The company, which makes cans for companies such as Gillette and WD40, has purchased a WAN and telephony solution comprising structured cabling, 3Com LAN Environment, Cisco routers, Leased Line connectivity and SDX INDeX telephone switches.
The two companies will devote a combined total of more than 200 silicon, hardware and software engineers to work on wireless LAN technologies. Adapter cards, chips and network access points will be developed, based on the IEEE 802.11 wireless...
3Com will this year dispose of its enterprise LAN and WAN corporate business due to lack of growth and the amount of cash needed to bring it in line with the rest of the company, according to Bruce Claflin, president and chief operating officer at...
Wireless local area network (LAN) technology is inferior to its wired up cousin. Wai Sing Lee, analyst for Frost & Sullivan who issued the report, said: "Wireless LAN technology will not be able to match or surpass the speeds of fixed cable...
These tariffs are relatively expensive compared to the US, where public wireless LAN services have been available for some time. US wireless LAN company Boingo charges $74.95 (£49.77) for an unlimited monthly access package.
In the first six months of this year spending on WLAN equipment hit $1.2bn in Western Europe, according to IDC research. Business demand for centralised WLAN architecture technology in particular continued to grow, with revenues jumping 48 per cent...