PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers has established a standard, 802.15.14, to allow the 802.15 technology to extend wireless communications to low-power, low-speed and low-cost devices."This is an enabling standard," said Pat Kinney, chair of IEEE 802.15 Task Group 4. "It builds...
PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has increased the speed of wireless personal area networks to 55 megabytes per second from 1 Mbps for broad use of multimedia, digital imaging, high-quality audio and other high-bandwidth applications."We created the standard in response to...
PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has increased the speed of wireless personal area networks to 55 megabytes per second from 1 Mbps for broad use of multimedia, digital imaging, high-quality audio and other high-bandwidth applications."We created the standard in response to...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-TTPCom Ltd. released its latest medium access controller (MAC) technology for developing next-generation Ultra Wide Band (UWB) systems and plans to demonstrate it at next week's IEEE 802 meeting in San Francisco. "TTPCom's MAC core is right at the forefront of developments in...
WASHINGTON-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Verizon Wireless asked a federal appeals court here to overturn a Federal Communications Commission ruling permitting mobile satellite service operators to use their frequencies to provide land-based mobile-phone communications."Converting a satellite-only authorization into a license for mixed satellite and...
The Wi-Fi Alliance said eight 802.11g products from six companies have received certification from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers.The companies include Atheros Inc., Broadcom Corp., Intersil Corp., Melco Inc., Proxim Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. Both Intersil and Atheros said they have...
PHILADELPHIA-This week's IEEE MTT-S 2003 trade show prompted power amplifier announcements from industry players, including RF Micro Devices Inc. and Analog Devices Inc.RF Micro Devices Inc. announced availability of the RF3146, the third generation of its PowerStar GSM power amplifier module, with integrated power...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The WiMAX Forum, an organization dedicated to the IEEE 802.16 and ETSI HiperMAN wireless MAN specifications, announced it has 18 new member companies and has completed initial system profiles for the interoperability of products operating in the 2 GHz to 11 GHz...
With the approval of the 802.11g standard by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a number of companies have started to announce plans to roll out products amid fears of technology bumps along the way.Although the IEEE approved the standard, the 802.11 working...
With the approval of the 802.11g standard by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a number of companies have started to announce plans to roll out products amid fears of technology bumps along the way.Although the IEEE approved the standard, the 802.11 working...
NEW YORK-Vernier Networks, Mountainview, Calif., will make commercially available in late April two new 6500p products, Access Manager and Integrated System, which are based on a draft wireless local area network standard governing Power over Ethernet.The 6500p line takes advantage of the four unused...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Despite the growing hype surrounding wireless local area networks (WLANs), the Austrian capital, Vienna, has claimed the number-one position for the city with the highest density of wireless hot spots. The local wireless Internet service provider (WISP), Metronet, maintained that its 136...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Perhaps wanting to recapture some of their "lost" wireless revenues due to 3G delays, Europe's major telecom companies have launched wireless local area network (WLAN) hot spot services. France T
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Describing the product introduction as networks in motion, Cisco Systems Inc. has rolled out a new mobile access router that will work in airplanes, ships, tanks and trains, raising the stakes for ubiquitous data coverage in the wireless world."Enabled by standards-based mobile...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Wireless Communications Association announced Dr. Roger B. Marks will deliver a keynote speech at its January 13, 2003, session.Marks, founder and chairman of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.16 Working Group on Broadband Wireless Access (BWA), will be chairing...
IRVINE, Calif.-Broadcom Corp. said it has introduced its AirForce BCM4702 network processor chip and the WiFi-compliant BCM94702AP reference design platform to support next-generation wireless local area network technologies."Broadcom complete reference design package enables manufacturers to build high-performance wireless local area network access points and...
TOKYO-SpeedNet, a telecom venture company in Japan, on Wednesday announced it launched an experiment for its wireless local area network (WLAN) services using the 5 GHz band. The experiment will be carried out through the end of December, the firm said.During the experiment, using...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-U.K.-based British Telecommunications has launched three wireless local area network (WLAN) "hot spots" in London to provide personal digital assistant (PDA) and laptop users with high-speed Internet access. The company said it plans to have 20 sites operational by August, 400 by...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, on Thursday announced that it will launch wireless local area network (WLAN) service on 1 July. The new service, called "Mzone," will be provided in nine locations in the Tokyo metropolitan area, including major hotels and...
TOKYO—NTT Communications, a long-distance and international business unit of the NTT Group, announced that it will launch wireless local area network service on 15 May at $12.46 a month. The carrier is planning to open 1,000 "hot spots," where users can enjoy the high-speed...
TOKYO—NTT Communications, a long-distance and international business unit of the NTT Group, announced that it will launch wireless local area network (WLAN) service on 15 May at 1,600 yen (US$12.46) a month. The carrier is planning to open 1,000 "hot spots," where users can...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—After announcing its wireless initiative last week, BT Group said it is aware of the security concerns surrounding wireless local area network (WLAN) services. The company admitted it intends to address the issue by providing virtual private network (VPN) tunnels to corporate...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Cisco Systems Inc. said it has launched the Cisco Aironet 1200 Series Access Point and 5 GHz 802.11a radios, a wireless local area network infrastructure that provides seamless migration to the Internet."With a unique design that supports the simultaneous operation of dual...
TOKYO—A governmental advisory body for the telecommunications ministry on 16 January decided to revise the telecom regulation to let operators use the OFDM system for their wireless local area network (WLAN) services.Using the OFDM system, operators will be able to provide high-speed data transmission...
