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FierceWiFi November 23, 2005
- Editor's Corner
- BPL moving hesitantly forward
- Telstra chooses HSDPA over WiMax
- Motorola targets Asia/Pacific for 802.16e campaign
- Mesh metro-WiFi comes to Europe
- WiFi-enabled mosquito net kills bugs dead
- SPOTLIGHT: WiMax certification: The evolution
- ALSO NOTED: AirMagnet updates LAN analyzer; Nokia E-Series phones offer WLAN capability; and much more...
Editor's Corner
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BPL moving hesitantly forward
There is a new (well, not so new, but now more readily available) player in the broadband technology market: Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) is now available as a broadband Internet access service. The technology uses electrical power lines to move information to users. One advantage of this option is that power lines are available everywhere, so market penetration, in theory, should not be a problem. The downside here is that BPL comes in late. "There are already two well entrenched …
Telstra chooses HSDPA over WiMax
On its face, the direction is clear: A mobile version of WiMax has been launched in South Korea; Motorola is targeting the Asia/Pacific as its main focus for aggressive promotion of 802.16e; and WiMax certification has began. Then comes a reminder that things are a bit more complicated. In evidence: Australia's Telstra is not jumping on the WiMax bandwagon. The company's CEO, Sol Trujillo, has just announced that the operator will spend more than $1 billion on a turbo-charged 3G GSM …
Motorola targets Asia/Pacific for 802.16e campaign
Telstra's decision notwithstanding, Motorola is targeting the Asia/Pacific as its main area for WiMax development. Motorola's emphasis on Asia is part of its broader strategy to skip 802.16d and invest its efforts in 802.16e to provide mobility and fixed and nomadic access. Jay Andersen, vice president of sales and operations for Motorola Networks in Asia, said Motorola will focus on cultivating 802.16e awareness among operators, carriers, regulators, enterprises, and end users in the …
Mesh metro-WiFi comes to Europe
Mesh technology was developed on this side of the Atlantic and has been slow to gain a beachhead in Europe. It is beginning to do so. HiTel Italia and RoamAD announced an OEM partnership to respond to the growing demand for metro WiFi mesh solutions in the European market. HiTel is already selling RoamAD-based metro WiFi systems in Europe and expects to be able to announce its first metro WiFi deployment in Europe within the next 30 days. HiTel said it was gearing up to be a major player …
WiFi-enabled mosquito net kills bugs dead
If you cannot invent a new mouse trap, why not invent a new mosquito net? North Kingstown, RI-based American Biophysics has done just that: It is using WiFi to create a huge electronic mosquito net, or something that would serve the same purpose as a mosquito net. The company has already proved innovative in killing bugs dead by building a magnet which emits a human scent to attract bloodsucking insects. When the bugs fly into the net, the magnet sucks them in and they …
SPOTLIGHT: WiMax certification: The evolution
Remember that Remington electric shaver commercial: "I liked it so much, I bought the company?" Well, this is not quite the same, but close. Monica Paolini, the president of Sammamish, WA-based firm Senza Fili Consulting (what a beautiful name: Senza fili means "wireless" in Italian) was writing a large report on WiMax when she discovered that most of the people she spoke to had different perceptions of the WiMax certification process. "The information is out there, but …
ALSO NOTED: AirMagnet updates LAN analyzer; Nokia E-Series phones offer WLAN capability; and much more...
> AirMagnet has updated its LAN analyzer to allow remote scanning over any LAN or Internet connection. Article
> Nokia E-Series phones offer WLAN capability. Article
> PointShot Wireless will equip Canada's VIA Rail trains with WiFi connection. …