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HiperLAN collapse opens European door to 802.11a
News Wireless LANs running at 54 megabits per second (mbps) could be available in the UK within six months, although politics could delay it till the end of 2002. The IEEE is adding DFS (dynamic frequency selection) and TPC (transmit power control...
[December 18, 2001, 15:34]
Proxim offers DIY Wi-Fi hot spot
News The AP-2500 combines Proxim's AP-2000 Wi-Fi access point with the Nomadix gateway software, which is commonly used to control access to public wireless LANs (WLANs). The company is repeating the wireless LAN it built in Barcelona for Microsoft's...
[November 19, 2002, 14:05]
Dumb Wi-Fi cleans up cabling
News The total cost of ownership of wireless LANs is high because there is a high refresh rate for access points -- due to the immaturity of the technology," said Martino. Traffic through the access points (or "ports" as Symbol calls them) is separated...
[September 17, 2002, 10:09]
BT to roll out Wi-Fi hot spots across the UK
News High bandwidth LANs and Storage Area Networks are now in common use. Four hundred sites will give us 30 percent coverage of the key sites where people want to get high-speed wireless access," said David Hughes, director of BT Mobility.
[April 10, 2002, 12:38]
BT kicks off commercial Wi-Fi network
News As ZDNet UK reported, BT announced back in April that it was planning to set up high-speed wireless LANs across the UK that could be accessed by the public. BT has launched BT Openzone -- its Wi-Fi service that gives laptop and PDA users high-speed...
[August 2, 2002, 16:31]
Wi-Fi rules in homes, not offices
News Wireless LANs are showing up everywhere -- in the home, the office and public places such as Starbucks outlets and airport lounges. In lean economic times, providing a wireless LAN is a low priority for many IT organisations, while lower price...
[September 15, 2003, 12:50]
Dell to licence BlackBerry wireless PDA
News Dell will do a site survey for companies wishing to install wireless LANs for desktops to make sure their offices are able to handle such networks, officials said. Elsewhere on the wireless front, Dell plans to give wireless LAN access to its...
[November 16, 1999, 17:27]
A Year Ago: Dell to licence BlackBerry wireless PDA
News Dell will do a site survey for companies wishing to install wireless LANs for desktops to make sure their offices are able to handle such networks, officials said. Elsewhere on the wireless front, Dell plans to give wireless LAN access to its...
[November 16, 2000, 6:00]
Government to fund broadband town
News It will finance research into the feasibility of "village wireless LANs" and broadband satellite for rural areas, and will also pay to give business parks in its area access to broadband. Other initiatives will use satellite or wireless systems to...
[March 19, 2002, 12:50]
Government clears way for public Wi-Fi hot spots
News High bandwidth LANs and Storage Area Networks are now in common use. The government moved on Monday to end commercial restrictions on the deployment of wireless local-area networks (WLANs), opening the door to the introduction of wireless Internet...
[June 11, 2002, 14:36]
Forum: The fate of wireless security
News Wireless local area networks, or LANs, let anyone with a laptop and a modem get wireless Internet access from up to 300 feet away. Although wireless LANs operate through the 802.11 standard, there is an alphabet soup of versions of 802.11 that have...
[May 14, 2002, 9:46]
Transforming Telephony: Architectures for Convergence
White Papers The massive adoption of the TCP/IP protocol suite has brought together multiple network technologies, local and wide area networks (LANs and WANs), wired and wireless, public and private networks, and access to a near-infinite number of applications.
[February 3, 2005, 2:00]
A Year Ago: Bluetooth - the invisible link
News This is an unlicenced band, already utilised by IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, microwave ovens and various commercial data transmission systems. The next generation of wireless networking was unveiled today with the announcement of ‘Bluetooth'.
[May 21, 1999, 6:36]
Mobile .Net application could save NHS millions
News The savings come from simplifying orders, and are enough to cover the costs of installing wireless LANs in the hospital. Hospital staff tend to be mobile, and very often do not have access to a desktop PC when they want to order more supplies.
[July 30, 2002, 9:09]
The top five IT certification stories of 2002
News The two certs are designed to show that the IT professionals earning them understand what is required to design, implement, support, and administer 802.11-powered wireless LANs, and that these professionals are proficient with Cisco Aironet...
[December 17, 2002, 19:11]
Networks industry looks to the future
News High bandwidth LANs and Storage Area Networks are now in common use. Mon 24 Jun: The New York show will tap into the emerging craze for building wireless Internet access hot spots in public places Wireless is the word at TechXNY
[June 24, 2002, 11:33]
Wi-Fi system 'safe', says Boeing
News The market for wireless LANs that can be used on flights appears to be set to take off and is a natural extension of Wi-Fi offerings in terminals and other public places. The unit at Boeing responsible for developing in-flight Wi-Fi equipment has...
[August 1, 2003, 15:00]
Wi-Fi connections tipped to fly
News Global penetration levels of home wireless local area networks (LANs are expected to reach 23 percent of broadband homes by 2007, according to the report. The growth of home Wi-Fi will spur the demand for new services and may also drive an increase...
[January 8, 2004, 13:55]
Bluetooth to be big by Christmas
News In businesses, some users say Bluetooth interferes with 802.11b wireless LANs, which are widely used in the US. Despite recent pronouncements that Bluetooth is mired in nearly impossible technical and production problems, Red-M and other companies...
[April 12, 2001, 16:06]
Wireless deployment at enterprise level
News Several companies are offering solutions to help companies with traditional wireless LANs migrate to a centralised management architecture more easily. Voice communications are mission-critical applications… for most organisations, so the ability...
[September 14, 2006, 15:40]
