Accton and Alvarion join for WiMAX?
DigiTimes today reported that Taiwan-based network-equipment maker Accton Technology reportedly ...
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Aruba plans to unify Wi-Fi and cellular voice
Aruba Networks Monday revealed plans to bridge two wireless technologies by letting users on enterprise networks make VoIP calls over both Wi-Fi and cellular networks.
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I’m just saying no to draft 11n reviews
Manufacturers continue to pump out more draft 802.11n products based ...
Atheros gets into Windows CE
Atheros Communications today announced that its wireless LAN software has ...
New Windows exploit could disable firewall
Security researchers have discovered a new Windows flaw that could allow hackers to crash the built-in firewall. By sending malformed DNS packets to vulnerable machines, hackers could disable and eventually bypass the operating system firewall. So far only Windows XP computers with the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service turned on are affected by the attack.
Juniper aims new gear at branch office, Cisco
During the next 18 months, Juniper Networks plans to roll out branch-office devices that integrate MPLS routing, VoIP and WAN acceleration capabilities - a combination designed to streamline architecture and reduce administrative costs.
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Metasploit tool going wireless
Jon "Johnny Cache" Ellch and other computer security researchers are adding wireless exploit tools into the upcoming version 3.0 of the Metasploit penetration testing toolkit. The tools will allow hackers to inject raw packets into wireless streams and potentially crash or takeover systems.
EnGenius takes the practical road to WLAN performance improvement
In the second and last part of a short series, Tim Higgins finds less hype, lower price but still no miracles of WLAN performance improvement from EnGenius' EUB-362 EXT
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Carefree Music Streaming With The Logitech Wireless DJ Music System
Mike Baggaley found that Logitech's latest wireless music streaming system handles DRM-protected files as easily as your own ripped music.
Triple Wired Threat for Wi-Fi for In-Home Triple Play
The triple play is the convergence of data, voice, and television (IPTV) across a single pipe: Wi-Fi's in-home dominance of data and increasingly voice and IPTV (with proprietary extensions) will be challenged, ABI Research says, by the latest versions of three standards that work over coax, electrical wiring, and phone wiring. ABI Research says that by 2011, over 45 million gateways will offer wired-based distribution of data, voice, and video. (The quadruple play, by the way, adds mobile voice.)
Metro-Scale Wi-Fi Testing Firm Hangs Out Shingle
Uptown Services will offer independent performance evaluations of large-scale Wi-Fi networks: The company consults on municipal networks already, and is in discussions with one city for testing, IDG News Service reports.