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AMD and Harris Announce WLAN Solution
Supporting IEEE 802.11 Draft
April 21, 1997 AMD SUNNYVALE, CA
AMD and Harris today announced the industry's
first complete direct-sequence spread-spectrum
(DSSS) wireless local area network (WLAN)
solution built to support the proposed IEEE
802.11 standard. The complete
physical-layer-to-media-access-controller (MAC)
solution is composed of AMD's PCnetTM-Mobile
(Am79C930) single-chip WLAN MAC andHarris'
PRISMTM transceiver chipset, knitted together
seamlessly with IEEE 802.11-draft protocol
firmware and device driver software. The solution
is optimized for DSSS and features 1Mbps and
2Mbps data rates.
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Tune into your WLAN Wireless LANs are based
on that archaic technology—radio—so can
they really keep us up-to-date?
June 1998
Wireless LANs offer mobility in the workplace
and can greatly reduce the costs of cabling a
building for Ethernet or token-ring networks. But
LAN buyers and specifiers worry about the
unknowns of this radio-based technology. How does
it work? Why is it so expensive? Is it as fast as
a conventional LAN? Are products from one vendor
interoperable with products from another?
GCN Shopper By J.C. Miles
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Chip
Solutions Aim at Low Cost WLANS
Feb 2000 The
need for mobility and flexibility in office
environments fuels the growth of data
wireless-network applications at 2.4 GHz.
. By: Jack Browne (Microwaves & RF February
2000) |
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Pulling The Plug On The Future
Dec 2000 Wireless
fidelity, or WiFi, could make our computers as
mobile as phones and transform commerce. By: Faisal
Islam (Net News - Dec
2000) |
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802.11b Tips, Tricks, and Facts by Rob
Flickenger
What's the difference
between 802.11 and 802.11b? How fast can a
wireless network really go?
What's the best antenna
configuration?
Feb 3 2001 Rob
Flickenger (O'Reily
Network) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/03/02/802.11b_facts.html |
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Sick of
crap DSL? Start your own service!
Feb 7 2001 By: Linda Harrison in
New York Posted: 07/02/2001 at 17:51 GMT http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/16732.html |
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A
Wireless Long Shot
This series of articles
tracks our progress in trying to use the 802.11b
protocol to create a link from Sebastopol to a
hilltop tower 20.9 miles north, and from there on
to some homes 5 miles across a valley.
March 5 2001 By: Rob
Flickenger
(O'Reily Network 05/03/2001) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/05/03/longshot.htm |
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Why 802.11b could rule corporate America
I've come to believe that 802.11b and its
progeny will wind up as the Global Positioning
System of the next decade--a technology dreamed
up for a limited purpose that mushrooms into a
huge range of applications.
April 2 2001 By: Rich Santalesa, Chief
Analyst,PDA & Wireless World (ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2702591,00.html |
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Fixed
Wireless Provides Network Alternative
Technology offers fast and
cheap Internet access for branch office http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=472464
May 7 2001: MATT HAMBLEN Kansas
City, Mo ComputerWorld Kansas
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5-GHz Wireless LANs hit the ground
running
Wireless LAN offerings
based on the IEEE 802.11a 54-Mbit/second standard
hit the ground running this week at the
Networld+Interop show in Las Vegas....
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010510S0080
May 10 2001 By:
Patrick Mannion EE
Times (05/10/01,
4:55 p.m. EST) |
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The Wireless Web for Everyone Everywhere
In October 2001, one
special Power Mac G4 tucked inside a satellite
will make history when it is launched by SkyCorp
Incorporated from the International Space Station
(ISS). The first web server ever placed into
orbit. This computer’s first-of-its-kind
mission is to orbit the Earth as a web server,
using a modified Apple AirPort Base Station and
several antennae to communicate with text-enabled
laptop computers and other wireless devices.
