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Amid mixed wireless LAN market results, Wi-Fi 6 boosts sales

Soft Wireless LAN market results caused analysts to ask: is this the calm before the storm? The wireless LAN market showed mixed results in the second quarter of 2019, according to a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group. In a press release, the Dell’Oro Group...

Cisco unveils wireless LAN controller, hooks Bass Pro Shops

Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) launched a wireless LAN controller this week that allows a management system to operate as many as 500 branch office locations, 2,000 access points and 20,000 Wi-Fi clients from a single data center.The company plans to demo the controller device...

Russia: NSN offers a foreign infrastructure view of the Russian market

Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News Editor Sylvie Barak delved deep into the Russian wireless landscape during a recent trip to the country. She delivered a feature report for RCR Wireless News that was included in our November Special Edition. Click here ...

Ruckus targets mobile operators with Wi-Fi solutions

Wi-Fi technology, which used to be the red-headed step child of wireless operators, is getting renewed interest from those operators as carriers look to offload traffic from their 3G networks onto Wi-Fi systems, a move welcome by Ruckus Wireless, a six-year-old private company that...

Spotlight on: Boingo Wireless

It seems like a no-brainer today, but there was a time not too long ago when Wi-Fi was not a ubiquitous feature found in most homes, businesses or public venues. Along with that scarcity was frustration and complications for those looking to actually connect...

With new guidelines, products, Wi-Fi vendors hope to guard against credit card theft: Moto, Aruba shill new WLAN products to securely conduct wireless transactions

With new restrictions in place for businesses that use wireless local area networks to process credit card transactions, two rivals are now offering solutions that meet the security guidelines issued by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council. Aruba Networks Inc. and Motorola Inc....

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Alcatel-Lucent and more

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Ireland: Meteor Mobile Communications has chosen Ericsson to supply a...

Wi-Fi and 3G cellular: Learning to live together

The momentum of 3G data access has picked up speed as customers - particularly business users - experience the value of access to mobile broadband connectivity on their laptops, regardless of location. With this growing market, does Wi-Fi still have a role with the...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Nokia Siemens, Ericsson, Alvarion and more

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Bosnia and Herzegovina: M:Tel, the mobile arm of Telekom Srpske,...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: 3P Networks, Action Engine, Aerohive and more

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--3P Networks: 3P Networks Inc. and Quote Platform Syndicate Inc. signed an underwriting agreement that calls for 3P to...

BelAir employs SLAs to stave off speed concerns

With multiple technologies promising all the bells and whistles required of next-generation networks, infrastructure developers and operators are clamoring for their place as they determine which wireless technology to put their capital heft behind. Not only must these companies choose when to pull the...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Alcatel-Lucent, GigaBeam, Meru and more

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. CellularChina: Alcatel-Lucent and Datang Mobile won contracts with China...

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FlipswapFlipswap, an outsourced cell phone trade-in solution for retailers, said it has signed integration partnerships with retail management system providers iQmetrix, Work Wireless, TeleTracker and CellSell.Flipswap's Web-based software allows retailers to formulate a guaranteed trade-in quote for old phones. The value can then be...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia and more

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. CellularBangladesh: Motorola Inc. said it won a four-year, full-operations...

Report: Freescale subject of bidding war

WASHINGTON--Freescale Semiconductor Inc. confirmed last week it is talking with parties relating to a possible transaction characterized by a New York Times story as a bidding war between two private equity firms to acquire the chipmaker for $16 billion. The Times, citing sources involved...

Alcatel chooses Netrake security gateway for UMA product

PLANO, Texas-Alcatel Corp. picked Netrake's nCite Security Gateway technology to support the launch of its Unlicensed Mobile Access-based wireless LAN solution. Netrake said its gateway gives UMA providers secure access to GSM and GPRS mobile services over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi unlicensed spectrum technologies. "Netrake...

STMicroelectronics joins EWC

GENEVA-STMicroelectronics announced it has joined the Enhanced Wireless Consortium, which is developing a Wi-Fi standard proposal for the IEEE 802.11n Task Group. ST says it plans to share its expertise in low power system-on-chip technologies with the EWC to ensure that high throughput features...

STMicroelectronics joins EWC

GENEVA-STMicroelectronics announced it has joined the Enhanced Wireless Consortium, which is developing a Wi-Fi standard proposal for the IEEE 802.11n Task Group. ST says it plans to share its expertise in low power system-on-chip technologies with the EWC to ensure that high throughput features...

Enterprise WLAN up, SOHO down

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-The enterprise wireless LAN market showed strong results in the third quarter, increasing 9 percent sequentially to $249 million. According to Dell'Oro Group, growth was due greatly to WLAN switch, server and appliance sales, which rose 22 percent in the third quarter....

Alcatel to supply Kansas with WLAN solution

PARIS-Alcatel Corp. said it won a contract with the state of Kansas to supply wireless local area network solutions for use in the state's government and educational facilities. The state plans to deploy Alcatel's WLAN access points in locations in Topeka and elsewhere.Alcatel said...

Wi-Fi enters English lexicon

AUSTIN, Texas-It's official, Wi-Fi is here to stay. The word Wi-Fi has been added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition for 2005."You know you've truly made it when you're in Webster's dictionary," said Frank Hanzlik, managing director of the Wi-Fi Alliance. "Wi-Fi is not...

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MobiTVAndy Missan has joined MobiTV as vice president and general counsel. Missan will oversee legal affairs and general corporate matters at the company. Missan brings more than 17 years of legal experience to MobiTV, most recently as vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary...

Smart phones poised to shine in fixed-mobile environments

BOONTON, N.J.-A new study from Insight Research predicts a new generation of smart-phone technology is poised to compete with fixed-line phones.This new generation of phones will make use of Wi-Fi hot spots, Voice over Internet Protocol technology and voice over wireless local area networks...

WLAN switch revenue rises, says Infonetics

LONDON-Worldwide sales of wireless local area network switch ports jumped 52 percent to 170,000 in the first half, according to Infonetics Research's quarterly report, "Wireless LAN Equipment." The report said WLAN switch ports revenue grew 55 percent to $80.8 million between the first and...