Press Release Archives

A slew of innovative startups are attempting to loosen Cisco Systems Inc.’s (Nasdaq: CSCO – message board) grip on the emerging wireless VOIP market, according to the latest Unstrung Insider. The report — Wireless VOIP: The Path to Enterprise Fixed/Mobile Convergence — assesses vendor development of voice over WLAN (VOWLAN) technology and the recent glut of high-level partnerships among handset, IP telephony, and WLAN infrastructure suppliers that is pushing the pace of integration and interoperability (see VOWLAN Gets a Kickstart and Roll On, Wireless VOIP). Continue reading →

A few weeks ago Meru made the headlines for signing the largest contract to date to build a WiFi voice network. The network would link up to 10,000 staff at 50 offices of Osaka Gas, one of Japan’s largest utilities. The employees will use converged handsets capable of making mobile calls on the Japanese FOMA system and in-building WiFi calls using SIP. Networking vendor Juniper has adopted Meru’s innovative WiFi architecture for voice over WiFi, and perhaps there is a hint here as to Juniper’s Continue reading →

An update on this wi-fi suite spot

Ember today announced continued global expansion with the opening of new international facilities and the signing of new international customers and distributors. The company also announced some major milestone achievements for the first half of 2005 to further strengthen Ember’s position in the ZigBee wireless networking market. ZigBee is an embedded wireless network standard that solves the unique needs of remote monitoring and control, and sensor network applications.     Ember opened a new research and business facility in Cambridge, England, to accommodate expansion of the Continue reading →

AirMagnet’s recent self-serving press release, which essentially highlighted its relatively new Spectrum Analyzer, noted that the abundance of non-Wi-Fi-generated interference at the annual DefCon Convention (for hackers of all kinds) actually caused more disruption than the more conventional wireless attacks. The sad reality is that high-tech conventions and conferences are swamped with unintentional interference in the 2.4-GHz band from hastily deployed building- and booth-specific APs (access points), Wi-Fi-enabled laptops, Bluetooth devices and the microwaves that heat the overpriced food. Tenants stacked in multistory buildings in Continue reading →

Editor's Perspective

This edition looks at Colubris Networks' InMotion MultiService Controller, ZyXel Communications' ZyAir G-2000, Avocent Corp.'s DETwo and Draconis Software's RSP 2.0.

As larger and more diverse enterprise and public wireless LAN networks are deployed, some vendors are resorting to channel tricks to beef up performance. Specifically, they’re looking to divide and prioritize different traffic types, therefore adding capacity to their networks. The idea is that by separating voice, video, and data on a network, the most crucial packets can be delivered first. Of course, such tactics can’t avoid the fact that 802.11 wireless LAN is a shared medium and performance will suffer if there is too Continue reading →

Net One Systems To Sell Colubris WLAN As Part Of Complete Solution In Japan

Companies enhance wireless IPSec