June 2001 http://www.apple.com/scitech/stories/skycorp/ Apple.com |
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Wireless Freenets
There is a movement afoot in America and
elsewhere to build citywide networks of linked
802.11b access points—owned and operated by
individuals in loose-knit community groups. If
you think this sounds crazy, think again. There
are already groups doing it in 12 U.S. cities,
including three in Seattle and two in the Bay
Area. There are also six groups in five cities in
Australia, at least one in Canada, as well as
groups in France, Finland, Sweden and the UK,
where there are three.
http://www.isp-planet.com/fixed_wireless/business/2001/wifi_freenets.html
July 12, 2001 by Gerry
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Public Access Wireless LANs Threaten
Mobile Revenues
BWCS
recently released a study titled, "Wireless
LANs and the Threat to Mobile Revenues,"
which predicts that there will be nearly 17
million users of public-access wireless LANs, or
"hotspots," by 2006. The hotspots are
areas, such as airport lounges, hotel lobbies,
conference centers and cafés, where mobile users
can connect to high-speed wireless LANs. With the
rapidly growing availability of inexpensive,
standardized, high-speed W-LAN options available
today, third-generation wireless services might
be a hard sell tomorrow.
July 2001 http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/news/2001/207/news9.html
Report from BWCS [Report:
http://www.bwcs.com/link_rep4.html]
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The Sun Setting On Uncle Sam's IT Empire
There will need to be some redefinition of
what it is to own spectrum, perhaps looking at
something like the UK approach to public access
to land. Dr Farber predicts 3G will have the
shortest life of any mobile system in history. He
describes it as the last of the analog systems,
saying: ``When you look at the prices paid, you
wonder where they got their accounting from. The
802-11 technology now starting to pop up all over
the world would be the foundation for 4G,
becoming a ubiquitous wireless service.
9 July 2001 Helen Meredith
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NTL to launch wireless broadband trials
for London
Ntl is offering London-based computer
users the chance to take part in a free trial of
a wireless broadband network, but is insisting
that there's little chance of a commercial
service coming soon.
August 2001 Graeme Wearden
ZNet UK News http://news.zdnet.co.ukhttp://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2093396,00.html |
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Renegade WLANs: Parasitic or
Free-Spirited Anarchistic?
In the wake of Sept. 11th,
many high-tech firms that lost their wired
Internet connections are turning to a band of
wireless renegades who combine low-tech antennas,
leading-edge networking tools and a spirit of the
1960s.
3rd October 2001 By Ed
Sutherland - 802.11
Insights http://www.80211-planet.com/columns/article.php/896641 |
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Native American Community Deploys Large
WLAN
..... many Native American communities
have expressed interest in the WLAN solution as a
more environmental, less earth-invasive
alternative to wired LANs that avoids carving up
"Grandmother Earth." More information
about Solectek and the SkyWay family of products
is available at the company's Web site
.November 19, 2001
By Matthew Peretz http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/926051
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Gates Predicts a Wireless World
SEATTLE,
Washington -- Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on
Friday told about 400 of his biggest fans from
around the world that wireless networking would
become commonplace in the next 10 years.
Addressing a group of Usenet-based volunteers --
which Microsoft calls its "most valuable
professionals" -- Gates predicted the coming
of the "digital decade."
November
30 2001 by Manny
Frishberg 2:50 p.m. Nov.
30, 2001 PST Wired News. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48775,00.html |
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NTT researchers predict 10Gbps wireless
NTT Corp, Japan's incumbent telco, claims to have
raised the ceiling on wireless bandwidth, after
achieving a peak data transfer rate of 2.5Gbps in
laboratory trials.
January 24 2002 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/23809.html
By ComputerWire
Posted: 24/01/2002 at
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3GSM The Church of the False God
I've come to believe that 802.11b and its
progeny will wind up as the Global Positioning
System of the next decade--a technology dreamed
up for a limited purpose that mushrooms into a
huge range of applications.
February 2002 By: Dale
Vile, Service Director, Quocirca Ltd,
First published on mformobile.com, http://www.quocirca.com/report_mformobile_5.htm |
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Wireless London is wide open
A comprehensive seven-month audit found that 92%
of the 5,000 wireless networks in the capital had
not taken basic steps to protect themselves
against casual attacks. The survey, sponsored by
the International Chamber of Commerce, used some
novel software tools that could detect the
networks other systems missed.
