What is the next wireless revolution? These are wi-fi zones which allow visitors to a building to connect to the internet, on a completely separate network to the corporate wireless LAN, or WLAN. The conditions are right, the technology is in place...
Under the deal, Colubris will provide wireless local area network (WLAN) access equipment to the carrier's Swisscom Eurospot subsidiary, the largest pan-European hotspot provider of wireless high-speed internet access in public areas.
Once you've found a Wi-Fi hotspot in an airport, your home or office, you have a generous supply of bandwidth, and usually you'll be on an all-you-can-eat tariff. So when you're at home or in a hotspot, it will use the cheap Wi-Fi network and when...
Ken Greene, director of iPass' technical consultancy, said: "The main factors [behind the rise in usage] are the proliferation of the technology.wireless cards are now integrated in most laptops and wi-fi hotspots are becoming much more ubiquitous...
But cheap, versatile and user-friendly as 802.11b Wi-Fi is, it has many imperfections - and it may take a complete revolution in wireless networking technology to fully resolve them. The standard known as 802.11b - or Wi-Fi - is disruptive...
It's starting out with airports, so when you find a good wi-fi hotspot at an airport you can let everyone know about it and we can help spread the thaw! For the folks in North America this will all seem so very quaint but believe me, this is quite...