[OCCalWUG] News that's changing the Wireless World! Tuesday, January 27, 2004 Source: Userland.com AT&T Wireless Stakeholder Makes a Move NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest mobile phone operator, took a step on Tuesday to join the bidding war for AT&T Wireless, intensifying the intrigue and global gamesmanship gripping the cellular industry. Source Link 11:08:09 PM    comment [] Source: Userland.com AT&T Wireless Stakeholder Makes a Move NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest mobile phone operator, took a step on Tuesday to join the bidding war for AT&T Wireless, intensifying the intrigue and global gamesmanship gripping the cellular industry. Source Link 8:11:59 PM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Planet Mesh Standard on the Starting Block Interoperability between mesh networks could someday be a reality as the IEEE wraps its first 802.11 mesh study meeting. Source Link 3:06:49 PM    comment [] Source: InfoWorld Atheros to release single-chip 802.11g product Atheros Communications will release a single-chip 802.11g product in the second quarter that lowers the cost of placing that technology in notebooks or personal digital assistants (PDAs), Atheros said Monday. Source Link 3:00:59 PM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Planet Consider the TCO As security becomes less of a issue, addressing the total cost of ownership could become the next major concern for network managers looking to go wireless. Source Link 2:50:31 PM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Planet Standards Meeting Yields No New Letters The bi-monthly meeting of the group that sets 802.11 standards didn't deliver any surprises but made steady progress on new specifications. Source Link 2:50:29 PM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Networking News Cops in North Miami Beach to Get Wi-Fi The North Miami Beach Police Department is building a Wi-Fi network using Tropos gear: The police had used a CDPD network to access data but the operator is shutting down its CDPD network. The department expects to save a bundle by not having to pay an operator a monthly fee for using the network. The Wi-Fi network currently only covers a few square blocks but plans call for it to stretch five square miles. That's not a very big area so I wonder what the cops will do outside of that area.... Source Link 2:48:29 PM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Networking News Amtrak Planning More Wi-Fi Amtrak is planning to deploy hotspots in six more stations in the northeast: The setup may be different in those stations than in Washington, D.C.'s Union Station where the network is only available in the first class passenger lounge. Amtrak has high hopes for the new networks, expecting to see around 1 million users a day. Amtrak hasn't announced whether the hotspots will be free to use or come with a fee.... Source Link 2:48:27 PM    comment [] Source: InfoWorld Vendors, carriers eye WiMax wireless broadband Manufacturers and service providers looked at the emerging WiMax wireless technology this week and saw a possible rival to wired broadband services -- at the end of what some see as a long standardization process. Source Link 2:48:26 PM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Networking News BridgePort Gets Funding BridgePort Networks secured a $10 million investment from Polaris Venture Partners and General Catalyst Partners: The company will use the money for product development and market expansion. BridgePort offers technology targeted at cellular carriers that integrates cell networks with Wi-Fi networks. Customers could seamlessly roam from one to the other using voice and data services. The network architecture is probably more complicated than it needs to be but BridgePort is appealing to the needs of the mobile operators. In a nutshell, BridgePort's solution routes all data or voice traffic from Wi-Fi networks through a BridgePort gateway. That way the cellular operator can track and charge for all usage. The setup is ideal for cellular operators who don't want to hand customers off onto a Wi-Fi network where they stand to loose revenues if they can't track usage.... Source Link 2:48:25 PM    comment [] Source: InfoWorld Update: TI looks for EDGE with new cell phone reference design Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced its first chipset for EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) networks, a stepping stone on the road to 3G (third generation) wireless networks, it said Tuesday. Source Link 2:48:24 PM    comment [] Source: InfoWorld Vendors drive voice over WLAN standard - Infoworld Staff Deploying voice over WLANs may soon become more commonplace, as leading WLAN equipment vendors are rallying support for a fast roaming standard. Source Link 2:48:22 PM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Planet Extending the AP Architecture Colubris says its new wireless Extension Architecture makes WLANs easier and cheaper than switches. Source Link 2:48:21 PM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Planet Atheros Rolls One Die With 802.11g The Wi-Fi chipmaker pushes ahead with its consumer plans for WLAN technology. Source Link 2:48:20 PM    comment [] Source: InfoWorld Kyocera, CPSC recall explosive cell phone batteries Kyocera Wireless has issued a recall of cell phone batteries used in one of its smart phones after discovering the batteries can explode, the company said Friday in conjunction with the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission. Source Link 2:48:19 PM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Planet Service Model Security A new wireless ISP for small-to-medium businesses lifts off today with the promise of providing extra security to customers as simply as possible. Source Link 2:48:17 PM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Planet A Broad Patent for Hotspots Last week, Nomadix announced that it has been awarded a patent covering key aspects of revenue generation at hotspots. We asked Nomadix's co-founder and CTO how the company plans to use its new power. Source Link 2:48:16 PM    comment [] © 2004 [OCCalWUG] Last Update: 2/2/2004; 7:28:41 AM

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