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Users warned against new Wi-Fi gear

...generation Wi-Fi technology have cautioned consumers to hold off on buying pre-standard gear. On Monday, the Farpoint Group and the technology trade publication... Read more

25 April, 2006 by Marguerite Reardon

Laptop makers push pre-standard wireless

Lenovo and HP will follow Dell and Acer in building high-speed Wi-Fi into their notebooks, despite concerns over compatibility Read more

10 November, 2006 by Richard Thurston

Pre-standard Wi-Fi products to be certified

...is fully complete, a decision that should ease consumers' concerns about buying pre-standard products. The industry group, which has certified products for all the... Read more

29 August, 2006 by Marguerite Reardon

Ethernet creator talks up potential of ZigBee

...Technology Research Solutions claimed earlier this month that vendors who are releasing "pre-standard" products in an attempt to grab market share risk damaging ZigBee... Read more

11 October, 2004 by Graeme Wearden
Cisco: Innovators don't wait for standards

Cisco: Innovators don't wait for standards

...and questioned him on the latest raft of Cisco technologies, including a pre-standard wireless access point, TelePresence videoconferencing and Unified Communications Manager, its newest... Read more

8 February, 2008 by Richard Thurston

Cutting the cable count with PoE

...is finalised: "I would expect to see a number of companies releasing pre-standard stuff in the next quarter or two. It's good for... Read more

4 February, 2008 by Richard Thurston

Wi-Fi Alliance defends early certification

...controversial decision. "The IEEE kept moving its ratification more and more, and pre-standard products were coming out," said Hanzlik on Tuesday. "We were concerned... Read more

20 June, 2007 by David Meyer

Motorola shuns draft-n Wi-Fi equipment

...we don't want our customers to end up with non-compliant, pre-standard equipment." The new generation of Wi-Fi promises improved bandwidth and... Read more

25 May, 2007 by David Meyer
Photos: Technology Showcase at IDF

Photos: Technology Showcase at IDF

...Ntertainment Is this the future of the unwired home? This breadboard uses pre-standard 802.11n to relay high-definition digital entertainment to notebooks around... Read more

17 April, 2007 by Rupert Goodwins

Intel advances Centrino with faster wireless

...of the product [to our customers] in a suitable timeframe. It is pre-standard, but we are doing a lot of the testing work. We... Read more

2 October, 2006 by Richard Thurston

WiMax firm gets major cash injection

...acquisition and acquiring spectrum. Clearwire currently offers a service based on a pre-standard version of WiMax with download speeds of up to 1.5Mbps... Read more

6 July, 2006 by Michael Kanellos

Virgin Trains get connected with WiMax and HSDPA

...provide wireless connectivity for travellers using a mix of wi-fi, HSDPA, pre-standard WiMax and satellite technology. CEO Magnus McEwen-King told silicon.com... Read more

29 June, 2006 by Jo Best

No return to the wild Wi-Fi west

...hungry. They saw what happened when Belkin broke ranks and aggressively marketed pre-standard kit for 802.11g, the last big wireless speed upgrade. There... Read more

4 May, 2006 by Leader

Confused promises don't help WiMax

...either. It's hard to tell amid the mish-mash of mislabelled pre-standard deployments and hopeful, imprecise promises. The industry players are addicted to... Read more

14 October, 2005 by Leader

WiMax threatened by delays

...Vincent Poulbere, a senior consultant at Ovum. "Vendors will continue to sell pre-standard products to the few operators having already made a decision to... Read more

20 January, 2005 by Graeme Wearden

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