BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Flarion Technologies has completed a successful demonstration of a seamless handoff between an 802.11b wireless local area network and a mobile wide area network, the company announced December 18.
Conducted in its headquarters town of Bedminster, N.J., the test involved people working on a laptop computer and a personal digital assistant connected to a LAN. They continued in an uninterrupted fashion to use these devices while in a car that drove between two intersecting macular cell sites at speeds reaching those typical on highways.
In the demonstration, Flarion used off-the-shelf network hardware and software, along with its branded flash-OFDM PC modem cards for the devices and RadioRouter base stations as the air interface.
“This breakthrough addresses two key goals which are critical to the emergence of the mobile data market: mobility and WAN-to-LAN interoperability,” said Ray Dolan, president and chief executive officer of Flarion.
“Working together with licensed operators around the world, we can now look forward to the day when broadband access to the Internet can be presumed regardless of time and place.”
