Nortel Networks Ltd. announced its market strategy for WiMAX product development, saying it has formed alliances with Intel Corp. for mobile WiMAX and Airspan Networks Inc. for fixed WiMAX development. Nortel said these new alliances will complement WiMAX work already under way with LG...
Has another town fallen in love with Wi-Fi networking? So it seems, as Tropos Networks recently announced it has added Malden, a staunchly small-town city 5 miles north of Boston, to its list of more than 200 municipal clients. The City of Malden, population...
The future of wireless could be the future of most everything. Wireless technology has evolved in leaps and bounds since the first transmission of radio communication signals across the English Channel and then across the Atlantic Ocean a century ago. Wireless technology is being...
MAITLAND, Fla.-Two wireless mesh networks were announced yesterday.MeshNetworks Inc. and Cheetah Wireless Technologies Inc. said they have deployed a trial mesh wireless broadband network throughout downtown Las Vegas in conjunction with the Freeway and Arterial System of Transportation organization of Nevada. The city is...
Is the public-safety community at the forefront of the technology revolution or picking up the rear? It depends on your perspective, who you ask or what day it is.Public safety was one of the first industries to embrace wireless data. CDPD communication was essential...
With alliances and product rollouts, mesh technology is picking up enough momentum to graduate it from infancy status.Variously described as dynamic and ad hoc, the technology comes across as a technology to solve other technologies' problems, whether in the public-safety, homeland-security, law-enforcement, telematics, home-networking,...
TORONTO-Nortel Networks Ltd. has announced two agreements about mesh technology, emphasizing the increasing profile of the technology around the world.Nortel entered into agreements with PacketHop Inc. and National Taiwan University. Nortel and PacketHop have agreed to market a mesh solution targeting the $11 billion...
MeshNetworks offers .11b access point, routerNEW YORK-With Federal Communications Commission technical approval now in hand, MeshNetworks, Maitland, Fla., has made commercially available a new 802.11b access point and a router the company believes will bring to wireless communications the inherent strengths of the wireline...
Lucent TechnologiesLucent Technologies introduced Flexent Wireless IP Core Network Architecture, which it said will help wireless carriers deliver a range of voice and data services to customers. According to Lucent, the first phase of the architecture, the Lucent Softswitch Toll/Tandem Solution, lets carriers connect...
ATLANTA-Nokia Corp. introduced its RoofTop Wireless Routers and Bridges for the residential and small-business market, and CityHopper Broadband Wireless Access products for mid-size and large businesses.The Nokia RoofTop Wireless Routers create mesh networks that model the structure of the wired Internet, Nokia said. Signals...
