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Friday, November 21, 2003 |
Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Listen to Rich Dean on Wireless Applications
The Capital Cabal is offering a free one-hour online chat with Rich Dean, a wireless applications expert: Dean's history is fascinating, and he's ideally positioned to talk about how wireless of all kinds of being applied to work and home. The chat is Dec. 10, 2003, at 1 pm Eastern U.S. time....
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1:33:21 PM 
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Excitement Builds Around MIMO
Researchers at Arc Chart wrote a paper offering a general description of MIMO, or multiple input, multiple output: The technology employs multiple antennas at the receiver and the transmitter which can ultimately have the effect of boosting throughput. Arc Chart positions MIMO in competition to folks like Atheros who have developed their own methods for increasing throughput on Wi-Fi gear. Apparently Intel has said it fully supports MIMO and plans to build the technology into all its future gear, including WiMAX. Intel also wants MIMO included in the 802.11n standard. For more background on MIMO, check this ZDNet article that ran in October....
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11:58:56 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
New Research is Unsettling
Jupiter Media found that just 1 percent of online consumers polled recently had paid to use a public hotspot: Six percent have used public hotspots. The report is full of similarly sobering figures. The report concludes a point that I think Michael Oh of NewburyOpen.net is proving, even though it's not his intention: hotspot operators will need to make money on something other than charging users for straight Internet access. Operators will need to realize internal productivity gains as well as third-party revenues--from services like Oh offers, such as printing--to get a return on the investments. So a hotspot will make the most sense to an airline, for example, that builds a network in gates where employees can benefit and the general public might pay to use the network for special services....
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11:58:54 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Switch vs. Gateway Still Confuses
The enterprise market in the U.K. is as confused as the market here when faced with an array of WLAN security and management solutions: The Bluesockets and ReefEdges of the world keep winning customers even though their products don't offer as much as the new switches. Perhaps that's an indication of the power of Cisco as many enterprises that choose gateway solutions do so for the option of buying APs from anyone, usually Cisco. D-Link seems notably absent from the group of vendors offering WLAN switches now that NetGear has a WLAN switch that can support 15 APs. Interestingly, this article refers to Broadcom's recent allegations about degradations caused by Atheros chips but notes that D-Link customers in the U.K. don't have to worry about the issue. That's because D-Link in Europe doesn't market the Super-G product that contains the Atheros chip. Spokespeople there say that's because D-Link wants better compatibility with previous products....
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11:58:53 AM
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Source: Wired.com
Having a Gas in Okefenokee Swamp
Locals tell many tales of odd goings-on in the Okefenokee Swamp. Wireless gadgets go on the fritz, glowing orbs of green light pursue lonely visitors, and wetland flatulence fills the air. Michelle Delio reports from Waycross, Georgia.
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2:36:01 AM
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