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Wednesday, September 24, 2003 |
Source: Ziff Davis
Building a Wireless Home Media Network Server
What's the point of having a speedy wireless network if you don't have any interesting bits to push over those airwaves? In this week's Go Wireless installment, we'll show you how to assemble a "media furnace" that can serve up content, to both your wireless and wired clients.
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6:23:48 PM 
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Free or Fee?
The Merc has a real general story about Wi-Fi that looks briefly at the free vs. fee topic: The author concludes that free will be the norm in the future, but he somehow draws that conclusion by making the point that today most users have their service paid for them by their companies. I don't think that's an argument for why Wi-Fi will ultimately be free. It could turn out to be like cellular where some users have their service paid for by companies but others are willing to dig into their own pockets. One analyst makes a good point in the piece though. He says that until more of the operators sign roaming agreements with each other instead of promoting their exclusive networks the market will remain chaotic. It seems like the market is moving in that direction and roaming should open up the market....
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6:23:46 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Wi-Fi Laptops are Costly for Enterprises
Gartner says the total cost of ownership for enterprises of Wi-Fi-enabled laptops can be as high as $325 a year: That figure can include subscriptions to multiple service providers but also includes costs associated with technical support. The study does note, however, that some users incur lower costs of ownership because they work at home so are more productive....
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6:23:45 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Atheros Meets AMD
Atheros is partnering with AMD: This looks to be an attempt by these companies to make themselves attractive to laptop makers by offering them a platform that includes the Atheros 802.11a/b/g chipset combined with AMD's 64-bit processor. Glenn notes that there's nothing said here about any sort of integration between the two companies' products. So basically these guys are trying to tell laptop manufacturers that an AMD processor and Atheros 802.11 chipset will make a better product then anything based on Intel's Centrino platform....
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6:23:44 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Not to Buy into the Hype...
Along with Intel's unwired day tomorrow comes a bit of marketing spam from all the companies involved. Here and there are some interesting bits of information though. T-Mobile offered up a couple of somewhat useful tidbits. For example, users are spending on average 45 minutes per session. Which means that coffee shops may not have to worry about folks camping for hours once they get Wi-Fi. T-Mobile also says that the number of unique users has increased by 400 percent since January. That's not the most useful figure without knowing how many users that amounts to but still indicates some growth. The operator also came up with a slew of tallies for how many hotspots it has up and running. By the end of 2003, it hopes to have 4,000 in place....
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6:23:42 PM
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Source: Extremetech
Building a Wireless Home Media Network Server
What's the point of having a speedy wireless network if you don't have any interesting bits to push over those airwaves? In this week's Go Wireless installment, we'll show you how to assemble a "media furnace" that can serve up content, to both your wireless and wired clients.
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6:23:41 PM
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What Power over Ethernet could do for your organization
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>Today's focus: The power of Power over Ethernet
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>By Sandra Gittlen
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>When the IEEE approved the 802.3af standard earlier this year,
>it opened the floodgates to a technology that has the "power" to
>propel other important technologies forward.
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>The 802.3af standard, otherwise known as "Power over Ethernet,"
>is serving as a driver for wireless networking as well as voice
>over IP. Both will thrive off the benefits offered by this
>standard.
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>In short, Power over Ethernet is a way to get electrical power
>to devices without having to run electrical wiring or need
>outlets close by. The power is derived from the cabling already
>connected to the devices. It uses "spare" pairs in traditional
>Ethernet wiring to deliver "juice" to free-standing devices.
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>This is great for voice over IP-enabled phones and wireless LAN
>access points. Other devices such as IP-enabled security cameras
>can also take advantage of this technology.
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>On our Wireless LANs Technology Tour, which wraps up this week
>in Houston and San Jose, we've discussed how important Power
>over Ethernet is in extending wireless networks. If IT
>organizations had to string power cords to ceiling-based access
>points, there could be problems. Also, if the IT group wanted to
>offer wireless access points outside the building, powering them
>up would prove costly and challenging.
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>Power over Ethernet alleviates the need for this and lets one
>set of cables serve as the end-all, be-all for these devices.
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>The situation is similar with VoIP-enabled phones. Rather than
>having to run two lines into the phone, IT organizations can run
>a simple LAN cable, reducing the complexity of VoIP networks. It
>also allows for greater flexibility in placing the phones in
>various locations that might not have power outlets readily
>available.
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>And the question of what to do in the case of a power failure is
>answered by adding an uninterruptible power supply to the
>Ethernet switch the devices are connected to.
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>Measures must be taken at the Ethernet switch, however, to
>monitor the power being delivered out to the devices and great
>care must be given to how many devices are drawing power from a
>central source.
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>But these are minor issues compared to the benefits of Power
>over Ethernet.
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>What do you think? Will Power over Ethernet be the killer
>"enabler" for WLANs and voice over IP? Let me know at
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>RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS
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>Network World Encyclopedia: Power over Ethernet
>http://www.nwfusion.com/links/Encyclopedia/0-9/4681.html
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>802.3af powers up LAN, lowers cost
>Network World, 03/10/03
>http://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2003/0310tech.html
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6:17:40 PM
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Source: C|Net
Microsoft drops BellSouth DSL deal
The software giant is ending a two-year-old broadband access deal with BellSouth, as it continues to reposition its MSN service for the high-speed Internet.
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3:43:51 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Not to Buy into the Hype...
Along with Intel's unwired day tomorrow comes a bit of marketing spam from all the companies involved. Here and there are some interesting bits of information though. T-Mobile offered up a couple of somewhat useful tidbits. For example, users are spending on average 45 minutes per session. Which means that coffee shops may not have to worry about folks camping for hours once they get Wi-Fi. T-Mobile also says that the number of unique users has increased by 400 percent since January. That's not the most useful figure without knowing how many users that amounts to but still indicates some growth. The operator also came up with a slew of tallies for how many hotspots it has up and running. By the end of 2003, it hopes to have 4,000 in place....
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10:30:50 AM
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