Lucent Technologies has demonstrated the successful seamless handoff of a wireless data call from a “WiFi” or wireless local area network (WLAN) to a UMTS network, enabling mobile laptop users to browse the Internet while roaming between the two network types with no interruption in the session.
Via [cellular-news.com]
Continue reading ‘802.11 To 3G Call Handover Achieved’
Archive for September, 2002
Wireless LAN sales are rocketing, with shipments expected to grow 73 per cent this year. Even though prices are falling, revenue will grow 26 per cent this year, according to Gartner Dataquest.
Via [theregister.co.uk]
Continue reading ‘WLAN Sales Reach For The Stars’
Microsoft plans to release new wired and wireless networking products Thursday into the crowded and hypercompetitive consumer hardware market.
Via [news.com.com]
Continue reading ‘Microsoft Unveils Networking Hardware’
Government declines to create protective laws, saying security should be a shared and voluntary act by all involved.
Via [pcworld.com]
Continue reading ‘Feds Draft National Strategy To Secure Cyberspace’
A new wireless standard five times faster than Wi-Fi got an important approval Monday.
Via [news.com.com]
Continue reading ‘Faster Wi-Fi Standard Gets Nod’
Sneaky US company uses ‘honey-trap’ WLAN to study hacking techniques.
Via [software.silicon.com]
Continue reading ‘Catching Wireless Hackers In The Act’
Wi-Fi chips for wireless home networks will be moving in with a roommate: broadband modems.
Via [news.com.com]
Continue reading ‘Wi-Fi To Climb Aboard Modems’
In July hereUare Communications put itself up for sale and said at the time that if it couldn’t sell in two weeks, the company would “go away.”
Via [siliconvalley.internet.com]
Continue reading ‘WiFi Metro To Become HotSpotzz’
Being Wireless
Nicholas Negroponte explains why Wi-Fi “lily pads and frogs” will transform the future of telecom.
Via [wired.com]
Continue reading ‘Being Wireless’