Tuesday, 26 March, 2002,
09:20 GMT http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1892510.stm |
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BT steals a march with wireless Lan
BT Group will today unveil plans to roll
out a series of wireless local area networks
across the country providing business users, and
eventually residential customers, with high speed
links to the internet and the computer networks
of companies. The telecoms operator is in
advanced discussions with numerous companies to
provide wireless Lan at more than 4,000 "hot
spot" locations, including airports, train
stations, hotels and cafes, by June 2005.
Apr 10, 2002 By ROBERT BUDDEN Financial Times;
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Rethinking the WiFi Hotspot Business
Model
RoomLinX sells turnkey WLAN systems to
hotels - "as amenities," is how Lunde
puts it. RoomLinX hotels typically don't charge
room guests for high-speed Internet access. They
do, however, charge corporate customers for
access in meeting and convention rooms.
April 11,
2002 BY GERRY BLACKWELL (profile) |Australia Internet
Com http://australia.internet.com/r/article/jsp/sid/11800?clicked=hottopics |
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Boeing gets FAA approval for broadband
Internet service
Dubbed Connexion by Boeing, the system
will give passengers access to real-time,
high-speed Internet and intranet access,
television, entertainment and e-mail. Boeing said
the service can accommodate every passenger on
the plane at once.
May 10, 2002 3:10 pm ET by
Jim Dalrymple, jdalrymple@maccentral.com http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0205/10.boeing.php |
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802.11 Takes Center Stage
a technology standard gets grassroots
support and a movement starts, shedding light on
a once-vague notion. As popularity grows, venture
capitalists rush in; big business takes notice;
and evangelists predict this will change how we
work and live.
June 7, 2002 By
Brian
Morrissey Internetnews.com http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/1355221 |
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Surfing Free as a Cloud
It is a new kind of network: fast,
wireless internet access broadcast from rooftops
and church steeples, available to all for free .
June 20, 2002 Thursday Sean
Dodson Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4436681,00.html |
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Cable companies cracking down on Wi-Fi
Broadband providers are cracking down on popular
Wi-Fi networks, threatening to cut service to
customers who set up the inexpensive wireless
systems and allow others to freely tap into their
Internet access.
July 9, 2002, 4:00 AM PT
By Ben
Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com http://news.com.com/2100-1033-942323.html?tag=fd_lede |
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Microsoft Is Bullish On Wi-Fi
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
said Thursday that it would soon begin making
home networking products, marking a significant
bet by the software giant that wireless local
area networks (LANs) are poised for a mainstream
takeoff.
By Brian
Morrissey
July 11, 2002 802-11 Planet Wireless
Enterprise Forum http://www.80211-planet.com/news/article/0,4000,1481_1402191,00.html |
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Heavyweights Pump Up Wi-Fi
While it began as the playground of scruffy
technology buffs, stringing together free
community networks in tech havens like Seattle
and San Francisco, the booming 802.11 industry
garnered the attention of the biggest names in
tech and wireless this week
July 19, 2002 By Brian Morrissey http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/1429571 |
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Warchalking is an international
phenomenon
In late June web designer Matt Jones came up with
the idea of using chalk marks on pavements and
walls to reveal the existence of wireless
networks anyone could use to surf the net.
23 July, 2002, 00:37 GMT
01:37 UK By Mark Ward
BBC News Online technology correspondent Tuesday,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2144279.stm |
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UK gov rules stall rural broadband
scheme
An innovative scheme to bring broadband access to
the countryside using wireless Lans has stalled
amid confusion about regulatory requirements.
19 August 2002 By John
Leyden The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/26738.html |
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Cable Operators Seek To Corral
Bandwidth Hogs
MSOs Try Out
Speed and Service Tiers, Explore Bandwidth
Consumption Charges
October 01, 2002
By Alan Breznick, Editor, Cable
Datacom News
http://www.cabledatacomnews.com/oct02/oct02-2.html |
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Intel to invest $150 million in Wi-Fi
companies
INTEL WILL INVEST $150 million in
companies developing 802.11b and other wireless
networking products, the chip maker announced
Tuesday.
