Jeff Goldman

AT&T recently launched its AT&T Business in a Box service, designed to make IP communications user-friendly for small and mid-size businesses. Included with Business in a Box is AT&T’s hosted IP PBX service called Voice DNA, a managed T-1, and the company’s Business in a Box router (see images, below), which includes Wi-Fi, firewall, Power […]

Manuel Kasper developed the embedded firewall software package m0n0wall back in 2002, he says, while experimenting with embedded x86-based computers. “Having just succeeded at stripping down FreeBSD enough to make it run on a Soekris net4501 board… and deploying it for use as a home firewall/NAT router, I wanted to go one step further,” he […]

Last week, Broadcom introduced its first single-chip 802.11n solution, the Intensi-fi BCM4322, which uses 65-nanometer process technology to minimize both the chip’s size and its power consumption. The BCM4322 combines the MAC, baseband, power amplifiers, and radios on a single die.   The company’s previous-generation 802.11n product was a two-chip solution using 130-nanometer and 180-nanometer […]

Ingate Systems and Multi-Tech Systems have announced a strategic alliance to help enterprises extend SIP-based VoIP deployments to their branch offices. Ingate provides firewall solutions that enable SIP-based communication without sacrificing security, and Multi-Tech manufactures VoIP gateways and other networking products. Multi-Tech’s branch office solution is the MultiVOIP SS Survivable SIP Gateway and Server. “We […]

Two recent reports from research firms TelecomView and IDC offer slightly different perspectives on the potential market for WiMax technology. Both see the technology—now with another delay for true interoperability, according to America’s Network — as extremely influential. In fact, the TelecomView report, entitled “Wireless Broadband: Will it Replace 3G and Fixed Broadband,” suggests that […]

This week, TeleCIS Wireless announced a plan to enter the WiMax market by developing System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions that combine both Wi-Fi and WiMax technologies. The company’s fixed WiMax chip is planned for release in the second half of 2005, with a combined fixed/mobile WiMax chip to follow in the second half of 2006. In 2007, […]