Friday, April 27, 2012
Netgear to ship gigabit-speed wireless in May The R6300 home router will be capable of 1.3Gbps using the emerging 802.11ac standard, the next generation of Wi-Fi
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Opinion: Mobile predictions for 2012 There's consensus that malware on smart phones will proliferate and location-based marketing will multiply. But will and Windows Phone make a resurgence?
Monday, May 09, 2011
IEEE seeks data on Ethernet bandwidth needs Working group has posted a public request for comment on traffic growth trends, bandwidth use in individual data centres to determine where the Ethernet standard needs to go 
Friday, April 01, 2011
IEEE approves next WiMax standard The 802.16m technology is much faster than current WiMax, but will compete against speedy LTE. The standard is designed to provide speeds of about 100M bps to end users
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Industry split on data centre network standards Its TRILL vs SPB vs FabricPath, a battle that doesn't help network managers. We sort out which manufacturers are behind each protocol
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The push is on to cut 100G Ethernet's price With the price of a port well over $100,000, an IEEE group wants to make it easier to build modules with more 100 GE ports on a card
Monday, December 20, 2010
ITU softens on the definition of 4G mobile The early version of LTE being deployed by wireless carriers now may be able to carry the treasured 4G designation if a telecom body has its way
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
What you need to know about 802.1x The IEEE security standard can be used over wired or wireless networks and uses Extensible Authentication Protocol. Find out about the other relevant acronyms, like RAS and EAPOL
Monday, August 09, 2010
Are new IETF switching, routing specs needed? Changes would address spanning tree limitations and load balancing issues for organizations working with multiple ISPs. But Cisco and Juniper say they either do that now or are about to 
Monday, June 28, 2010
40/100G Ethernet standard ratified Financial services companies, where a few miliseconds of latency can mean a competitive advantage, and those who need high-bandwidth video or imaging will be early adopters
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wireless 802.11n standard set for final approval Users have been installing Wi-Fi access points that met the standards of the draft of the specification for a few years. Find out about the new optional features
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
September approval of IEEE 802.11n seen After seven years of wrangling and refinement, the final vote on the hotly debated wireless standard looks likely to come Sept. 11
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Trade commission settles Ethernet patent claims with N-Data N-Data violated federal law by engaging in unfair methods of competition, the FTC says, though its chair voted against the settlement
Monday, June 04, 2007
Cisco says wait for 802.11n equipment Cisco has added location sensing to its wireless LAN and allowed it to scale up, but it has stopped short of launching faster 802.11n Wi-Fi access points, with a set of announcements at the Interop event in Las Vegas. 
Monday, September 19, 2005
Startup Ruckus to help deliver video over WLANs A Silicon Valley startup aims to solve the problems of sending video over Wi-Fi, looking to IPTV (Internet Protocol television) service providers as a highly motivated distribution channel.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
IEEE starts hammering out mesh net standard Proposals for standardizing wireless mesh networks, which can link many wireless LANs to cover a city or campus, were presented last month to a working group of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE). 
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
New Japanese operator plans WiMax network The WiMax network will consist of about 200,000 access points each with a range of up to 3 kilometres. They will offer connection speeds of around 75Mbps and cover 80 per cent of Japan's population by the end of 2007, according to Kaori Ogawa, a spokeswoman for Heisei Denden Co. Ltd., a Tokyo-based communications carrier. 
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Bluetooth looks to UWB for bandwidth The body that oversees the Bluetooth personal-area wireless specification wants to take advantage of emerging UWB (ultrawideband) technology to create fast networks that are backward-compatible with current Bluetooth products. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) was set to announce on Wednesday its intention to work with the WiMedia Alliance and the UWB Forum, which are promoting two different UWB technologies. 
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
IEEE set to ratify 802.11i standard Members of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards board will meet on Thursday to vote on the final specification for 802.11i, an update to the current standard for Wi-Fi security, the chair of the IEEE 802.11 working group said Wednesday. 
Thursday, June 10, 2004
The dawn of a wireless century In this first decade of the 21st century, the communications industry is at an interesting transition point. 
Thursday, March 04, 2004
Time to play the standards game It is becoming increasingly clear that future work in IT will be shaped by standards. But standards can mean many different things. 
Tuesday, August 05, 2003
Researchers see trouble ahead for WLAN performance French researchers say they have pinpointed a problem in wireless LAN technology that could severely impair the performance of newer high-speed networks.
Thursday, July 31, 2003
Researchers see trouble ahead for WLAN performance French researchers say they have pinpointed a problem in wireless LAN (WLAN) technology that could severely impair the performance of newer high-speed networks.
Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Atheros dual-band WLAN chipsets in top-tier notebooks If there is a buzz around the PC industry this year, it's about wireless LANs (WLANs) and the notebooks that access them. Four of the world's top five PC vendors, as compiled by Dataquest Inc., are using a dual-band chipset from Atheros Communications Inc. to enable those wireless connections in their notebooks, Atheros announced Wednesday.
Thursday, September 19, 2002
Vendors make a wireless end run Major wireless LAN hardware manufacturers have joined forces to beef up security for 802.11b wireless LAN products through a project dubbed Safe Secure Networks