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Colubris Touts Next-gen Wi-Fi Access Point
News Colubris has revealed what it claims is the industry's first "intelligent, enterprise-class" 802.11n wireless LAN access point.n is a non-standardised radio specification which provides data transmission of up to 300Mbps — five times faster than...
[May 14, 2007, 11:46]
Cisco Develops Own Power Over Ethernet Standard
News Cisco has developed its own proprietary standard to support the latest wireless access points, the company said on Wednesday. The latest wireless access points, designed for the 802.11n draft, cannot be effectively powered using current switching...
[January 23, 2008, 15:23]
Proxim: 802.11n To Bring Back 'fat' Access Points
News Centralised controllers were introduced in 2002, by companies including Symbol, Aruba, Trapeze and Airespace (now part of Cisco) to simplify the management of wireless access points, and automate the coverage of large buildings.
[November 17, 2008, 16:01]
HP ProCurve Adds In 802.11n Wireless
News HP ProCurve has launched an 802.11n Wi-Fi access point and has revitalised its wireless LAN range with products acquired through the recent purchase of Colubris Networks. By shifting to wireless technology that it owns, HP ProCurve promises to let...
[November 11, 2008, 17:18]
Laptop Makers Push Pre-standard Wireless
News Next-generation wireless connectivity is now being offered in the latest notebook PCs, despite concerns over whether it will work with the latest enterprise access points. High-speed Wi-Fi, or 802.11n, will offer around five times the bandwidth and...
[November 10, 2006, 13:56]
Apple Time Capsule: A First Look review
Reviews When Time Capsule does ship, it appears that it will be the only device available that combines an 802.11n wireless access point and basic network attached storage. Apple's Time Capsule combines an 802.11n Wi-Fi access point with a 500GB or 1TB...
[January 16, 2008, 10:05]
Ruckus Mixes Meshing With 802.11n
News The company's SmartMesh wireless LAN technology, launched on Monday, is a free software upgrade to turn Ruckus's existing ZoneFlex access points into mesh nodes, thus making it unnecessary for all of them to be connected directly to Ethernet.
[April 21, 2008, 17:42]
400Mbps Wi-Fi Standard Back On Track
News Final ratification of the standard is not expected until next year, and several revisions are expected to take place before that final standard is ratified.n will allow notebook users to connect to wireless access points at much faster speeds than...
[January 20, 2006, 9:10]
Aruba Warns Against 802.11n Deployments
News Many businesses use power over Ethernet-enabled switches to support wireless access points. Wireless LAN vendor Aruba Networks has warned enterprises against deploying the latest generation of Wi-Fi equipment until a number of issues have been...
[October 18, 2007, 10:47]
Meru Claims First European 802.11n Campus
News All the major enterprise wireless LAN companies have now launched 802.11n access points, although most are only slowly starting to deliver them, as it is not yet clear how quickly businesses will adopt the new equipment.
[November 27, 2007, 15:11]
Cisco Launches Draft Wi-Fi Kit
News Cisco also announced other 802.11n products on Tuesday, including the 48Gbps Catalyst 6500-based WLAN controller system and wired and wireless services with the Unified Wireless Network Release 4.2. Cisco has unveiled what it claims is the first...
[September 5, 2007, 13:42]
Ruckus Keeps Wireless Simple For SMEs
News Ruckus Wireless has introduced a range of wireless access points, which it claims is designed specifically for the needs of small businesses. The range is a continuation of the company's existing portfolio, which has until now targeted wireless...
[May 22, 2007, 12:52]
The Future Of Wireless review
Reviews Not to worry; a faster wireless standard that allows all compliant devices to communicate at the same speed may appear as early as mid-2005. Take manufacturers of wireless networking gear, for example.
[March 10, 2004, 6:55]
Duke Bets On Wireless Technology
White Papers Find out why reliable wireless access will be a keystone of all future college campus infrastructures--watch this informative video now. In under 4 minutes, this free streaming News@Cisco video describes how Duke University deployed the new 802.11n...
[March 17, 2008, 13:57]
Does 802.11n Deliver Better Wireless Services For Enterprises?
White Papers Watch our on demand 802.11n webinar to discover how HiPath Wireless 802.11n from Siemens Enterprise Communication has solved the traditional technology challenges associated with higher power access points and controllers.
[September 19, 2008, 10:36]
Further Delays For New Wi-Fi Standard
News The new standard, which will allow notebook users to connect to wireless access points at much faster speeds than are currently available, was expected to be finalised later this year. Companies such as Dell have already announced notebooks that...
[August 15, 2006, 10:15]
Power Over Ethernet (PoE) And 802.11n
White Papers Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology provides a means to transmit electrical power, along with data, to remote devices such as Wireless LAN (WLAN) Access Points (APs) over an unmodified Ethernet network.
[July 4, 2008, 1:00]
Users Warned Against New Wi-Fi Gear
News The new 802.11n standard, which is expected to be finalised later this year, will allow notebook users to connect to wireless access points at much faster speeds than currently available with 802.11g technology.n will use a technology called MIMO...
[April 25, 2006, 12:45]
Dell Laptops Offer Draft Wi-Fi Technology
News Wireless networking vendors, however, have already started offering routers and access points based on the draft version of the technology, and Dell will now allow some notebook customers to purchase 802.11n cards bundled into their PCs.
[July 18, 2006, 9:40]
BT Upgrades Its Home Hub Routers
News It also comes with Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) as the default wireless security protocol, rather than the outmoded Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol that was used in previous iterations. According to BT, the use of 'N' Wi-Fi means the new...
[July 14, 2008, 15:34]
