Making It Wireless networks that save both money and energy -- what's not to like?
ONE SUMMER DAY IN 2007, two 20-something computer geeks set out to test a new brand of wireless Internet router in an apartment building in Brookline, Mass.
Convinced that most commercially available routers were costly and ineffi cient, Ken Carnesi and Jonathan Rust had discovered an equipment line manufactured by the California startup Meraki. With a few strategically placed Meraki routers and a little experimentation, they built an ad hoc network that enabled them to get online from just about anywhere in Jonathan's 20-unit building. MORE >
Source: Vanesssa M. Gezari -Washington Post | 03/30/2009
Students at New York's Farmingdale State College Get High-Speed Wireless Access With Meru 802.11n WLAN
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Students at New York's Farmingdale State College now have access to high-speed wireless Internet access in their dormitories, library and classrooms using a campus-wide IEEE 802.11n draft 2.0 wireless LAN from Meru Networks.
During 2008 Farmingdale State College upgraded its existing Meru WLAN from the 802.11a/b/g standards to 802.11n, letting users access the Internet and share files at speeds up to five times greater than those supported by the earlier standards. The WLAN's 200 access points are installed in approximately 20 buildings on the 380-acre Long Island campus. MORE >
Source: Business Wire / Smart Brief | 03/27/2009
Informa: Mobile broadband will by growth engine by 2013
Informa Telecoms & Media predicts mobile broadband subscribers will represent nearly one third of total mobile subscribers worldwide by 2013. The firm said mobile broadband subscribers jumped 84 percent to 186 million at the end of 2008 compared with 101 million at the end of 2007. MORE >
Source: Lynnette Luna - Fierce Broadband | 03/27/2009
Can DOD deliver wireless Internet to the battlefield?
The Pentagon has plenty of challenging problems. Many of them involve turning the 20th century war machine into a 21st century one. It has made great progress toward net-centricity, but one of its biggest remaining problems is a multi billion-dollar push to deliver wireless IP communications to the battlefield. Is this too difficult a problem to solve MORE >
Source: Fierce Government | 03/26/2009
WiMAX Cuts Through Highway Fog
There are deadly hazards in the fog that blankets California's rural Central Valley every winter, but a WiMAX network may now help warn motorists of what looms ahead of them and prevent accidents.
After a chain of crashes on a November day in 2007 killed two people and wrecked about 100 cars, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) set out to develop a solution. The result was a warning system called Fog Pilot, now in place on the stretch of road where that 2007 incident took place, that includes sensors and a series of electronic signs that tell drivers if traffic is slowing ahead. The components of that system, strung along Highway 99 in an area of mostly farmland, are linked via a private WiMAX network MORE >
Source: By Stephen Lawson , IDG News Service | 03/26/2009
Advantages Of WIMAX Bring About New Challenges
WiMAX, which stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access and is a form of broadband wireless access, is based on the IEEE 802.16 standard for wireless metropolitan-area networks (mans). Widespread deployment of the technology is expected over the next three to five years, driven by WiMAX's ability to deliver affordable "Last Mile" broadband Internet services. Many of the companies entering the WiMAX market include those that have dominated the WLAN arena. As engineers schooled in WLAN tackle this emerging standard, they face many different system considerations, especially in terms of RF requirements and architectures. MORE >
Source: By Darcy Poulin, SiGe Semiconductor Inc. Wireless Net DesignLine | 03/26/2009
Alliance Formed to Drive Deployment of Devices Taking Advantage of Next-Generation 4G WiMAX Wireless Technology
India Telecom 2008, New Delhi, India, Dec. 11, 2008 - At one of India's leading telecommunication conference, Sriram Viswanathan, Intel vice president and general manager of the WiMAX Program Office, announced that MORE >
Source: | 03/25/2009
Intel and the WiMAX Forum®
Intel and the WiMAX Forum® India to Bring Affordable WiMAX-Ready Devices to India 11 Dec 2008 MORE >
Source: | 03/25/2009
Cities Use WiMAX to Create Municipal Wireless Networks
Over the past several years, hundreds of U.S. cities launched municipal wireless initiatives, as widespread wireless Internet access became the latest must-have for local officials bent on keeping their communities economically competitive. But that activity cooled significantly in the latter half of 2007 MORE >
Source: Jan 18, 2008 - By Andy Opsahl | 03/25/2009
PORTLAND, Ore. - January 22, 2009 - The WiMAX Forum®
PORTLAND, Ore. - January 22, 2009 - The WiMAX Forum® today announced the launch of its Global Roaming Program that allows operators and vendors to easily obtain the information required to establish WiMAX roaming services. The program is now MORE >
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