The money, coming from the $500 million Intel
Communications Fund established three years ago,
should help accelerate the deployment of wireless
networks and proliferate the 802.11b standard
worldwide, Intel of Santa Clara, Calif., said in
a statement.
By Joris Evers
October 22, 2002 8:06 am PT
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/in/xml/02/10/22/021022inintelwifi.xml |
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BEING
WIRELESS
EVERYTHING
you assumed about telecommunications is about to
change. Large wired and wireless telephone
companies will be replaced by micro-operators,
millions of which can be woven into a global
fabric of broadband connectivity.
October, 2002 by
Nicholas
Negroponte (nicholas@media.mit.edu)Wired
Magazine
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/wireless.html |
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Open Spectrum - The New Wireless
Paradigm
Open spectrum is neither science
fiction nor wishful thinking about human nature.
Its ideas are rooted in well-established
engineering techniques and mainstream economics,
and its viability has been proven in mass-market
implementations involving millions of users. It
is time to question our long-held assumptions,
and explore new policy approaches that could
generate tremendous benefits for the American
people.
New America Foundation October
2002 By Kevin Werbach,
http://werbach.com/docs/new_wireless_paradigm.htm |
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The Death Of The Internet
How Industry Intends To Kill The 'Net
As We Know It
October 24, 2002 by Jeff
Chester (executive director of the Center for
Digital Democracy) TomPaine.com (Tom
Paine Common Sense - a public interest
journal).
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Kofi
Annan's IT challenge to Silicon Valley
Too often, state monopolies charge
exorbitant prices for the use of bandwidth.
Governments need to do much more to create
effective institutions and supportive regulatory
frameworks that will attract foreign investment;
more generally, they must also review their
policies and arrangements to make sure they are
not denying their people the opportunities
offered by the digital revolution. We need to
think of ways to bring wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi)
applications to the developing world, so as to
make use of unlicensed radio spectrum to deliver
cheap and fast Internet access. We also need to
explore the possibility of creating an open
international university. Surely, experts can
think of many more ideas along these lines.
November 5, 2002 By Kofi
Annan General Secretary United
Nations
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UN pushes Wi-Fi to bridge digital divide
....technologies such as Wi-Fi and the 802.16
standard for wireless metropolitan-area networks
(Man) provided the chance to "leapfrog
ahead of the digital divide". Daniel
Aghion, executive director of the Wireless
Internet Institute, said the conference was
developed from a challenge set last November
by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to "think
of ways to bring wireless fidelity applications
to the developing world" via unlicensed
spectrum to deliver cheap and fast internet
access.
JUNE 26, 2003 By BOB
BREWIN writes for ComputerWorld
http://www.computerweekly.com/Article122996.htm |
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Will Wi-Fi Revolutionize the Phone?
As Wi-Fi grows to envelop cities, 'Voice Over Hot
Spots' could replace cell services—and their
profits.
FORTUNE
Wednesday, July 16, 2003 By
David Kirkpatrick
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,465157,00.html |
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Brazil champions free Internet access
The Brazilian city of Sao Paulo is offering its
poorest citizens a chance to get connected for
nothing, the BBC the
reports.
The left wing local authority has opened almost
100 "telecenters" - free Internet cafes
- where any of the city's 20 per cent unemployed
can enjoy up to one hour's free surfing a
day."We want to take the telecenters to the
poorer areas in the periphery, to reduce the
social and economic divide," explains
Beatriz Tibirica, co-ordinator of the so-called
"E-Government" project.
The initiative is now powered by GNU/Linux which
allows the cafes to use a single-server/thin
client set-up. This saves cash both on hardware
and software licence fees. The switch to Linux is
part of a national government drive to cut
software costs.
Interestingly, the Internet cafes survive
unmolested in some of Sao Paulo's roughest
neighbourhoods, such as Cidade Tiradentes, where
public buildings are commonly burgled and
trashed. It remains to be seen what concrete
benefits - in terms of education and jobs - they
can bring to Brazil's disenfranchised masses.
