Contest #5 has ended. The winner of the Belkin Wireless USB is Newell Burkart with the correct answer of Mississippi. Congratulations, Newell!
The HomePNA Alliance announced today it now has more than 40 member companies collaborating to promote the adoption of the only multimedia home networking standard approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). HomePNA technology enables high-speed, triple-play Internet services over both phone wires and coaxial cables at speeds up to 320 megabits per second. The … Read more
D-Link today said it has Draft 2.0 product upgrades available for download for its Draft 802.11n Xtreme N product line.The firmware and driver upgrades have also achieved ‘Connect with Intel Centrino’ certification. The 2.0 draft of the 802.11n specification brings the industry closer to final ratification, providing the next set of technical requirements for enhancing … Read more
SonicWALL last week introduced three new additions to its line of UTM/Firewall/VPN appliances.
The TZ 180 delivers gateway UTM scanning at twice the speed of SonicWALL’s TZ 170. A new Security Dashboard provides a real-time snapshot of the number and type of security threats blocked by SonicWALL’s threat prevention technology worldwide, as well as the threats blocked by the user’s appliance. The TZ 180 Wireless adds wireless LAN capability with WPA2 support to the TZ 180’s base feature set.
Berkeley Varitronics Systems yesterday announced a new Yellowjacket handheld Wi-Fi & spectrum analyzer. The Yellowjacket B/A/G system demodulates, sweeps and analyzes all popular 802.11 Wi-Fi network packets including 802.11 a, b and g. The new handheld is also a spectrum analyzer that measures RF energy in the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands accurate to within … Read more
If you haven’t visited the NAS Charts lately, you might want to drop by and check out the new features: A “New” flag has been added to make it easier to find products added in the last 30 days We’ve started to add Power consumption data Added a small filesize mode for those who have … Read more
I finally got around to pulling the Blogs into the main site. They were running on a standalone install of WordPress. But that left them sort of hanging out alone. You now can comment on Blog posts, with or without site registration.
Jim Buzbee liked the wide format support and Internet content features, but also found some significant rough edges.
Some NASes make you choose between fun and work by the features they include. Synology’s DS207 Disk Station lets everyone be happy.
Buffalo Technology earlier this week announced its new Web Access
feature for its LinkStation Live NAS products, including a music streaming
feature.
Web Access provides secure browser-based access to any content stored on a
user’s LinkStation Live NAS by logging into www.buffaloNAS.com. The new feature is available for existing LinkStation Live customers via a free
firmware upgrade and port forwarding is not required for UPnP-enabled routers.
NETGEAR today announced that it has agreed to purchase privately-held
networked storage appliance maker Infrant Technologies.
Under the terms of the agreement, NETGEAR will pay $60 million in cash
for Infrant. Infrant shareholders may receive a total additional payout of up
to $20 million in cash over the three years following closure of the acquisition
if specific revenue targets are reached.
The acquisition is subject to various standard closing conditions and is expected
to close in the second quarter. Following completion of the transaction, Infrant’s
President and Chief Executive Officer Paul Tien will become NETGEAR’s Vice President
and General Manager for storage products.
What do you do when off-the-shelf NASes don’t meet your storage needs? Terry Kennedy created a 16 drive RAID5 NAS.