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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., LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Routers & Switches, Wireless LANs, Networking

White papers 2005-01-01

Deutsche Messe AG Chooses the Wireless Switch System From Symbol Technologies to Power World's Largest Hotspot at CeBIT 2003

Based in Hannover, Germany, Deutsche Messe AG DMAG is one of the world´s leading organizers of trade fairs and exhibitions. Deutsche Messe AG DMAG, organizers of the CeBIT 2003 trade fair and exhibition, wanted to develop a secure wireless local area network WLAN with reliable Wi-Fi Internet access for visitors,...

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

Case studies

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

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LHC scientists get death threats

LHC scientists get death threatsIgnorance produces fear...And issuing death threats is not the christian thing to do. And $10.00 to a donut will get you that a religiously motivated faction is behind the threats. Something to research further.RE: LHC scientists get death threats - is it because Roger Federer lost...

Tags: Anti-Matter, LHC, death threat

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

LHC scientists get death threats

So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University,...

Tags: Black Hole, Physicist, Scientist, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Mainstream media writes Windows obit

Mainstream media writes Windows obitMS should have never...killed off XP. Especially when such a huge segment of the market is tired of being forced fed what they do not want.This article makes a good point about users beginning to realize that as long as they can hit the web rather...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), LIKE IT, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., mainstream media, Windows obit, Microsoft Windows Vista, obit, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging

The crossover is close. The Internet is poised to overtake the newspaper industry in total size as an advertising medium. And the question is whether it can also overtake it as a news medium. Says here, the year will be 2011. That is likely to be when...

Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Internet Advertising, News, Governor, Internet, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Wireless Access: What Price Speed

Wireless Access: What Price SpeedQuick Question.....Why do people still stand for "locking-in" a 2 year contract to do anything with Verizon?No contract, free WIFI and same speed.... seem's like a no-brainer to me.RE: Wireless Access: What Price SpeedAt least here in NYC Metro area they have you coming and...

Tags: 3G, INTERNET, Wireless LANs, Fios, boro, Verizon Communications Inc., wireless access, Wi-Fi, wireless

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...

Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Vista Audio Changer (zip)

A system tray application which allows the user to switch their Default Audio Output Device at the click of a mouse - extremely useful for users with multiple sound cards, or multiple outputs on a single sound card. Version 1.01b has added Hotkey support and Device Ordering for computers which...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Audio Card, System Tray, RSoft

Software downloads 2008-09-05

Google Chrome already beating Opera

Google Chrome already beating OperaWaiting for Windows Mobile 6 version... if they can create a version for Windows Mobile to rival safari on iPhone, they'll have me seriously thinking about it.Otherwise, it's just another browser for the desktop by another large conglomerate.Full screen problemI have my task bar on the...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, work-around, Google Inc., Chrome, Google Chrome, Opera Software

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Google Chrome already beating Opera

Maybe Google really does have something here -- in just two days, they have leapfrogged Opera in market share, and have their eyes set on bigger fish. I would have thought that Google's foray into the browser market would have taken a bit more time to develop, but it...

Tags: Google Inc., Opera Software, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Cablevision blankets Long Island with Wi-Fi

Cablevision Systems, one of the biggest cable providers in the New York City metro area, announced that it's completed the first stage of a massive Wi-Fi network project called Optimum WiFi that will eventually cover the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tri-state area. The company says that its wireless networking equipment now...

Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL games

Adobe just announced that the NFL is going to use Flash to deliver live, online streaming video for NBC Sunday and Thursday night football games. You can go watch the games on NBCSports.com right now. It looks like they used Flex to build the player and I assume they're using...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NBC, NFL, Video, Live Streaming, Video Quality, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Wireless networking finally hits the ceiling

Wireless networking finally hits the ceilingMy home Wifi cost $120For the router/hub/firewall, a second AP/hub/printserver, and 2 USB Wifi NICs for desktop computers that did not have Wifi built in. The 3 laptops in the family all came with Wifi onboard. For an upgrade, I will spring $30 for an...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Desktops, ceiling, wireless networking, wireless, network

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Comcast sues FCC over net neutrality ruling

Comcast sues FCC over net neutrality rulingIs this Government megalomania?Or is Comcast grasping at straws in a sinking ship on a road to no return!The cable companies poor planningshouldn't hurt the users. There have been many suggestions of how they could improve the way their network runs with out...

Tags: Federal government, Cable, TVs, Broadband Internet, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, Comcast Corp., FCC, Net Neutrality, Mbits/S, cable-tv service

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 out now

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 out nowXP model lowest priceLowest price I could manage was $429 after de-selecting the bluetooth option. How did you get $399? Looks like they're automatically subtracting the $45 as instant savings. I wondered how they were offering the webcam, 512 mb ram, 4 gb bigger SSD...

Tags: Notebooks, Bluetooth, Dell Inspiron Mini, Dell Inspiron Mini 9, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

How important is boot performance?

How important is boot performance?Boot performance is very importantA computer should only take as long to get to working state as a television - 10 seconds tops - with either the option of restoring the exact shutdown state or a fresh rebooted OS.Moderate importance overallBootup speed is not really a...

Tags: Performance management, PRODUCTIVITY, Patches, Operating systems, boot time, performance, computer, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Wireless Access: What Price Speed

Is Verizon missing a trick in its trench warfare with Cablevision? Or has the maverick cable operator found an Achilles heel in the telephone operator's methods of providing TV, phone and particularly Internet access to customers in the New York area – and possibly nationwide? One...

Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, Wireless Access, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Broadband Internet, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-04

My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbook

My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbookTotally different machines.A netbook is a full laptop. Yes, the industry is trying to keep the impression that it is only for casual use, etc, but there is little only constrained by ram these netbooks can't do (well, with Linux). ...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, UNIX, Operating systems, laptop computer, keyboard, netbook, Linux, ASUS, Linux laptop

Discussion threads 2008-09-04