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Wireless LAN sales surge as prices plummet
News Sales of wireless LAN equipment soared in 2002 -- with shipments more than doubling over 2001 figures -- spurred by falling prices; higher demand for mobile computing; and better interoperability becauses of work on standards.
[June 16, 2003, 9:54]
Ethernet takes a step towards service providers
News The MEF's E-Line and E-LAN standards are being voted on, and will be finalised in August. The last decade has seen LAN capacity expand some 100-fold, and backbone capacity more like 300-fold, while the real bottleneck has been in the metropolitan...
[March 6, 2003, 14:34]
A to Z of wireless standards
News However, with the onset of activity in personal and wide area wirelesss networks, the wireless LAN world has settled down and the following list of standards will probably be the last you'll need in the world of 802.11.
[March 26, 2003, 8:04]
Wireless LANs - Standards and security
News If you listen closely, you can almost hear the sound of wireless LAN radio frequencies zipping network traffic through the air. A site survey can determine where to place access points within a building to create a map of the areas (cell structures...
[May 8, 2002, 9:42]
Wireless LAN security
News Wireless LAN (WLAN) technology promises greater mobility, convenience, and even improved productivity; but what it can't promise right now is ironclad security. Bluesocket's solution is a gateway that sits between the WLAN access points and the...
[April 17, 2002, 13:39]
Wireless: The new rage in notebooks
News Later in the year, as these standards come together, Dell will offer its own wireless LAN technology. Headcount is growing so quickly some company managers have given up their office space, and now work out of conference rooms, using a wireless LAN...
[September 17, 1999, 9:20]
802.11i - designed to integrate
News It's often overlooked that security on wired networks is also something of a novelty, people assume because a LAN is entirely contained within an office it is therefore safe. This describes how two network nodes can pass messages to each other...
[April 10, 2003, 9:22]
Nuclear lab bans wireless networks
News Security experts have warned that wireless networks pose a serious security threat to businesses using them because information passed along a wireless LAN is often unprotected and easily intercepted.
[January 31, 2002, 13:21]
LifeSize Express review
Reviews We had both ends of a LifeSize Express system up and running and communicating over our company LAN less than an hour after unpacking the boxes. From left to right, there's a reset button, a 4-pin power connector (from the bulky 19V AC adapter), a...
[April 4, 2008, 9:11]
IEEE's 802.11g WLAN standard seems doomed
News A faster variation on the 802.11b wireless LAN standard seems certain to arrive in the market too late to have any real use. While 54mbps WLAN products based on the 802.11a standard are arriving in the US, the IEEE standards body has approved...
[December 18, 2001, 15:56]
Ralink RT2500 Wireless LAN Card
Downloads Ralink RT2500 Wireless LAN Card: The RT2560 is a highly integrated MAC/baseband processor to support IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN Standards. The processor is part of Ralink chip set RT2500 (2.4GHz) and RT5200 (Dual band).
[February 16, 2004, 7:00]
IDF: Intel's tri-mode future for wireless networking
News However, the proposed 802.11g 54 megabits per second (mbps) wireless LAN standard is unlikely to have a future independent of other standards, he said. Doctor cited Intel's membership of standards bodies working in all these areas as proof of the...
[February 27, 2002, 10:07]
OFDM Receiver Design
White Papers It has been adopted for various standards include the 802.11a wireless LAN standard. Othogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) has gained considerable attention in recent years. In this project, authors implemented an OFDM receiver based...
[October 16, 2004, 5:35]
Telco-friendly Ethernet 'ready for action'
News The MEF's E-Line and E-LAN standards -- currently being voted on -- will allow service providers to adopt Ethernet, said Chen. The last decade has seen LAN capacity expand some 100-fold, and backbone capacity more like 300-fold, while the real...
[March 5, 2003, 8:36]
802.11 Security: Defending the New Network Edge
White Papers But the implementation of new standards doesn't mean IT managers can rest easy: As wireless LAN networks spread throughout the corporate world, new threats and security challenges are arising, including viruses that can use a WLAN network as a...
[February 14, 2006, 23:00]
Punahou School Deploys Cisco Unified Communications and Cisco Secure Wireless Solutions for High-Quality Learning and Collaboration
White Papers Punahou School needed a wireless LAN solution that could be centrally managed and monitored, while simultaneously enforcing standards-based security services. Hawaiian Telcom recommended a comprehensive solution from Cisco that would upgrade the...
[June 18, 2008, 1:01]
Cisco IOS VLAN Services
White Papers In LAN workgroup environments, the ISL protocol delivers VLAN functionality with full switching performance. Cisco supports VLANs over ATM via LAN Emulation and, in large LAN and serial link environments, has adopted the ratified IEEE 802.10 protocol.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
3Com 3CRDAG675 Wireless LAN PCI Adapter
Downloads 3Com 3CRDAG675 Wireless LAN PCI Adapter. Supports all three existing IEEE 802.11 networking standards 11a, 11b, and 11g so users can connect to any Wi-Fi wireless network. Enterprise-class PCI Adapter offers a host of features that ensure secure...
[August 1, 2003, 8:00]
Motorola UMA - A Residential Seamless Mobility Solution
White Papers The solution uses dual-mode cellular handsets utilising access technologies such as Bluetooth and Wireless LAN. The solution is based on standards developed by the Unlicensed Mobile Access Consortium.
[November 9, 2005, 0:00]
The Journey Forward: Passive Optical LAN for the Corporate Wide Enterprise - How Passive Optical LAN Solutions Enable The-Journey to Enterprise IT Resource Optimization
White Papers Based on the same proven and standards based technology as Verizon's successful FiOS service, a Passive Optical LAN (POL) is a point-to-multipoint network in which a single aggregation switch provides more than 7,000 IP voice, data, and video...
[August 4, 2009, 0:00]