The Register Published Friday 5th December
2003 09:35 GMT
By Lester Haines
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The Wireless Revolution: The Coming Age
of Unlicensed Wireless
The radio revolution is the single greatest
communications policy issue of the coming decade,
and perhaps the coming century. The economics of
entire industries could be transformed. Every
significant public policy challenge could be
implicated: competition; innovation; investment;
diversity of programming; job creation; equality
of access; coverage for rural and underserved
areas; and promotion of education, health care,
local communities, public safety, and national
security.
New America Foundation December
15, 2003 By Kevin Werbach, Founder, Supernova Group
http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=article&DocID=1427 |
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Spectrum Wants to Be
Free Never pay for phone,
cable, or net access again
A
revolution is brewing in wireless. In an industry
speech in October, FCC chair Michael Powell
expressed support for a radical idea called open
spectrum that could transform the communications
landscape as profoundly as the Internet ever did.
If it works, you'll never pay for telephone,
cable, or Net access again.
Open
spectrum treats the airwaves as a commons, shared
by all. It's the brainchild of engineers,
activists, and scholars. The idea is that smart
devices cooperating with one another function
more effectively than huge proprietary
communications networks. The commons can be
created through distinct, unlicensed
"parks" or through "underlay"
technologies, such as ultrawideband, that are
invisible to licensed users in the same band.
WIRED MAGAZINE January
2003 By Kevin Werbach
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/view.html?pg=1 |
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Skype: giving wireless PDAs a new voice
The free to use PocketSkype is designed for users
of wireless LAN (WLAN)-enabled PDAs based on
Microsoft's Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC. As
with the PC version of the software, it allows
users to make free, high-quality voice calls to
fellow Skype users over a broadband P2P network.
By Datamonitor
Published Friday 9th April 2004 09:44 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/09/skype_voip_pdas/ |
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Affordable Wireless Internet For All:
How Media Activists Are Making Champaign-Urbana
Illinois A Model For Community Wi-Fi
Friday, May 13th, 2005 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/13/1437255 DEMOCRACY NOW |
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Community Internet Under
Attack
...citizens
across the United States can now set up their own
affordable municipal Internet initiatives where
entire communities can achieve high- speed
Internet connectivity at relatively low cost,
thanks to increasingly affordable technologies
like under-the-ground copper wiring and wireless
connections. On the other hand, in the wake of a
2004 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, major cable and
telecommunications companies have been lobbying
state legislatures to make such initiatives
illegal, or legal only under highly constrained
conditions. These companies rally under the
banner of “telecom reform” in order to
gain captured markets for themselves.
August
2005 By Mitchell Szczepanczyk http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Images/szczepanszyk0905.html ACTIVISM ONLINE |
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Wi-fi cities spark hotspot debate
A growing number of cities in the US are treating
high-speed internet as a basic amenity for
citizens, like running water or the electricity
grid. But as the concept expands so does the
battle with big business. Big telecoms firms -
who have invested billions in cable or fibre
optic links to millions of US homes - are waging
a legislative and PR campaign against municipal
initiatives. Currently there is a bill going
through Congress, sponsored by the Texan
Republican Pete Sessions, that aims to
ban cities from building municipal broadband
networks under most circumstances.
Thursday, 20 October 2005 By
Matthew Davis http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4351400.stm
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How wireless technology can liberate the
poor
Developments is a free quarterly magazine
produced by DFID to increase awareness of
development issues.
DFID Leading the British Government's fight
against world poverty.
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/news/files/devawareness/developments-lead-nov05.asp
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City-wide wi-fi networks are
beginning to be rolled out across the United
States
City-wide wi-fi networks are
beginning to be rolled out across the United
States. One of the most high-profile is a network
operated by search giant Google. Thanks to
Google, the city has been blanketed by wi-fi,
which will soon allow its residents to connect to
the wireless internet all over the city for free.
Monday, 7 August 2006 By Katie
Fehrenbacher staff writer for the GigaOm
website
BBC News Mountain View,
California
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5251646.stm
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The
city of Palo Alto, California wants to own fibre
network
A high-tech mecca in Silicon Valley
wants to get even more connected by rolling out a
super fast fiber network for all
its residents.
