Safeway's move echoes that of rival retailer, Tesco, which started selling Siemens PCs in October. Last month, Safeway launched in-store public Net access points, giving the uninitiated web user the chance to browse as they shop.
Siemens has had what amounts to a second generation of powerline products in the market since November, and other companies such as NetGear are preparing to enter the market by the summertime. Powerline is not truly a standalone platform," said...
Safeway's move echoes that of rival retailer Tesco, which started selling Siemens PCs in October. Last month, Safeway launched in-store public Net access points, giving the uninitiated web user the chance to browse as they shop.
The deal also continues a trend toward consolidation, which began late last year when Siemens bought another wireless LAN start-up, Chantry Networks. Airespace and other start-ups such as Aruba Wireless Networks and Trapeze Networks claim that by...
It adds extra functions to allow wireless nodes to discover each other, authenticate and establish connections, and to work out the most efficient route for a particular task. The company is also introducing the idea of Mesh Portals -- devices that...
A working group in the IETF called the Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points is reviewing the submission along with three others that have previously been submitted from Cisco, Siemens and Panasonic.