Daily Archives: November 8, 2005

Startups’ Mini-PCI Card Kit, Chip Set Fuel WiMax Race

As two startups fighting to be heard above the big WiMax guns of Intel and Fujitsu, Sequans Communications and Wavesat Inc. this week will separately announce a chip set and a mini-PCI card reference kit designed to accelerate WiMax development and deployment. The announcements come a week after the two vendors commenced WiMax certification testing.Continue Reading

Cisco To Bring Wireless Mesh To Gulf Coast Schools

With its announcement of a $40 million initiative to rebuild schools along the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast, Cisco Systems Inc. tipped its hand on mesh networking plans. Via [eweek.com]Continue Reading

US Equipment Makers Turn To WiMAX

WiMAX is being seen in the US as both a potential 3G-killer and as a competitor to DSL. Via [electronicsweekly.com]Continue Reading

Industry Wireless Squabble Gives Newcomers Edge

While so-called “industry leaders” quibble over what will be the one true standard for 802.11n and UWB implementations, there are four different companies pushing the edge in new ways to implement wireless. Three of the four aren’t really mainstream, but all of them hold their own seeds to blow beyond the de facto 802.11g/Bluetooth/WiMax ploddingContinue Reading