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All aboard for Wi-Fi trains?
News The Wireless LAN Event heard on Thursday that several companies in the railway sector are interested in the possibility of implementing wireless networks in trains, with some trials already planned or underway.
[May 23, 2003, 17:13]
Microsoft Tech Ed hosts Europe's largest WLAN
News Visitors to Microsoft's Tech Ed developer event this week have been online wherever they are in Barcelona's Monjuic 2 conference centre, thanks to Europe's biggest ever wireless LAN, set up in just three days by Orinoco, the wireless LAN company...
[July 4, 2002, 15:02]
Help sought as campaigners push the rural agenda
News The organisation will also be represented at The Wireless LAN Event, which takes place on 22-23 May, 2003, at Olympia, London. ZDNet UK will be reporting from The Wireless LAN Event next week, including any further details of ABC's Rural and...
[May 16, 2003, 15:05]
UK's Wi-Fi market may not match the hype
News The Wireless LAN Event, held at London Olympia last week, heard there is a significant gap between the number of Wi-Fi hot spots that have been set up so far in the UK and earlier forecasts. Earls Court and Olympia were among the first places to be...
[May 27, 2003, 14:44]
Performance Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Standard
White Papers IEEE 802.11 is a relatively new standard for communication in a wireless LAN. An ideal LAN is modeled and the paper describes the best case performance. This paper describes the results of the Discrete-Event Simulation of the Distributed...
[May 12, 2006, 1:00]
UK wireless networks 'flout the law'
News Munnery told the Wireless LAN Event in London on Tuesday that the companies using such networks without DFS and TPC could soon feel Ofcom's wrath. Companies and organisations across Britain are breaking the law by running high-speed wireless...
[April 7, 2004, 18:05]
Wi-Fi rollout on trains needs passenger push
News This estimate represents a slight downward revision on earlier forecasts that BWCS presented at The Wireless LAN Event in London back in May. Research group BWCS estimated this week that by 2008 rail travellers will be spending £266m per year on on...
[August 29, 2003, 17:45]
2010: A broadband odyssey
News ZDNet UK caught up with Brian Condon, who was appointed as ABC's first chief executive in November 2003, at the Wireless LAN Event in London this week. That was a great event, and it was so exciting that the guys running it were clearly going places.
[April 8, 2004, 16:30]
Aruba warns against 802.11n deployments
News Wireless LAN vendor Aruba Networks has warned enterprises against deploying the latest generation of Wi-Fi equipment until a number of issues have been ironed out. Many vendors are producing wireless LAN equipment based on the draft 802.11n...
[October 18, 2007, 10:47]
ZyXEL ZyWALL 35 UTM review
Reviews The other four connect the device to the LAN, which may seem a little over the top but they can also be configured as DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) interfaces for public-facing Internet Web and email servers.
[November 24, 2005, 12:10]
HP ProCurve Wireless Edge Services zl Module review
Reviews In any event, Radio Ports can generally be deployed by anyone who's able to fix the unit to a suitable surface and connect up a LAN cable. These settings are then automatically distributed to up to 48 ProCurve Radio Port devices, which act as...
[December 18, 2007, 8:03]
Dell: New notebooks will be WANderful
News The company has been shipping local-area network (LAN) wireless products for its notebooks, based on the 802.11 wireless standard, for about a year. They will utilise 802.11 wireless LAN through the addition of internal Mini PCI 802.11 cards.
[September 22, 2000, 11:11]
HP plans own-brand Wi-Fi
News The 802.1x-enabled network will also allow visitor networks (wireless or wired) where a visitor is given a certificate which puts them on a virtual LAN which only allows access to the public Internet, and keeps them away from corporate applications.
[February 25, 2003, 16:34]
Home Wi-Fi 'crucial' for wireless take-up
News Clive Mayhew-Begg, chief zones officer for Myzones, told an audience at The Wireless LAN Event at London's Olympia conference centre on Thursday that talk of mobile workers needing Wi-Fi access primarily when they're on the move misses a key fact...
[May 22, 2003, 16:30]
High and confusing prices 'hampering' Wi-Fi take-up
News Speaking at The Wireless LAN Event in London on Thursday, Ross Pow -- managing director of Analysys Research -- said that the Wi-Fi industry was "all over the place" with its charging models. Discover the latest developments in Wi-Fi, 3G, GPRS and...
[May 22, 2003, 15:44]
The pub's the hub for community broadband
News Jim Baker, founder and chief executive of Telabria, announced the launch of RuralMesh at the Wireless LAN Event in London on Tuesday. It can also act as the hub for a wireless community-wide broadband service," said Baker.
[April 6, 2004, 16:05]
Wi-Fi Cloud could be silver lining for rural broadband
News Inspired Broadcast Networks caused a stir earlier this month when it announced that it was planning to launch 3,000 wireless LAN hot spots this year, forming a network it calls The Cloud. Niall Murphy, technical director of The Cloud, told the...
[March 24, 2003, 12:12]
Intel launches upgrade to Centrino
News Intel has also updated the Centrino radio to support its own version of 802.11n — the upcoming wireless LAN standard — which has yet to be ratified.n will allow data transmission, at least in theory, of 300Mbps.
[May 9, 2007, 11:43]
VoIP: Not just about free calls
News But for a European, it's all about price and not having to pay the fees," said Brennan, speaking at the Wireless LAN Event in London. In America, though, the appeal is that wireless VoIP can let users make calls in places where GSM coverage is...
[April 22, 2005, 11:45]
Bumpy road ahead for Wi-Fi roaming
News In reality, wireless LAN (WLAN) hot spots in many cities are a patchy network without a common billing system or access settings. But perhaps the biggest step towards roaming nirvana might come from an event that will cause the most pain: A...
[March 18, 2003, 10:58]
