SMC today announced the first of its TigerStore SMB NAS Storage Servers. The SMCNAS04 is a BYOD NAS with four SATA drive slots to accommodate up to 3TB of storage. The same chassis is also available as the SMCNAS24 with four 250GB drives.

Both products support RAID 0, 1, 4, and 5, with "future options" for JBOD and BIG. Features include drive hot-swappability, integrated four port gigabit switch and three USB 2.0 ports for drive expansion, printer connection or connection to USB-enabled UPSes.

Atheros today announced what it claims is the most "highly-integrated, cost-effective 802.11g solution" for home gateways. The AR2417 is the newest member of the company’s seventh-generation AR5007 family and is a low cost, single-chip solution for mini-PCI and cardbus based designs. The device is currently in volume production.

Apologies to those of you who have been trying to find the new Router and NAS charts. The new charts have different URLs and I thought I had forwarding working for all of the old versions of the URLs. But apparently I didn’t.

So this morning I spent some quality time with mod_rewrite and things should be working fine now. If you for some reason hit a chart link and don’t get the chart, send me the bad URL and I’ll get it fixed.

HP yesterday announced a new version of its Media Vault NAS with enhancements for small business owners. The HP StorageWorks Media Vault Pro is HP’s first sub-$1000 small business StorageWorks product and has been upgraded to 1 TB of capacity. The product also comes equipped with 2GB of free offsite online storage from Spare Backup … Read more

Lantronix today announced the SecureLinx Spider—a "cable-friendly", single port, KVM to IP converter small enough to be held in one hand.

The SecureLinx Spider is a “Distributed KVM” solution that allows administrators to easily add incremental ports as their needs require. It is a completely self-contained solution including an ARM-based processor, on-board memory (Flash, Video and CPU SDRAM), secure operating system, web server, video encoder, and embedded Ethernet switch with built-in support for Virtual Media.

SMC Networks today announced the addition of a HomePlug AV powerline / Ethernet adapter. The SMC EZ Connect 200Mbps Powerline AV Hybrid Ethernet Adapter (SMCHPAVH-ETH) is compatible with HomePlug AV/1.0 and 1.1, as well as with existing SMC HomePlug Turbo and 14Mbps devices. Up to 16 Powerline devices can be used in the same network. … Read more

AirMagnet today announced the version 3.1 of Spectrum Analyzer, which includes support for Microsoft Vista. Spectrum Analyzer can be used as a standalone instrument or with AirMagnet’s Laptop Analyzer and Survey products. Spectrum Analyzer can provide a data feed into these products to facilitate a complete RF view for use in network planning or as … Read more