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125-Year-Old Private School Delivers Anytime/Anywhere Access to Academic Resources Using 3Com Wireless Switches & Access Points

Founded in 1879 as Philadelphia's first private school for girls, Springside School is committed to giving its 639 college-bound students the very best education 21st century resources can provide. Although fast, secure, and reliable, the initial 3Com solution limited student and faculty access to wired Ethernet ports. This restricted the...

Tags: Wireless Switch, 3Com Corp., Access Point, Ethernet, Productivity, Routers & Switches, Networking

Case studies 2009-01-01

Athol Murray College of Notre Dame Installs Easy-to-Control Wi-Fi Network in Challenging, Mixed-Structure Campus

If Notre Dame's students wanted Internet access, they had to physically connect into Ethernet lines at two locations on campus. Both students and faculty lobbied for better availability - wired or wireless. Anything would be an improvement. Notre Dame needed an easy to install solution that wouldn't burden their two-man...

Tags: D-Link Systems, Wireless Switch, Wireless, Home Networking, Routers & Switches, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Networking, Personal Technology

Case studies 2007-10-04

Unified Wireless Switching: Enabling a Truly Converged Network

As businesses scale, traditional wireless network deployments become more complex, more costly and less secure. Users expect the ability to roam between access points. New applications like Wi-Fi VoIP require the ability to roam seamlessly and securely, for example. Wireless switches provide a simple, centralized, iron-clad solution, with management tools,...

Tags: Converged Network, Network, Wireless Switch, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Routers & Switches, Wireless And Mobility, Networking

White papers 2007-03-01

What Is a Wireless Switch and the Value of the Overlay Architecture?

Today there is a new and better way to implement a wireless local area network in the enterprise - the Wireless Switch with overlay architecture. This approach involves overlaying a centrally controlled and managed wireless LAN switch and "thin" access ports onto an Ethernet foundation. Compared to the traditional "thick"...

Tags: Wireless Switch, Symbol Technologies Inc., Wireless, Wi-Fi, LANs, Wireless And Mobility, Routers & Switches, Wireless LANs, Networking

White papers 2005-01-01

Leading PC Manufacturer in Australia Fulfills e-Commerce Strategy With Secure 3Com Enterprise Data and Wireless Switches

Computer networks are vital for most enterprises, but for Acer Computer Australia Acer, a regional division of Acer Computer, the world's fourth largest marketer of PC products, a network stoppage could be catastrophic. With even a minute of downtime affecting its revenues, Acer relied on a single, legacy Cisco switch,...

Tags: PC, Wireless Switch, 3Com Corp., Acer Inc., E-business, Wireless, Ethernet, Networking

Case studies

Additional Resources

AVADirect Nano Cube

AVADirect's $2,266 Nano Cube tries to take on Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 at its own small form factor game. Both systems come with smaller-than-normal SFF cases, and each requires sacrifices, even more than with a standard SFF PC, in exchange for its tiny dimensions. Therein lies our problem with this...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Games, Shuttle XPC, SFF, small form factor, Cube, Shuttle, Nano, DVD burner, PC, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., AVADirect, game

Product reviews 2009-11-04

Make room for another e-reader as Creative shows off prototype

Market is ripeFor Chinese factories to crank out more hardware and suck more dollars out of the middle class.Clue in America.Transition product I do believe that e-book readers are largely a transition product which will eventually be made more or less obsolete by advances in netbook/smartbook etc. technologies. Multiple devices...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, E-books, e-reader, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Wireless Snif 4.138 (Windows)

IRC, EMail, AIM, ICQ sniffer. A program that intercepts messages and user details, including passwords, across the whole LAN in real time. It is possible to receive and view all these messages to and from all LAN users in the same time they will receive or send it. All intercepted...

Tags: Message, Microsoft Windows, Wireless, Ufasoft, LANs, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Network Technology, Networking, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-01

Adesso WKB-3100UB wireless keyboard with trackball

The $80 Adesso WKB-3100UB wireless keyboard is a good mini keyboard for surfing the Web from your sofa, but it's a nightmare to use as an everyday keyboard and trackball. The keyboard is usable most of the time, but its inaccurate trackball, poor button press recognition, sticking keys, lack of...

