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Pre-standard Wi-Fi Products To Be Certified
News The Wi-Fi Alliance plans to begin certifying next-generation Wi-Fi products starting in 2007 before the 802.11n standard is fully complete, a decision that should ease consumers' concerns about buying pre-standard products.
[August 29, 2006, 16:05]
Laptop Makers Push Pre-standard Wireless
News But it is early days for 802.11n, as few enterprise access points are available that support the standard. The standard itself is still in a draft stage — meaning it could change markedly over the next year.
[November 10, 2006, 13:56]
Intel Advances Centrino With Faster Wireless
News It is pre-standard, but we are doing a lot of the testing work. Next-generation equipment based on 802.11n will offer throughput of up to 300Mbps, compared with a maximum of 54Mbps at present.n hasn't yet been certified, but several vendors are...
[October 2, 2006, 11:30]
Pre-certified 802.11n Vendors Risk Red Card
News It claims that pre-standard products present an "inherent risk" to technology providers. Vendors took advantage of unsuspecting buyers when they touted pre-standard technology for 802.11g that later did not meet the standard," said Ken Dulaney of...
[October 12, 2004, 17:50]
PC Vendors Snub Antitrust Altered Windows
News We will not pre-install as standard. Microsoft will make an updated version of Window XP N available on Wednesday, but none of the computer manufacturers that ZDNet UK spoke to are considering pre-installing it on desktops or laptops.
[June 15, 2005, 14:35]
WiMax Threatened By Delays
News Vendors will continue to sell pre-standard products to the few operators having already made a decision to deploy early, but operators waiting for standardised equipment will have to wait, and this will slow the market as a whole," Poulbere added.
[January 20, 2005, 15:25]
Adios To BIOS
News If EFI-based software is accepted broadly, it could prompt the first changing of the guard in pre-boot software in the history of the PC industry -- even though some critics say the transition may take a while or may not happen at all.
[December 30, 2003, 12:05]
802.11i - Designed To Integrate
News Such is the pressure for secure wireless LANs that some systems are already available with pre-approval versions of the standard. In installations where there's no authentication server -- probably the case in most homes and many small businesses...
[April 10, 2003, 9:22]
Users Split Over Naked PCs
News On the business side, several reader comments point to the fact many companies do not use pre-installed operating systems but rather choose to install a "standard image" on each machine. Reader Dale Beutel, a software engineer from Chicago, wrote...
[October 1, 2007, 17:42]
Constellation 3D Could Be Disc Storage Star
News The first generation of pre-recorded media will be released next summer, and Maloney revealed the release of rewritable media and drives would probably be brought forward from December 2001 to around October 2001.
[August 16, 2000, 12:05]
Intel Senses United Wireless Future In 802.21
News In a pre-show briefing to international press on Monday, Intel discussed developments that the company claims will herald a new era of cooperating standards in wireless. We're not quite ready to roll out products," said Kling, "but we're perhaps...
[August 23, 2005, 16:55]
Price War Forecast As Tele2 Targets UK
News Tele2 is basing its voice products on carrier pre-selection, a process that allows BT customers to make calls using another telecoms operator without having to fit an adaptor to their phone or dial other telephone numbers before making a call.
[October 21, 2003, 14:40]
To "n" Or Not To "n"?
Blog Bearing in mind that this is only "pre-certified" (certification will happen later in the year), I decided to stick with the "g" standard instead. I asked what he thought of the manufacturer offering consumers 802.11n pre-certified kit, and he said...
[February 9, 2007, 14:38]
Poor Wi-Fi Passwords 'invite Attack'
News The specification allows for two types of key management: pre-shared keys, where everyone uses the same pass phrase, and managed keys, which use a server to assign a different key to each user. Moskowitz's concerns are for home users and small...
[November 7, 2003, 7:50]
Not MIMO
Talkback I don't think this is MIMO, this is activation of a pre-standard feature which was unavailable on sale(.n functionalitly, a significant speed boost). Apple kit with this feature was not advertised as such so as far as the customer is concerned they...
[January 22, 2007, 10:45]
Then You Think Wrong!
Talkback 802.11n is an extenstion to 802.11 that adds MIMO techniques, thus the cores had pre-standard 802.11n embedded, just not activated. The multiple inputs/outputs (i.e. MIMO) is what gives you the data rate increases.
[January 22, 2007, 13:35]
Ethernet Creator Talks Up Potential Of ZigBee
News Consultancy firm West 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. While a few companies have produced rather inferior...
[October 11, 2004, 17:35]
Users Warned Against New Wi-Fi Gear
News Two different groups testing new wireless products based on a draft standard of the next generation Wi-Fi technology have cautioned consumers to hold off on buying pre-standard gear. On Monday, the Farpoint Group and the technology trade...
[April 25, 2006, 12:45]
ISO17799 And The Gramm-Leach Bliley Act
White Papers Derived from the pre existing British Standard 7799, this standard has arguably established itself as the premier benchmark for information security. The ISO17799 is widely regarded as a broad and comprehensive standard for information security...
[April 22, 2008, 0:00]
Integ Gains Enterprise Impact With IBM Distribution Express For SAP
White Papers After examining a range of options, Integ selected IBM Distribution Express, a pre-configured version of the standard SAP R/3 4.6C software for midsize businesses.
[July 10, 2004, 0:00]
