Category: Standards

Two chipmakers, Agere Systems and Atheros Communications, Monday said they have tweaked the 802.11 standard to increase WLAN speed. Via [mobilepipeline.com]

According to a top Gartner analyst, when companies are developing their wireless security strategies, they need to consider far more than whether to deploy Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) or other out-of-the-box security fixes. Via [searchnetworking.techtarget.com]

With the boom in Wi-Fi growing by the day, Silicon Valley executives seized the chance on Monday to make sure that Uncle Sam will make the right policy moves for the wireless future. Via [news.com.com]

Some wireless equipment vendors believe 802.11a has failed and are already looking to a proposed 108Mbit/s standard to take its place. Via [vnunet.com]

The wireless industry has reached that stage where intellectual property issues threaten to overshadow real technology debates. Too many bright start-ups, many facing shake-out and failing to gain significant market presence through effective sales, are turning instead to their patent portfolios and the 'Qualcomm model' of deriving revenue from other companies' licensing fees. Via [theregister.co.uk]...

Linksys has hit back at the Computing Which? report suggesting that the company's Wireless-G router failed to communicate with Netgear's Wi-Fi bridge during testing at Which? offices. Linksys corporate communications manager, Karen Sohl, says the publication is wrong if it suggests that there's any standards failure by Linksys. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Shares of Calypso Wireless surged nearly 30 percent following news that the company is planning to enforce its newly awarded patent that covers roaming between cellular and wireless local area networks. The company has begun contacting wireless OEMs. Via [wirelessweek.com]

The Wi-Fi Alliance won't like this: a simple compatibility test of two mainstream wireless devices by Computing Which? failed to get a Netgear bridge to talk to a Linksys router. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Via Licensing is forming a group devoted to making licensing of 802.11-related patents easier and to increasing the use of wireless networking in a broader array of products. Via [zdnet.com.com]

Over the two years since Wi-Fi emerged, the hype behind it has swung from one end to the other. Via [seattletimes.nwsource.com]

As the wireless LAN switching market matures a bit, some WLAN management start-ups are realizing the benefits of partnering with traditional industry vendors. To that end, Roving Planet and Airespace Inc. this week both announced plans to support hardware other than its own. Via [eweek.com]

Calypso Wireless said Wednesday it has received a U.S. patent for technology that it says enables users to roam between cellular data systems and shorter-range wireless systems such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth without losing the connection. Via [mobilepipeline.com]

In a wide-ranging interview, an Intel executive lays out the company's vision for getting laptops online anywhere - not to mention extending battery life. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]

Intel Corp.'s R&D group will push for a hybrid approach to what is expected to be a broad and heated debate on next-generation Wi-Fi standards in the IEEE 802.11n group. The proposed 100 Mbit/second version of 802.11 should embrace smart antennas, wider channels and advances in error correction and power efficiency, said James Wilson, a...

The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced plans to upgrade the security capabilities in a new version of its industry-standard Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol due for release later this year. Via [internetnews.com]