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Tendril's Ember-enabled service broker uses Web Services technology to link sensor nets to business applications

OfficeTiger is the sort of young technology company that once created thousands of high-paying jobs in the USA, fueling sizzling economic growth. The 5-year-old business employs 200 in the USA. Yet it employs 2,000 more in southern India, with plans for hundreds more performing tech-heavy financial services and other tasks. None of those jobs got there through traditional “offshoring.” They were never in the USA to begin with. Nearly 40% of start-ups in a new USA TODAY study employ engineers, marketers, analysts and others in Continue reading →

VeriWave’s WaveTest is used to conduct Voice over IP performance validation of Colubris’ multi-service wireless LAN systems

Sources close to Juniper Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR – message board) say the company is still on the prowl for a wireless LAN switch vendor to acquire. They say the firm may be examining switch startup Trapeze Networks Inc. as a possible acquisition target. “They’re doing more than sniffing around,” notes one industry source. A spokesperson for Juniper refused to comment on “rumors and speculation” about acquisition possibilities. No one from Trapeze has returned calls about this matter yet. Unlike the majority of its major Continue reading →

Raymarine Develops Industry's First Wireless Boat Autopilot, Enabled by Ember's ZigBee-Ready Networking Technology

Ever since Cisco acquired wireless LAN switch maker Airespace three weeks ago, speculation has swirled about how router rival Juniper might respond. It’s no secret that Juniper, which until its acquisition of security vendor NetScreen Technologies last year focused exclusively on the service provider market, is looking to raise its profile in enterprise networking. Juniper also is shipping a new line of access routers developed for enterprise networks. Analysts expect Juniper to acquire companies this year to deepen its reach into the enterprise market – Continue reading →

http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3087291 Colubris Networks—which makes the access point equipment used by Connexion—said today that it’s hardware is also powering the Wi-Fi found in more than 100 marinas on the east coast of the U.S. being served by Beacon Wi-Fi. The company is using them to get the Colubris Multiservice WLAN technology, which allows for multiple virtual network services on the same infrastructure. Beacon uses it to separate traffic for Web surfing boaters from its wireless remote monitoring services to check on boats. They plan to add Continue reading →

http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?Art_ID=67885 Colubris Networks, a Waltham-based provider of multi-service WLAN systems, and Beacon Wi-Fi in Wilton, Conn., completed deployment of the Colubris Multiservice WLAN System at more than 100 marinas in 2004. Remote monitoring and voice services will be deployed over the existing Colubris Multiservice WLAN System in 2005. No financial details of the arrangement between Beacon and Colubris have been released. According to Chris Reitz, co-founder of Beacon Wi-Fi, his company uses the Colubris Multiservice WLAN System for its ability to carry multiple applications over Continue reading →

Consider Juniper Networks Inc. among the many networking companies scrambling to improve their wireless portfolios. According to sources, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company is working to buy a wireless LAN switching startup to keep pace with competitors such as Cisco Systems Inc., which earlier this month announced the acquisition of Airespace Inc. The move boosts Cisco in the burgeoning centrally managed, “thin access point” enterprise WLAN space. According to sources, Juniper also bid to acquire Airespace with an offer that fell far short of the $450 Continue reading →

LAN changes have ebbed and flowed on a nearly consistent five-year basis. In 1990, 10M bit/sec shared Ethernet emerged as the LAN standard – only to be usurped five years later by the introduction of Fast Ethernet and Ethernet switching. Between 1995 and 2000, two important innovations occurred: virtual LANs and Gigabit Ethernet. Now in 2005, the LAN market is about to make another fundamental transition: from virtual LANs to trusted LANs, which let secure internal networks be provisioned at high speeds whether transport is Continue reading →