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Wireless Networking Kit Sales On The Up
News Sales of wireless LAN (WLAN) equipment are rising steadily as enterprises roll out campus-wide networks with business-class gear for both data and IP voice applications, new data from Infonetics Research shows.
[June 5, 2006, 10:05]
Wireless Networking Made Easier review
Reviews For one thing, you'll need different gear and more of it. And just to make things more exciting, vendors haven't agreed on the nomenclature: Even though the IEEE (the arbiter of wireless networking standards) has defined 'access point' pretty...
[March 2, 2004, 14:15]
Catch The New Wave In Wireless Networking: 802.11n review
Reviews We've already reviewed the first round of MIMO-enabled networking devices, including the Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router, Linksys WRT54GX and Netgear WPN824 RangeMax, all of which offer clear performance gains over standard 802.11g gear.
[May 3, 2005, 12:05]
Faster Wireless Gear Sells More
News The market for wireless networking gear is maturing, with sales of 802.11g devices poised to overtake those of 802.11b this year. In 2003, overall revenue for Wi-Fi wireless networking gear was $2.5bn (£1.33bn), up about 40 percent, compared with...
[February 25, 2004, 11:00]
The Future Of Wireless review
Reviews Take manufacturers of wireless networking gear, for example. For this reason, it's often better to wait on a ratified standard than to start building your network with non-standard gear. To get the speed boost, however, all of the gear on your...
[March 10, 2004, 6:55]
New Microsoft Wi-Fi Gear Runs On Latest Standard
News Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it has updated its line of wireless-networking products, adding gear based on the latest Wi-Fi 802.11g standard. The decision cost Microsoft market share after the company, which entered the Wi-Fi gear market in...
[September 17, 2003, 11:05]
Cisco 'winds Down' Wireless Chipsets
News Cisco used Wi-Fi chipsets from Radiata, which it bought in 2000, mainly in its earlier Aironet family of gear for wireless local area networking (WLAN). The networking gear giant plans to focus more of its energy on software development and on next...
[February 2, 2004, 10:05]
Networking Start-up Plugs Into Cable
News The Pure Speed products are a high-speed alternative to home wireless networking gear, and another networking technology called powerline networking, which uses a home's existing electrical wiring to deliver network connectivity.
[May 15, 2003, 13:08]
Microsoft Loses Ground In Wi-Fi Market
News In January, Microsoft captured the No.position in US retail sales of Wi-Fi wireless networking gear (behind Linksys, which was recently acquired by Cisco) only to see its share drop back down to fourth place in February, according to NPDTechworld.
[March 28, 2003, 17:02]
Cisco Buys Linksys For $500m
News The PC maker sells a wide range of Linksys networking gear, alongside its own line of Dell TrueMobile wireless networking cards and base stations. Networking giant Cisco Systems on Wednesday said it would buy Linksys, a manufacturer of networking...
[March 20, 2003, 15:19]
Microsoft Fixes Wireless Glitch
News The company released network gear to help facilitate broadband adoption, particularly using wireless. The glitches are a bit of a black eye for Microsoft, as they reflect upon the company's expansion into an important new hardware category -- home...
[November 12, 2002, 8:13]
Microsoft Executes Wi-Fi U-turn
News Despite quickly becoming one of the leading sellers of wireless networking products, Microsoft has decided to discontinue its entire line of Wi-Fi gear, CNET News.com has learned. The software maker said its line of 802.11g gear will continue to be...
[May 11, 2004, 8:45]
Support Grows For Rural DSL Alternative
News Gear makers have joined a nonprofit group looking to promote wireless access to high-speed broadband connections. By using 802.16a gear to build a wireless network, operators would be able to make broadband access available to customers sooner...
[April 9, 2003, 9:17]
Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router: A First Look review
Reviews Belkin claims that MIMO increases both the range and throughput of its Pre-N router by 200 percent over standard Wi-Fi gear, but mileage will vary, depending on the physical environment of your wireless network.
[September 6, 2004, 11:00]
Powerline Networking Charges Up
News Network gear makers are surging at the potential of powerline technology, as a complement to wireless products and as a differentiating feature for products that are increasingly fighting for retail shelf space.
[March 10, 2003, 10:57]
Cisco Catches Up With Wi-Fi Start-ups
News The concept is designed to enable current Cisco customers to integrate wireless services into networks already running Cisco networking gear. According to one analyst, the capabilities provided by the module will put Cisco's gear on par with...
[May 5, 2004, 9:25]
Chipmaker Gets A Jump On Safer Wireless
News Despite its shortcomings -- which include porous security against hackers -- Cisco Systems, Proxim and other wireless networking gear makers have enjoyed nearly eight straight quarters of double-digit growth in sales of 802.11b products.
[March 12, 2002, 17:09]
Microsoft Launches Home Networking Hardware
News Another 45 percent said they would buy networking gear within six months. Supporting products such as Tablet PC with home networking gear could mean more to Microsoft in the long run than actual sales, analysts say.
[September 19, 2002, 15:50]
Stronger Wi-Fi Security Spec Nearing Approval
News Previous security measures, such as Wired Equivalent Privacy, were easily broken by hackers, leaving many security-conscious IT managers wary of wireless networking gear. A year later, companies slowly began buying wireless networking gear again.
[June 24, 2004, 9:00]
Wi-Fi Market Marches Ahead
News The Wi-Fi gear market continued to pick up pace last year, with shipments and revenue rising exponentially as prices fell and customers adopted new technology, according to a new report. It also said that prices for 802.11g devices will fall as new...
[January 15, 2004, 14:50]
