Category: Deployment

Wi-Fi equipment developer Sputnik is providing software and hardware to SoCalFreeNet, a group of 802.11 enthusiasts planning to blanket San Diego, Calif. with free wireless access. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

Amsterdam's Web surfers could soon be liberated from their home computers and Internet cafes, with plans by a start-up firm to make their city the first European capital where laptops can hook up anywhere to the Web. Via [reuters.com]

Businesses looking to deploy a wireless LAN will soon have an alternative to climbing a ladder and installing access points on the ceiling. Aruba Wireless Networks Inc., a Wi-Fi systems vendor, and Ortronics Inc., a provider of cabling systems, on Monday are unveiling Wi-Fi wall jacks. Via [informationweek.com]

We have six birds--three hens, two bantams, and one speckled rooster named Colorful. Mostly they stay in the coop, but every morning before dawn, Colorful escapes and patrols the neighborhood. I wanted to see how he was getting out (without crawling out of bed at 4 a.m.), so I decided to install a wireless Webcam...

Roaming agreements are finally delivering on the "Wi-Fi is everywhere" promise and none too soon, now that entire communities are lighting up as hot spots. Via [eweek.com]

Sprint Corp., the No. 4 U.S. mobile- phone company, said its customers will get access to 2,300 public wireless Internet connections run by SBC Communications Inc. Via [quote.bloomberg.com]

Broadband service provider Speakeasy has received an investment from Intel Communications Fund. The Intel investment will be used to fuel Speakeasy's WiMAX (802.16) network endeavors. Via [wirelessweek.com]

Accor North America has reached an agreement with T-Mobile USA Inc. to install wireless Internet access throughout all of its Red Roof Inns over the next year, officials said. Via [seattlepi.nwsource.com]

Technologies that extend the range of Wi-Fi wireless LANs are making that low-priced technology an option for broadband Internet access in U.S. rural areas with limited broadband options. Via [infoworld.com]

A plan by NYC to rent the tops of city lampposts could boost the usage of Wi-Fi phones where home phones are scarce. In an effort to entice cellular providers into under-served neighborhoods, Gotham officials are offering companies a discount on payments to the city if cell providers market cheap Wi-Fi phones in some areas....

By the end of this year, at least three UK train operators should be offering wireless Internet access on their rolling stock, letting mobile workers surf the Web and access corporate IT systems while on the train. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]

I first set out almost a year ago to write an article describing my experiences setting up and maintaining a complex home network. But every time I plopped down at the keyboard with a few hours reserved for the task, something network-related manifested itself and sidetracked me. Via [reed-electronics.com]

Paced by rapidly increasing adoption of wireless switches, overall sales of enterprise-class WLAN equipment grew 21 percent in the recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago, according to a market study released Wednesday (Aug. 18) by Dell'Oro Group. Via [commsdesign.com]

Visitors to the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, this week can log in to a local Wi-Fi hotspot and have the session billed to their cell phone bill back home. London-based Quiconnect says it has signed up three wireless carriers in Europe and Asia to facilitate the roaming. Eventually, the company says, it will sign...

Research claims WiMax technology has a bright future, but BT says operators won't be able to offer it without joining forces with each other. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]