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Cisco, Nortel, Meru smarten up WLANs Vendors are adding bells and whistles to their wireless LAN products at Interop this week as the industry awaits a new generation of gear that may replace wired LANs entirely. 2006 Year in Reviews: Networking After most of the vendors declined our invitation to a WAN shootout last year, we settled for a series of standalone reviews of WAN accelerators this year. As usual, Riverbed’s Steelhead shined -- so did products from Silver Peak, Blue Coat, and Cisco Systems, though they still swam in Steelhead’s wake. Perhaps competition will be stiff enough for a comparative test in 2007. Stay tuned.  December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco opens R&D center in west of Ireland Cisco Systems Inc. will open a research center in Ireland to develop unified communications products. November 22, 8:21 a.m. PST Cisco banking on collaboration tools Triple plays are rare in baseball. But Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers plans to do one better Wednesday by promising to pull off a "quadruple play" in the networking business: incorporating data, voice, video, and mobile capabilities across its product lines. September 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Wi-Fi Alliance won't wait for IEEE “I-triple-what?” was the question being asked last week, after the Wi-Fi Alliance said it will start certifying next-generation wireless LAN products by the first half of 2007, regardless of whether the IEEE has signed off on new wireless specifications for them. September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Huawei to expand R&D in India Chinese networking equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. is expanding its R&D (research and development) in India with a new center in Bangalore for the development of optical network products and wireless LAN technologies. August 31, 8:08 a.m. PDT Hardware vendors are missing the opportunity of open source Enterprising hardware hackers managed another coup last week, having successfully installed a version of the open source DD-WRT firmware on the latest revision of the Linksys WRT54G wireless router. The WRT54G became something of a fan favorite a few years ago, when Linksys released the source code to the router's Linux-based firmware. Since then, a number of custom variations on the original have appeared that add features Linksys never intended, of which DD-WRT is arguably the best. July 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Chambers to become Cisco chairman John Chambers, who has run Cisco Systems Inc. as president and chief executive officer (CEO) since 1995, will become chairman in November while remaining CEO, the dominant networking vendor announced Thursday. June 8, 11:38 a.m. PDT Slow progress for 802.11n standards The IEEE 802.11n standard has been three years in the making, and from the looks of it, it has at least another year to go. That’s a shame because it offers a lot of benefits, including higher throughput than the current Wi-Fi standard -- about 120Mbps in the real world -- and 50 percent longer range. Plus, because it uses multiple antennas that can stitch together a fractured signal, it eliminates a lot of spots where there might be drop-offs indoors. June 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Product previews Sun Solaris 10 to integrate ZFS and PostgreSQL Sun announced a June release of the solaris 10 operating system that will incorporate ZFS 1.0, Sun’s new 128-bit file system, and the open source PostgreSQL database. ZFS automatically detects and corrects data corruption and eliminates the need for a volume manager. PostgreSQL will help leverage Solaris’ predictive self-healing, OS containers, and DTrace (dynamic tracing) technologies. Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT > Networking > Wireless LANs - WLAN |
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