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Posts with the tag Wireless...

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Sprint AIRAVE

Ok… so we haven’t had the best of luck with Sprint (see here, and here) and while our company is slowly moving toward AT&T due to “some device” that came out in the last few months, I do have to hand it to Sprint for be one of the first companies to actually release a…

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Seagate’s Portable WiFi / Bluetooth HD Solution: DAVE

A few days ago, Seagate released a statement about some new technology that they have dubbed “DAVE” (Digital Audio Video Experience). From the release: Using Bluetooth or WiFi connections, DAVE is the answer to providing substantial storage capacity without impacting the design or cost of mobile handsets. Built for portability and about the size of…

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US Municipalities Offering Free Wi-Fi

My hometown of Madison, WI has just announced that they’ll be rolling out a free Wi-Fi network to the whole city. They join just a few other cities nationwide (San Francisco and Philadelphia included) to move in this direction. While I’m all for the offering of free internet, I continue to be a little weary…

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Free Neighborhood Wi-Fi

Everyone wants city-wide wireless, but it just ain’t happening yet :) Somewhere, somebody has to get paid. Until then, we must depend on innovative inventors such as John Geraci to bring us free wireless. Geraci, inventor of Neighbornode, came up with a genius idea of sharing his Wi-Fi Internet with others while also promoting ‘community’….

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vonage, linksys promotion

Linksys is running a promotion along with Vonage which looks to be a pretty good deal, if you’ve been wanting to try out Vonage’s service anyway: Vonage and router-manufacturer Linksys have partnered to create what they hope will be an offer customers can’t refuse. Starting on June 12, and for six weeks after, consumers will…

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Gartner Wireless recommendations

Gartner recently restated their recommendations for wireless deployment: Last October, Gartner changed its overall recommendation for basic WLAN technology from 802.11b only to 802.11a/g. In a session today, Gartner restated its position on which physical standards should be selected for notebooks and access points. Notebooks, which tax networks the most with bandwidth needs, should be…

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wimaxcoop

This is fantastic news — a cooperative has been started in Nashville called WimaxCoop to serve as an advocate for consumer broadband wireless access: Wimaxcoop will help communities and businesses take control of their broadband by using the cooperative as a legal form to pool resources for Wimax installation. In an effort to explore novel…

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E1/T1 over WiMax?

From the EE Times: MANHASSET, N.Y. — Zarlink Semiconductor and Wavesat announced they have successfully tested the transmission of E1 and T1services over a WiMAX broadband access network, using Zarlink’s packet switching technology. … “Combining our WiMAX chipset and Zarlink’s ZL50120 CESoP processor will allow operators to carry circuit-switched voice and T1/E1 services over WiMAX…