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FierceWiFi February 22, 2006
- Mobile WiMax arrives in Europe
- Proxim offers new line of 3.5 GHz WiMax products
- Trend: New mini mobile network operators to emerge
- Chicago's brand of muni-WiFi
- Swedish company shows smallest WiFi chip set
- SPOTLIGHT: WiFi fleecing in London?
- ALSO NOTED: Nortel enters Australia WLAN hardware market; Pune, India, subcontinent's first WiFi-enabled city; and much more...
Mobile WiMax arrives in Europe
Almeria, Cartagena, Alicante, Valencia--four good reasons to go to sunny, enchanting southeastern Spain. For those interested in WiMax deployment, there is now another reason. Spanish operator Codium Networks, an independent integrator specializing in WiMax-driven network solutions, will use Navini Networks equipment to deploy a broadband wireless network in the region. Thousands of subscribers for the alternative telco Voz y Dato will receive service through the new network. Voz y Dato …
Proxim offers new line of 3.5 GHz WiMax products
Proxim, a wholly owned subsidiary of Terabeam, has launched a family of WiMax products operating in the 3.5 GHz band. The Tsunami MP.16 offers a modular, scalable approach to system deployment, making these WiMax products suitable for a wider range of service providers, from rural providers to metropolitan providers. Proxim's Lionel Chmilewsky said, "...we have not had a product for the rapidly-growing 3.5 GHz market. By leveraging the radio, mechanical, networking and management …
Trend: New mini mobile network operators to emerge
Interesting news from the U.K.: A new breed of mini mobile network operators will start operation later this year. Carriers are watching this development with interest, if not anxiety, and those investing in WiFi gear are also a bit apprehensive. U.K. regulator Ofcom is offering between seven and 12 low-power licenses which would be suitable for wireless communications in premises such as an office. Ofcom says the licenses will be technology and application neutral, but observers expect …
Chicago's brand of muni-WiFi
Chicago is looking for proposals to build a citywide WiFi network. The Windy City joins others which are moving toward building a WiFi network of their own, among them Philadelphia and San Francisco. New Orleans, too, is using a free WiFi network to attract businesses back to the ravaged city. New Orleans got around the legal issues involved in deploying municipal networks more easily than other cities because its designation as a disaster zone made it exempt from various rules and …
Swedish company shows smallest WiFi chip set
Swedish chip maker Nanoradio has released a new WiFi chip set which, with a total die size of only 20 mm2, must be the smallest, lowest-power WiFi chip set available today. The NRX700 is available for evaluation by key customers. Production quantities are estimated to be available in the third quarter of this year. This is a very good time to come out with a small, power-modest WiFi chip set. There are two trends in the market which require smaller WiFi chips: IP telephony is going mobile …
SPOTLIGHT: WiFi fleecing in London?
Just read what Barry Collins of the London Times has to say about hotspot service: "These days, you don't need to have your credit-card details stolen to be completely ripped off online. The sky-high prices at most of Britain's wireless Internet (WiFi) hotspots is nothing short of scandalous. Frankly, it's a stick-up... Stroll into a Starbucks café with your laptop and click on your Internet browser. Up pops a screen brazenly demanding the princely sum of £5 for …
ALSO NOTED: Nortel enters Australia WLAN hardware market; Pune, India, subcontinent's first WiFi-enabled city; and much more...
> Nortel has entered the crowded WLAN hardware market in Australia with the launch of a range of enterprise-ready convergence products. Report
> Siemens has released Sinema E (Simatic Network Manager Engineering), a software tool for planning, simulation and configuration of industrial WLAN applications. Report
> Pune, …