Atheros Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATHR), a leading developer of advanced wireless solutions, today announced its ongoing drive to deliver the highest performance wireless LAN (WLAN) technologies ...
Qualcomm is making two acquisitions of Bluetooth and WLAN (wireless LAN) chip technologies, allowing it to further the integration of wireless networking capabilities in mobile phones. The company ...
COMMENTARY--Much debate is brewing over whether Bluetooth will replace WLAN standards like 802.11b. Yet, how can a technology, initially developed for cable replacement, be seen as a threat to a ...
Extreme Networks plans to acquire Zebra Technologies' wireless LAN business for $55 million, creating the industry’s third largest WLAN enterprise campus provider. The San Jose, Calif.-based ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. &#151 Intersil is taking steps to expand its market share in the wireless LAN (WLAN) sector through a development pact with ParthusCeva. Under terms of the deal, Intersil will license ...
It can get confusing which technologies have been standardized, implemented in products, and certified for enterprise use. At the recent Burton Group Catalyst Conference in San Francisco, Greg Ennis ...
Ethernet switch vendors who offer combined or unified LAN and WLAN gear say the ultimate goal is to get wired and wireless network technologies to appear as a single network access layer. However, ...
In a recent CNET News.com column, Richard Lowe suggested that Cellular and Wireless LAN are competitive technologies. These two wireless approaches, however, are actually allies in the race to ...
As discussed last month in the first of this series on 802.11 testing, traditional WLAN-system testing methods are inherently at odds. Examples of such testing methods include isolated screen rooms ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — ParthusCeva Inc. has licensed elements of the Prism 802.11a, .11b and .11g wireless local-area network chip sets from Intersil Corp. and plans to offer them as licensable ...
Often lumped together, but WLAN and WiFi are not the same thing Photo: Getty Images The terms “WLAN” and “WiFi” are often used to describe the wireless network in your own home or Internet access in a ...
The Chinese government has granted licensing rights for the security protocol at the heart of China’s national WLAN (wireless LAN) standard to nine more companies, a spokeswoman for the State ...