Eric Griffith

Networld+Interop is underway at the Las Vegas Convention Center and there’s no lack of news from vendors who support use of Wi-Fi in enterprise networks. Airespace, one of the up-and-comers in the crowded field of WLAN switch products, is launching a number of new features for its platform. First is a new product it calls […]

Say you’ve got a management system for your wireless LAN from Wavelink, an authentication security system using 802.1X server and clients from Funk Software, and security and monitoring components from AirMagnet. How do you make them work together? Supposedly, you don’t have to do anything. The three companies mentioned above are entering into partnerships for […]

Last year, Intel Corp.’s “Most Unwired Cities” survey said Portland, Ore., was the top spot to find hotspots. Now some different methods of measuring the status of “unwiredness” have pushed the tech haven of San Francisco to the top of this year’s list (pushing Portland down to number five). The survey was conducted by Bert […]

It has long been acknowledged that mixed-mode wireless networks — those that simultaneously run clients with both 802.11b and the five times faster 802.11g, which both operate in the 2.4GHz radio band — can suffer speedwise. Specifically, the use of the slower 802.11b can drag down throughput on 11g. A report out today conducted by […]

In 2004 it’s not just new Wi-Fi deployments to look forward to: the majority of current WLANs will be expanding. That’s the word from Sage Research of Natick, Mass. Its new report, “WLAN Adoption Trends 2004” says that 80 percent of existing WLAN users will be expanding their networks in the first half of the […]

As prices continue to drop on wireless LAN equipment for the home and SOHO market, one area stays somewhat pricey: dual-band hardware that supports both the 2.4GHz 802.11b/g and the 5GHz 802.11a. Most access point and router products on the market need two ‘chains’ of chips to get this kind of support. Dallas-based Texas Instruments […]

The trend seems to say: Wi-Fi users think they’re invulnerable. AirDefense , the Alpharetta, Georgia-based maker of wireless LAN security, monitoring and intrusion detection solutions, has handed in its usual report on the state of wireless use from a major tradeshow — in this case our own Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo which took place […]

SanDisk started selling a Secure Digital (SD) card that would support 802.11b in PDAs in late summer. The $129 product ships only with drivers for select Pocket PCs with an SDIO slot. The company said it would deliver drivers for Palm-based units with the same slot before 2003 was up (at one time SanDisk expected […]

Wi-Fi products are now available with support for the Super G speed boost promised months ago by Atheros Communications, the chipset maker behind many of the 802.11a, 802.11g, and dual-band wireless LAN products available today. In fact, one company, D-Link of Irvine, Calif., is providing the speed boost as a free upgrade. Netgear was first […]

When the Centrino Mobile brand for laptops — those with a Pentium-M chip coupled with embedded Wi-Fi for connectivity — shipped in March of 2003, Intel kicked it off with a multi-million dollar advertising blitz meant to get the word out that wireless had arrived. Now comes part two. Sean Connolly, Intel’s world wide advertising […]