[OCCalWUG] News that's changing the Wireless World! Sunday, May 23, 2004 Source: eWEEK Technology News CA Takes WLAN Management Plunge With its new Unicenter Wireless Site Management system, the company aims to simplify deployment and offer greater automation. Source Link 9:59:55 PM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Networking News Managing 802.11b Risk for Enterprises Enterprises are reacting sensibly to the issue of low-speed (20 Mbps or slower) Wi-Fi interference techniques documented by Australian researchers: It's not so much a flaw as a part of the spec that allows a certain kind of attack to disable an access point; there are many others of varying degree of severity, too, including just bringing an unpleasant 2.4 GHz cordless phone into an office and leaving it turned on without a connection to a cordless base station. The reaction cited in this Computerworld article is sensible: managers are examining their risk and noting that with many access points, an attacker would have to attack numerous locations at once to have an effect, and would then be vulnerable to physical detection. All 802.11a and any 802.11g networks running at faster encodings (using OFDM) can't be attacked in this fashion, either.... Source Link 6:55:05 PM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Networking News Offices Move to Cell, Wi-Fi Combo to Cut Costs, Increase Flexibility Profile of two Hawaiian businesses shows that cutting landlines decreases cost and increases connectivity: The trend might be starting to show where businesses can easily turn over from a wired landline PBX and cell phones outside of the office, to a Wi-Fi and optionally Ethernet based voice and data infrastructure in the office coupled with cellular voice and cellular data on the road.... Source Link 11:55:05 AM    comment [] © 2004 [OCCalWUG] Last Update: 6/1/2004; 2:48:17 AM

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