[OCCalWUG] News that's changing the Wireless World! Friday, August 29, 2003 Source: 80211-Planet.com This high-end surveillance tool combines Proxim's long-range Wi-Fi solution with solar panels, backup batteries, directional antennas, and digital video to keep tabs on remote locations you can't wire. Link: http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3069261 6:10:05 PM    comment [] Source: 80211-Planet.com The long wait while you tumble dry your freshly laundered apparel at the local laundromat could be more tolerable with Wi-Fi Internet access. Serynade Wireless hopes its enough that customers will pay for the privilege. Link: http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3069521 6:10:01 PM    comment [] Source: 80211-Planet.com Internet users may find a new place to dwell — connected hotel rooms and Wi-Fi lobbies. Link: http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3069901 6:09:55 PM    comment [] What are location determination algorithms?. Q. How do location determination algorithms work for wireless LANs? How accurate are they? Can one detect mobility using these algorithms? [Network World on Wireless Switches] 3:47:10 PM    comment [] Aruba boosts wireless LAN management. Aruba Wireless Networks this week plans to unveil software designed to give its switch customers more control over wireless LANs. [Network World on Wireless Switches] 3:43:23 PM    comment [] Two big trends fuel expected Wi-Fi boom in businesses. The wireless network industry seems to be striving to make wireless LAN connectivity as commonly available as dial-up Internet access. [Network World on Wireless Switches] 3:40:56 PM    comment [] WLAN chip designer secures new funding. Engim, a fabless silicon design start-up that has designed a chipset to boost the capacity of wireless LAN access points by up to 50 times, has raised $18.5 million in a second round of equity financing. [Network World on Wireless and Mobile] 3:40:35 PM    comment [] New top-level changes at Proxim. Top-level changes continue at Proxim, which has named as its new chief financial officer, David Thompson, who formerly held the same post at Entrust and earlier had been vice president of finance for Nortel. [Network World on Wireless and Mobile] 3:35:57 PM    comment [] Microsoft Wins OK for Xbox Wireless Adapter. Microsoft has won federal approval for a wireless adapter for its Xbox video game console that allows players to connect to the Internet without cabling. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] 3:35:04 PM    comment [] Wandering London for Wi-Fi. Intrepid reporters visit many hot spots, report on the experience, in London: An amusing report, the funniest part of which is that in none of the hot spots they examined did they spot any other users, despite being frequently reassured that several people used the service in various locations every day.... [Wi-Fi Networking News] 3:21:16 PM    comment [] Xbox Wireless Adapter Plans Leaked by FCC. The FCC posts the licensing approval for the Xbox adapter: Microsoft had asked for the filing to be repressed to prevent advance word of their announcement, but the FCC posted it by mistake, apparently. (You can almost always look up the FCC filings for any approved device.) It'll run at 54 Mbps.... [Wi-Fi Networking News] 3:20:59 PM    comment [] ZigBee vendor group to wireless-enable facilities monitoring. In a few years, you could find yourself responsible for yet another type of wireless network. I'm talking about IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee networks, slated to enable wireless monitoring and control of lights, security alarms, motion sensors, thermostats and smoke detectors in your office buildings. [Network World on Wireless and Mobile] 1:56:24 PM    comment [] Mobility changes everything. The mobile and wireless marketplace is growing rapidly. As technologists, we have become so enraptured with low-cost calling plans, new devices and a blanket of Wi-Fi that we risk missing the forest full of change because we're so enamored by the saplings of emerging technology. Demomobile 2003, to be held Sept. 17-19 in LaJolla, Calif., seeks to remedy this by spotlighting significant products and trends affecting the mobile and wireless market. [Network World on Wireless and Mobile] 1:55:47 PM    comment [] Revolutionary retailing a reality. German supermarket uses wireless, RFID to run business. [Network World on Wireless and Mobile] 1:46:33 PM    comment [] Wireline-to-wireless number portability expected. Major effect anticipated - Gartner [InfoWorld: Wireless] 1:45:57 PM    comment [] 802.11n, 802.15.3 join network stew. Last time, I discussed complementary efforts by the IEEE and a multivendor group called the ZigBee Alliance to build low-power, inexpensive networks for remote monitoring and control of widgets and sensors such as light switches and security alarms. [Network World on Wireless and Mobile] 1:26:39 PM    comment [] Wi-Fi Sails the High Seas. For years, mariners were stuck with pricey satellite services for Internet access at sea. Now a company is offering relatively affordable wireless Internet service that reaches up to 30 miles from shore. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News] 12:55:48 PM    comment [] If You Can See the Shore, You Might Get Wi-Fi. High fixed fees are still cheaper than the alternatives: It seems expensive to us landlubbers, but Wheat Wireless's rates are an inexpensive alternative to satellite, which can't deliver the performance, either.... [Wi-Fi Networking News] 11:05:08 AM    comment [] Daewoo takes Wi-Fi Video Mainstream. ViXS Systems says major consumer electronics maker Daewoo is not only using its video networking chips and software in demos, but will be the first to market with wireless multimedia products for the living room. [News] 11:04:28 AM    comment [] Intel plans wireless, digital home R&D center in Korea. Projects planned include UWB and WiMax wireless technologies [InfoWorld: Wireless] 10:57:52 AM    comment [] Case Western Opens Its Network to Cleveland. Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland makes its academic Wi-Fi network open to the public: It's an ambitious project that allows the public to take advantage of an expensive, but bursty and abundant service. The university has over 1,200 access points, and unless it's a unique case, there must be businesses, apartments, and houses sprawled all around and on top of it that can take advantage, as well as visitors to the campus. The project is labeled OneCleveland. Via email, I asked Lev S. Gonick, the university's chief information office, how the network separated authenticated traffic and public traffic. The 1230+ APs are segmented into 6 VLANs that ride external to the Enterprise (OneCleveland) infrastructure. Users (guests) are assigned an IP range outside the enterprise space and can VPN to any network, including those of course in University Circle with proper authentication. Otherwise it's [using] shared bandwidth on the VLAN. The university is also using packet shaping to control traffic flows. Dr. Gonick said that the group would put up network diagrams and other information. Case could become a case study for how universities and communities can work together, and might extend on some of the public/private partnerships for municipal Wi-Fi currently in the works. The key, of course, is keeping private network traffic separate. As more hardware and software emerges that makes this simpler, or just a basic part of running the network, extending public access becomes a no-brainer: you give the people what's not in use, which is almost always going to be plenty.... [Wi-Fi Networking News] 10:57:10 AM    comment [] Bridging Made Easy. Wirelessly bridging wireless networks with Wireless Distribution System (wirelessly): WDS is a very simple idea: it allows an access point to act like a port on an Ethernet switch. With this simple idea, Apple, Linksys, Buffalo, and others have finally implemented inexpensive and simple-to-configure bridges. What's better, Apple and Buffalo, to name two, allow their access points to work as APs and bridges simultaneously, which can let you create a cloud of access instead of a little pool. It also reduces costs. In a shocking discovery, which I write about in this article, you can use Buffalo and Apple equipment together in WDS mode. Buffalo's roughly $100 access point (WLA-G54) pairs with Apple's $200-$250 AirPort Extreme Base Station, which has all the gateway features you need. There's even a Windows configuration utility available for it (in beta testing).... [Wi-Fi Networking News] 10:52:37 AM    comment [] © 2003 [OCCalWUG] Last Update: 9/2/2003; 6:16:57 PM

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