Category: Deployment

The in-depth research into the wireless capabilities of 403 large businesses sought to discover which wireless devices were being used, the future wireless investment plans of businesses, and what usage policies firms employed to manage wireless investments. Via [computerweekly.com]

Google wrote grandly of the importance of Wi-Fi in its recent proposal for free wireless here, but the search company downplayed its own potential role in delivering Internet service. Via [pcworld.com]

With 802.11 wireless LANs (WLANs), an AP (AP) is set to a specific radio frequency (RF) channel. As part of the association process, each user's wireless network interface card scans all channels, detects the AP, and then tunes to the channel of the AP to complete a connection. In order to deploy an effective wireless...

The papers are signed: Cellnet Technology of Atlanta and Wireless Facilities, Inc. (WFI) of San Diego will partner to install a citywide Wi-Fi network in Madison, Wisconsin, extending to the county airport. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

A European research team has successfully launched and tested the world's first Wi-Fi balloon, raising hopes that high-tech dirigibles could be used to provide wireless communications in remote regions or disaster areas. Via [vnunet.com]

McDonald's plays host to free wireless access for Nintendo DS gamers in the US but the UK will have to wait. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]

Taiwanese government officials said on Monday they plan to make Taiwan the world's largest testing ground for WiMax, and inked a pact with Intel to work together on the wireless broadband technology. Via [pcworld.com]

Google Inc. is not the only company that thinks San Francisco's proposed wireless network can be free to the city and its residents. Via [sfgate.com]

This year will be the year that EarthLink, one of the country's largest ISPs, decided to cast its future success with wireless communications. Via [wirelessweek.com]

Five months ago, Mayor Greg Nickels flawlessly demonstrated a new city-run wireless Internet system in Columbia City as part of a program to see if free access could boost business in certain neighborhoods. Via [seattletimes.nwsource.com]

While hotel guests complain about being charged as much as $13 a day for Wi-Fi Internet access, Tantus Networks has come up with a way to make wireless Internet access free to everyone—through Wi-Fi advertising. Via [redherring.com]

For EarthLink, the Philadelphia contract isn't just about starting a new business line. It's also about deploying the latest technology. Cole Reinwand is EarthLink's director of next generation broadband, covering WiMAX, broadband over power lines (BPL), fiber to the home (FTTH), and other technologies. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

Google’s recent bid to offer free Wi-Fi at 300 kilobits per second across the city of San Francisco struck some as being far outside the company's area of expertise. So what's this company up to, anyway? Via [commsdesign.com]

In the high-tech city of Oulu, Finland, anyone with a wireless laptop or mobile device won't go hungry or stay lost. Via [boston.com]

American Airlines, the biggest carrier at Logan International Airport, is accusing Logan officials of ''strong-arming" to crush competitive alternatives to the airport's new high-speed Internet access service. Via [boston.com]