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June 12, 2012  2:52 PM

Cisco Live: Petco Park prepares to light up wireless



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
distributed antenna system, mobility, Networking, Nexus, wireless LAN

SAN DIEGO -- Next month Petco Park, the home of Major League Baseball's San Diego Padres, will turn on a distributed antenna system and a wireless LAN to provide wireless access for all of its fans. The Padres, a...

January 10, 2012  4:30 PM

Gigabit Wi-Fi previewed at CES



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
CES, gigabit Wi-Fi, Networking, Wi-Fi, wireless LAN

A number of vendors are showing off early demonstrations of gigabit Wi-Fi at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las...


September 7, 2011  7:27 AM

Can your WLAN keep up with the tablet explosion?



Posted by: rivkalittle
Aruba, Cisco, HP, Meru, Motorola, smart phones, tablets, wireless LAN, wlan growth

Research firm Canalys reports that the enterprise


August 9, 2011  10:12 AM

Adtran buys wireless LAN vendor Bluesocket



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Adtran, Bluesocket, Juniper, Juniper Networks, mergers & acquisitions, Networking, Trapeze Networks, wireless LAN, wireless LAN controllers

It's a song you've heard before. The days of overlay wireless LANs are coming to an end as enterprises start to integrate the build-out and management of wired and...

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November 17, 2010  5:42 PM

In game of wireless LAN musical chairs, Juniper ends up with Trapeze



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco, Juniper, Juniper Networks, Networking, Trapeze Networks, wireless LAN, Wireless networking

Like celestial bodies wandering the cosmos, networking vendors and wireless LAN vendors are drawn to each other's inescapable gravity .  Wired networking vendors have been buying wireless LAN vendors since the dawn of the wireless LAN controller. Cisco Systems, for instance, had little more to...


November 5, 2010  3:41 PM

Motorola on the future of the wireless LAN controller



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Aerohive, Brocade, cloud, Extreme Networks, Meraki, Motorola, wireless LAN, wireless LAN controllers, Wireless networking, wlans

Recently Motorola announced a significant change to its wireless LAN architecture with its WiNG 5 announcement. With WiNG 5, Motorola is running identical...


October 8, 2010  4:22 PM

Motorola smartens access points, pulls back WLAN controllers



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Aerohive, Aruba, Cisco, Enterasys, Meraki, Motorola, Networking, Wi-Fi, wireless LAN, Wireless networking

The role of the wireless LAN controller appliance is shifting dramatically. The days of the dumb access point are severely numbered. Motorola became just the latest WLAN vendor to deemphasize the role of its controller appliance in its architecture with its new


July 30, 2010  4:35 PM

New WPA2 vulnerability a wireless version of ARP spoofing, says Wi-Fi Alliance



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Network security, Network testing and hacking, Wi-Fi, wireless LAN

When researchers say they've found a vulnerability in WPA2 (WiFi Protected Access) security standard, wireless LAN administrators stand up and take notice. Md. Sohail Ahmad, a researcher with wireless security vendor Airtight...


June 18, 2010  5:07 PM

2010 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN: Few changes for a rapidly evolving industry



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
10 Gigabit Ethernet, 3Com, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, data center networks, Enterasys, Extreme Networks, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Force10, Gartner, HP Networking, IP telepony, Juniper, LAN, Magic Quadrant, mergers & acquisitions, NAC, Networking, nortel, wireless LAN

Gartner rolled out a new Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN this month and it looks remarkably similar to last year's, even though Gartner itself acknowledges that the network switching industry is...


March 11, 2010  5:07 PM

Wireless LAN market on fire, Motorola closing in on Aruba while Cisco slips



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
802.11n, Alcatel-Lucent, Aruba, Cisco, Dell'Oro, HP ProCurve, Meru, Motorola, wireless LAN

Market research firm dell'Oro Group has published its latest quarterly market update on the wireless LAN industry. According...