Eric Griffith

Fountain Valley, California-based D-Link says its router and network card are the first two products to get certification from the Wi-Fi Alliance for interoperability between products supporting the 2.0 draft of 802.11n. (The first after the testbed of products they were tested with, that is.) The products are the $180 D-Link Xtreme N Gigabit Router […]

At future WiMax events, attendees will have an option of getting certified training on the technology. The WiMax Forum industry consortium worked with California-based DoceoTech and London-based Informa Telecoms & Media to create the WiMax Forum Certified Training Program, a suite of coursework for both technical and business types. WiMax, of course, is the very […]

Analysts at Dell’Oro Group say that in the last year, products based on the early draft of 802.11n have garnered revenue north of $150 million. That’s been held up only by high prices and lack of interoperability certification, both of which will change this year. Add to that the plans by the enterprise vendors to […]

Intel’s (Quote) latest Centrino chipset — the Centrino Pro, formerly code-named “Santa Rosa” — has officially debuted in a number of laptops. The consumer version is called Centrino Duo. Both chipsets feature the Core 2 Duo chips, the DirectX 10-compatible Mobile 965 Express chipset, Intel Turbo flash-based memory built in for caching data, and, on […]

Remember when Helio branched into wireless broadband? Well, apparently neither did anyone else, as the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) (define) has dropped the service. In October of 2006, Helio said it would offer EV-DO (define) service over the Sprint Nextel (Quote) 3G network. It was also going to offer Wi-Fi hotspot connections using the […]

Talk of Wi-Fi in the skies is again on the rise after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) (define) announced this week that cellular phones on passenger flights would be a big no-no. Even the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) agreed. The question remained, what about other types of wireless for Internet connections? Apparently, that’s […]

Openairboston.net (OAB), the nonprofit that will run an eventual citywide Wi-Fi network for the city of Boston, has issued a Request for Information (RFI) with the goal of finding a system integrator to build out the eventual network. The nonprofit was first announced in the summer of 2006, saying it wanted to raise $16 to […]

Wi-Fi signals going long distances are nothing new — many contests have been held to see how far the signals can be extended, year after year. But this one isn’t a contest: Intel (Quote) has set up a Wi-Fi link in downtown San Francisco that it claims is capable of reaching 60 miles (100 kilometers). […]

EE Times of Asia is reporting that NXP Semiconductors of the Netherlands (formerly Philips Semiconductors) will start sampling a new Wi-Fi chip to customers that may be the smallest yet. The GBM220 chip supports 802.11b/g and integrates the radio, baseband and MAC in a single 81-pin package that measures 5 x 5 mm. A single […]

Citywide wireless networks have almost become the norm these days, but there’s another area in which the mesh network providers excel: smaller deployments for public safety. This week, two such deployments were announced with a primary focus on performing surveillance for the police. The Jordan Downs public housing complex in Los Angeles is now home […]