Tags: Keyboards, wireless keyboard, wireless, keyboard-and-mouse, keyboard, Adesso, trackball

Product reviews 2009-10-29

Dell unveils 12.1" rugged multitouch tablet PC, Latitude XT2 XFR; withstands drops, spills, sand, children

This is the kind of stuff Apple's Baubles can't matchYou just can't find this kind of diverse hardware options down at the Bauble Factory.Will the hinge break?Will it break if I dropped it while typing? The hinge seems a very vulnerable part.As for the Apple - they can match. In...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Desktops, Operating systems, Dell Latitude, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., PC, tablet PC, tablet

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Samsung Intrepid (Sprint)

The Samsung Intrepid made its debut at CTIA Fall 2009 as Sprint's first Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone. Admittedly, we weren't particularly impressed by the handset's drab and slightly plasticky design when we saw it at the show but now that we've had some time to get to know the device,...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Handhelds, Sprint Communications, Samsung Intrepid, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., touch screen

Product reviews 2009-10-22

Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers

how about telling us how to fix it?Can the customer log into their own router and change the vulnerable settings? Please advise.Patetic simply pateticThis is a worst case scenario... Time Warner is guilty of having used the same Admin Name/Password on all their routers and from what I read on...

Tags: Routers & switches, Modems, Network technology, NETWORKING, SMC8014, Model Number, Time Warner Cable Inc., router, modem, Time Warner Inc., Comcast Corp., security

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

AT&T cuts churn rate; Activates 3.2 million iPhones; Touts network upgrades

It will be interesting to see if Droid ....... effects that churn rate.If AT&T wanted me in their network......AT&T must lower the deposit to $100 instead of $500.Sorry, AT&T! You lost and Sprint is the winner! :)What deposite?We paid no deposite.Not at the start.Many people just bought into the 2...

Tags: Smart phones, network upgrade, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, network, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Apple Magic Mouse

Apple's latest pointer, the Magic Mouse, is included with its new iMac desktops, but you can purchase it separately for $69. Just don't confuse it with the Mighty Mouse, because although they're the same price, the differences end there. The Magic Mouse gets an aerodynamic face-lift and also supports...

Tags: Mice, mouse, Magic Mouse, Apple Inc.

Product reviews 2009-10-21

LG Bliss - white (US Cellular)

LG is one of the top makers of touch-screen feature phones, and though many of them go to big national carriers like Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless like the LG enV Touch and the LG Xenon for example, quite a number of them make it to regional carrier U.S. Cellular...

Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, U.S. Cellular, LG Electronics Inc., home screen, LG Bliss, phone, Bliss

Product reviews 2009-10-14

Logitech Wireless Desktop MK700 - keyboard, mouse

Logitech offers a huge selection of keyboards and mice that each cater to a different consumer, but its Wireless Desktop MK700 is meant for the everyday user that just needs a comfortable combo that won't break the bank. We're disappointed that it doesn't use Logitech's newest input device technologies, but...

Tags: Keyboards, Mice, Engineering, Logitech, keyboard, mouse

Product reviews 2009-10-12

Mint Studio Speaker System

The last Mint product we looked at--the Mint 220 Wireless Digital Music Station--offered us something that we had not yet seen in an iPod speaker dock. Instead of combining iPod playback with a CD player or AM/FM alarm clock radio, the Mint 220 gave us the ability to wirelessly stream...

Tags: Digital media, USB extender, USB, Apple iPod

Product reviews 2009-10-12

The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google ink collaboration pact; Promise 'innovative applications'

The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google ink collaboration pact; Promise Time to change my phone carrier, I don't need Google taking control and recording my conversations like they tried to do with Chrome.Yes yes yes!Hope for choice and an area of computing not controlled and manipulated by MSRE: The Android...

Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Communications Inc., collaboration pact, Google Inc., Verizon Wireless, phone, VZW, Apple iPhone, innovative application, collaboration

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Ballmer: Microsoft never recovered from Vista blow

Word of Mouth...... trumps design and usability. Seems that once the drumming starts in the ABM crowd, there is little to do about the avalanche of "me too-ism."Vista is a fine operating system done in by third party vendors who refused to update their drivers to work with Vista's...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), NetworkManager, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Revisiting RIM: Are the enterprise storm clouds brewing?

In the context of the scenario...it could very well come down to iPhone v. RIM. If, as posited, businesses adopt a BYOP model. That kind of thing doesn't matter what wireless network your using, if they'll open exchange up for you to hook your iPhone to. Which may - and...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, data plan, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., BIS, RIM BlackBerry, Verizon Communications Inc., Research In Motion Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-09-30