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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003 |
Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
It's Not a Model: It's One-to-One Scale
This sounds like the biggest toy train set in the world: Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. use Wi-Fi to remotely control their engines in trainyards. You can't make this stuff up. Less amusing and more interesting, the company wants to look into opening up their private microwave network to public cellular and data communications as a way to provide service in underserved areas....
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9:33:31 PM 
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Operators Wary of WiMax, Study Says
Fixed wireless operators aren't exactly jumping up and down in anticipation of its arrival, but at least one major carrier could be a likely suspect to deploy WiMax.
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1:09:12 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
A University's Real-Time Wi-Fi Usage Map
See usage across Carnegie-Mellon's campus Wi-Fi network: Three maps present a view of activity and accessibility across the university's Wi-Fi network. It's a great visualization of how a network is being used presented in a way that a non-technical user can understand. [via Warchalking via Jeff Pittelkau]...
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12:37:41 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
"A Chip in Every Pot"
Research firm In-Stat/MDR expects to see chips in almost everything in the home, including pots: The firm predicts that the networking silicon market will grow from $650 million in 2002 to $1.07 billion this year, driven by Wi-Fi and other networking technologies. In fact, wireless LANs will be the biggest revenue opportunity for this market, according to the study....
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11:23:16 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Aruba Targets Middle Market
Aruba came out with a WLAN switch designed for medium-sized businesses: The initial WLAN switch products were designed for the large enterprises but that was troublesome for smaller companies for which the products were overkill. I've seen some WLAN switch products recently designed for small, branch offices and now it looks like the product developers may start targeting the middle market. Targeting the medium sized businesses is a good idea because it's probably not that hard to scale the original products down which opens up a broader market for these companies....
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11:23:15 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Legra's WPA Gets Certified
Legra claims to be the first WLAN switch vendor to have its WPA certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance: The others should follow....
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11:23:13 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Iogear Intros New Products
Iogear has an 802.11g USB 2.0 adapter that lets users rotate the device to point in various directions in search of optimum reception: It retails for $89.95. Iogear also came out with a regular 802.11g network card for $69.95. The press release doesn't seem to be up yet but should appear here eventually....
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11:23:11 AM
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