3Com has awarded Intersil a contract to supply its Prism wireless chipset technology for use in the networking giant's AirConnect 11Mbps wireless local area network (WLAN) product. In a separate deal, Zoom Telephonics will also use WLAN silicon...
In fact, Bossert believes that the biggest threat to BT's WLAN business could come from private individuals who allow the public to share their broadband internet connections through open wireless access points.
It also added additional antennas to the access points so signals could be beamed directly to a home, rather than creating a cloud of access. The signals themselves can get so misdirected they actually interfere with each other as they find their...
Randy Guisto, vice president, personal technologies and services at IDC, said in a statement: "In lean economic times, providing a wireless LAN is a low priority for many IT organisations, while lower price points on wireless access points has...
WLAN use is booming and London is the European capital for the number of access points. Matthew Buckley, communications manager at RSA, said in a statement: "We have seen the WLAN debate gather pace in the UK and this certainly seems to have...
The AirMagnet system was used to make sure that wireless access points are placed at the optimal position to ensure good coverage and to detect wireless channel conflicts, as well as highlight any security breaches.