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For anyone with a laptop computer, what happens in Vegas neednt stay in Vegas. Visitors waiting for flights out of town can share their exploits over a public wireless LAN in the airport—for free. Las Vegas McCarran International Airport next week will officially begin offering complimentary Wi-Fi access to the public. Parts of the network […]

In preparing to sell its Personal Computer Division to Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM is assuring customers that they will not get burned in the same manner that users did in the wake of Hewlett-Packard Co.s acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. three years ago, with nixed product lines and mixed messages. “We were an HP shop […]

The governor of Pennsylvania last week signed into law a controversial bill that includes, among myriad items, a provision giving incumbent carriers the ability to prevent cities from creating and charging for municipal Wi-Fi networks. Verizon, which offers DSL services in Philadelphia, pushed for passage of the bill. “Gov. [Edward] Rendells signature of House Bill […]

While much of the WLAN industry is focused on centralizing management within their switches, several companies are still working to make access points more intelligent. Chip maker Engim Inc. and wireless LAN security toolmaker AirMagnet Inc. have teamed up to integrate intrusion detection capabilities into Engims white-box AP-310 reference design. The AP-310 includes the EN-3001 […]

With wireless LANs firmly established in the headquarters of many large enterprises, WLAN management specialists are now addressing the needs of their customers branch offices with new tools that allow for remote administration. Bluesocket Inc. will announce this week a gateway and associated management software that let users control WLANs in multiple locations, according to […]

Wi-LAN is scheduled to release the latest version of its fixed wireless base station, which comes with a guaranteed upgrade to the WiMax standard when WiMax-certified equipment becomes available next year. Libra MX is designed for carriers and large enterprises that want fixed wireless for applications ranging from T-1 replacements to urban wireless hot spots. […]

Several wireless LAN vendors are preparing new management software to help ease the process of securing a wireless network. Interlink Networks Inc., Airespace Inc. and Aruba Wireless Networks have each developed advancements to their respective WLAN products that ease network management and security configuration—an issue that for many users has become the primary obstacle to […]

As wireless mesh networking gains increasing acceptance with municipalities and cost-conscious enterprises alike, companies such as Motorola Inc. and Nortel Networks Ltd. are readying more-advanced wares to support the technology. Motorola last week, in a bid to better integrate Wi-Fi into broadband wireless offerings, announced the acquisition of software maker MeshNetworks Inc., whose customer base […]

Broadcom Corp. will introduce two new 802.11g radio chip sets designed to extend access point range. The BCM4318E and BCM5352E incorporate the companys proprietary BroadRange method of rerouting signal paths to maximize performance. The new transceivers can extend connections by 50 percent over current devices, provided both the client and the router are equipped with […]

Trapeze Networks Inc. this week will announce upgrades to its wireless LAN switch software that make it easier to deliver and manage public and private WLAN services over the same infrastructure. The Pleasanton, Calif., companys Mobility System Software now includes Virtual Service Sets, new Web-based authentication tools and a guest provisioning application, officials said. Virtual […]