The city of Palo Alto, California, home to many
major IT vendors and venture capital firms, last
week put out an RFP (request for proposals)
seeking a private partner to build a
fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network. The required
speed: 100M bps (bits per second) both downstream
and upstream. And as debate swirls in nearby San Francisco over how much
the city should be involved in a proposed
citywide Wi-Fi network, Palo Alto's position is
clear: It wants to eventually own the whole fiber
network.
October 3 2006 By:
Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service (San Francisco
Bureau)
http://www.intergovworld.com/article/0e5991e80a01040801c7c7c3f9bb23c2/pg1.htm
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BT
aims to make UK a Wi-Fi kibbutz
BT unveiled ambitious plans today to
create the world's most extensive Wi-Fi network
by persuading consumers to share access to their
home router. "It was amazing and
refreshing to see how agile a telco giant could
be in working with an innovative concept like the
BT FON Community."
By Chris Williams
? More by this author
Published
Thursday 4th October 2007 12:18 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/04/bt_fon_wifi_kibbutz/
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Better broadband for rural
Britain: we’re so well connected
High-speed internet remains a pipe dream
for many remote communities, but some are
bridging the digital divide on their own.
Remarkable stories telling how small
groups of socially concerned individuals have
hooked up entire villages to the net come
as the Government dithers over providing
fast broadband for all of Britain, or whether to
leave us divided.
Disraeli would recognise the emergence
of our two internet nations: one with fast
broadband, one without,
one part of society, one excluded.
By Jasper Gerard
07 Aug 2009 7:00AM
BST Telegraph Online
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/5984243/Better-broadband-for-rural-Britain-were-so-well-connected.html
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The
Quest for Internet Radio Standards
Internet Media Device Alliance (IMDA): To say
that current Internet radio standards are out of
hand is an understatement. “Right now, an
Internet radio manufacturer can choose from 20
different codecs, plus different bit rates,”
said Arthur Taylor, Reciva head of software and a
member of the IMDA technical committee.
“Worse yet, more codecs are being developed
and released; many of which are incompatible with
existing Internet radios.” In an effort to
end the madness, radio manufacturers and
broadcasters have banded together to form the
Internet Media Device Alliance (IMDA). The
IMDA’s mission is a simple one: to come up
with a widely accepted minimum set of Internet
radio codecs, so that broadcasters and
manufacturers alike can use them to reach most
listeners at the least cost.
The Quest for Internet Radio Standards
26 Oct 2009 by James
Careless, Radioworld
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60GHz Wi-Fi coming next year (2012)
The WA is partnered with
the Wi-Fi Alliance to drive this. The IEEE 802.11ad committee is developing a formal spec.
And Wilocity, a new company, has partnered with
Atheros to deliver a tri-band (2.4, 5 and 60 GHz)
chipset.
By Robin Harris
January 6, 2011, 9:34am PST ZNet
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/60ghz-wi-fi-coming-next-year/1240 |
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Next-Generation Wi-Fi
Hotspot Infrastructure Launched at MWC
At Mobile World Congress, Cisco introduced
the industry's first carrier-grade, end-to-end
Wi-Fi infrastructure to deliver Next-Generation
Hotspots (NGH).
The company also announced that it is
working with several leading global service
providers -- including AT&T, BT, PCCW mobile,
Portugal Telecom, Shaw Communications, Smart and
True -- to deliver innovative mobile services
with a new generation of intelligent "small
cell" solutions utilizing licensed and
unlicensed radio technology.
Cisco, which is now embedding Wireless
Broadband Alliance (WBA)-approved NGH technology
within its service provider Wi-Fi portfolio,
recently became the first to deploy NGH
technology to enable cellular-like roaming for
Wi-Fi networks. The WBA's NGH initiative is
based on the Hotspot 2.0 specification
established by the Wi-Fi Alliance and is designed
to provide mobile users with a seamless Wi-Fi
experience.
Posted By David
Deans, 29 February
2012 | 0
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