physical …
More schools offering RFID certification programs
The University of California Irvine Extension has opened enrollment for its first certificate program in RFID technology. It is but the latest in a series of business schools across the country showing academic interest in RFID and its business implications. Five courses totaling 150 hours are required to complete the program. The first two classes are being offered in the winter quarter and the remaining three in the spring. "The classes are based on business processes, rather than the …
SPOTLIGHT: You can look it up
WiFi is now an official word (not that anyone was waiting for this designation to use it). It is included in the new edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. Frank Hanzlik, managing director of the Wi-Fi Alliance, said, "You know you've truly made it when you're in Webster's dictionary. Webster's is a highly respected source for word definitions, so appearing in the dictionary lends real credibility to everything the Wi-Fi Alliance has been working toward." Story
ALSO NOTED: Hotspot hits Atlanta airport; Qwest drops bid for Portland WiFi contract; and much more...
> Concerns about security brightens future of smart cards markets. Report
> Atlanta's international airport last week launched a large WiFi hot spot. Report
> Qwest quits Portland WiFi network competition. …