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They are companies as different as their leaders. At Aruba Wireless Networks, the watchwords have been sales and channel. Under the direction of CEO Don LeBeau, a former Cisco Systems Inc. sales vice president with a penchant for catchphrases and seal-the-deal handshakes, Aruba has used its market savvy to capture large customers such as Amazon.com […]

Security partnerships and technology advances are making it increasingly safer to keep corporate data up in the air. To better fight the threat of wireless network subterfuge, Cisco Systems Inc. is bolstering its WLAN (wireless LAN) security offerings through partnerships with third-party security companies, while Symbol Technologies Inc. is beefing up its branch-office WLAN switch […]

Aiming to promote the adoption of the broadband wireless technology known as WiMax, Intel Corp. has teamed with Clearwire Corp.—a company best known for its founder and CEO, Craig McCaw. Clearwire plans to deploy WiMax networks using Intel silicon, company officials said late last month. Intel, for its part, is investing a significant amount of […]

When Gallaudet University wanted to deploy a campuswide wireless LAN in the fall of 2003, it turned—as did other enterprises at the time—to a relatively unknown technology company. Gallaudet, one of the nations most prestigious schools for the deaf, wanted to provide mobile data access to students, faculty and guests as they traveled among the […]

Security developers took more than a decade to move from intrusion detection to intrusion prevention in the world of wired networking. But in the fast-paced wireless space, vendors are already jumping on prevention as the first step in security. Companies such as AirDefense Inc. and Wibhu Technologies Inc. are set to release new tools that […]

Taking its cues from an advisory board of Fortune 500 CIOs, Verizon Wireless is working on several initiatives to make its enterprise wireless services more secure and easier to manage. For enterprise customers that want to keep data close to the vest, the Bedminster, N.J., carrier is testing a behind-the-firewall version of its Wireless Sync […]

As the WLAN (wireless LAN) switch space matures, the leaders of the new pack are developing products to augment switch-based WLANs with new products that focus largely on branch offices, security and quality of service for voice traffic. Airespace Inc. this week will introduce a switch designed for offices that require WLAN coverage of less […]

Thanks to an owner who is both fabulously wealthy and technologically savvy, the American Airlines Center in Dallas is gearing up to be a state-of-the-art Wi-Fi access venue. The center is home to the up-and-coming Dallas Mavericks basketball team, which is owned by billionaire maverick and reality TV star Mark Cuban. He bought the team […]

Sprint Corp. is readying a set of services designed to help IT administrators make wireless phones more secure and corporate calling plans more sensible. Sprint Managed Mobility Services will include increased support for both device management and account maintenance, said officials at the Overland Park, Kan., company. Sprint will announce the services at the CTIA […]

As wireless networks continue gaining acceptance in the enterprise, Extreme Networks Inc. and Foundry Networks Inc. are each pumping up their wireless LAN offerings with improved voice and security features. Pushing the convergence of wired and wireless networks, Extreme this week will unveil an edge switch and companion software that enable VOIP (voice over IP) […]