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Wireless networking vendor Colubris Networks Inc. claims it’s the first wireless LAN (WLAN) hardware vendor to unify wireless and wired networks in a single architecture. However, with the market moving toward convergence, once researcher said it could be the edge that the startup needs to stay afloat. The Waltham, Mass.-based firm’s architecture, coined Unified Services Network (USN), sets up a two-stage plan for delivering a vision of next-generation networking. The architecture encompasses wired and wireless services handled on the same infrastructure, with centralized management and Continue reading →

The results of the second-annual Webtorials “Wireless LAN State-of-the-Market Report” have just been published, revealing a mélange of enterprise trends, some expected, others not. The report, sponsored this year by Colubris Networks, analyzes responses from 419 subscribers to Webtorials, an educational Web site for the computer networking industry. Of those responding, over one-third were network managers learning to manage a business Wi-Fi environment (as opposed to classifying themselves as wireless experts or home users/hobbyists), and more than one-third worked for companies with 2,000 or more Continue reading →

Greg Jones has joined Newton, Mass.-based VC firm GrandBanks Capital as chief administrative officer. He previously was an attorney with Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault LLP, representing venture capital firms. www.grandbankscapital.com

Companies Partner to Integrate Colubris MultiService WLAN System and AirMagnet Enterprise Software for Superior Security and RF Management

Colubris Networks recently outlined a wireless LAN road map that includes new products to create one network infrastructure that can serve both wired and wireless users. The goal is to create an access layer Ethernet switch, loaded with Colubris’ wireless-LAN software, that will use recently announced switching silicon by vendors such as SiNett or Broadcom to process wired and wireless traffic. By contrast, many enterprise wireless LANs today use separate WLAN switches to process packets and handle roaming, authentication and management for wireless users. “The Continue reading →

Colubris Networks Inc. of Waltham this week unveiled its upcoming product and service strategy with the intention of being the first wireless local area network (WLAN) vendor to unify wireless and wired networks under the same architecture, dubbed the Unified Services Network. In announcing the new unified architecture, Colubris executives also provided a sneak peak of two new complementary products to be released some time this summer. The first, which the company claims will be an industry first, is its MultiService Controller. The controller, when Continue reading →

As expected, Wireless LAN startup Colubris Networks Inc. has today unveiled its centralized 802.11 strategy, but — unlike some other vendors — the firm is definitely not planning to put its access points on a diet (see Colubris Plots Bigger Box). The firm’s Unified Services Network (USN) architecture lays out a two-stage plan for delivering a distributed WLAN/LAN switching architecture with centralized management and control that supports multiple services — such as voice, video, and data — over a single wired and wireless network (see Continue reading →

Cicero Networks and Colubris Networks announce interoperability enabling VoWi-Fi roaming across multiple access points

Canova Wireless, a leading provider of managed high-speed, wireless and wired Internet services, in partnership with Colubris Networks, a pioneer of intelligent multiservice WLAN systems technology, today announced a £1 million ($1.8 million USD) agreement with Swallow Hotels and Swallow Inns to provide high speed wireless and wired Internet Access to over 75 locations.  The implementation will enable guests to access the Internet wirelessly in all public areas and conference rooms and through high speed fixed connections in over 3,000 rooms across the UK.  “We Continue reading →