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Newbury Networks unveils infrastructure-agnostic WLAN location appliance

Newbury Networks today introduced what it says is the industry’s first "infrastructure-agnostic" wireless location appliance. The Newbury Location Appliance provides accurate and precise location tracking for thousands of devices over a wireless LAN and enables a host of mobile enterprise applications such as asset tracking, network provisioning, voice and security.

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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.)

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China Continues to Push WAPI

The WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) "standard" won't die:WAPI is a homegrown, proprietary encryption and authentication solution developed in part by the Chinese computer industry and in part by military- and government-controlled entities. WAPI has been slapped around by the ISO, in part because China's industry won't publish the spec. Problematic. A few years ago, WAPI was going to be required for all equipment sold in China, but high-level Bush administration negotiation apparently squashed that plan.

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