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Wellspring and Ember Team to Create Industry's First ZigBee-Based Water Submeter for Monitoring Apartment Residence Water Usage

The first article in this series discussed types of wireless Access Points (APs) and how AP design affects network function and cost. This article examines vendor design approaches to authentication, VLANs, and network installation issues. These issues impact how your users connect to the network, their access to network resources and the overall cost of adding WLANs to your network. Authentication WLAN users must enter authentication credentials, usually a username and password to gain access to the WLAN. Authentication facilities are usually designed so that Continue reading →

By Jeff Miller

By Jeff Miller

Boston-based OutStart, a provider of content-centric learning software, has acquired Participate Systems of Chicago, a provider of online customer and sales support products. No financial details of the purchase were released. According to OutStart, the acquisition allows the company to develop new products that blend both structured training and knowledge-sharing approaches. The resulting offering will be released in the first half of 2005 and will allow companies to more effectively train, educate and inform their. “In the real word, companies need to capture and transfer Continue reading →

By Beth Healy

Colubris To Solidify Leading Voice over WLAN Position In Japan

Telecom Providers Prescribe Solutions for Health Care

Atheros Communications introduced what it is billing as the world’s first single-chip IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN chipset. The AR5006X chip integrates a media access controller, base-band processor and radio capable of operating at both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz in a low-cost CMOS design, the company said. It also supports the IEEE 802.11i security standard and has an AES encryption engine built into its hardware. www.atheros.com P2T optimization tools Optimi unveiled a suite of products designed to help carriers improve and better manage their push-to-talk Continue reading →

Developed For Connexion By Boeing; Passed Rigorous Aviation Product Testing