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Cisco unveils home office wireless access points
Cisco introduced four devices aimed at improving the performance and security of home offices used by corporate workers.
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Netgear tunes SMBs to 802.11n signal
Netgear has announced network and storage gear aimed at a range of small and mid-size businesses, including a new 802.11n wireless LAN product line.
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Motorola adds branch AP to WLAN
Motorola says it has the first branch-office WLAN access point that can continue to operate securely when the WAN goes down ? but rivals says it's playing catch-up. The products are "802.11n ready," but Motorola is yet to announce support for the new fast wireless LAN standard.
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Aruba buys multi-vendor WLAN firm AirWave
Enterprise Wi-Fi vendor Aruba Networks is going to buy AirWave Wireless, a multi-vendor WLAN management company, in a bid to take business from Cisco. The purchase may prove awkward for rival companies who work with Airwave.
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Aruba launches 802.11n products
Aruba Networks is the last major wireless LAN vendor to launch 802.11n fast Wi-Fi wireless LAN products - but it claims to have better power-over-Ethernet support and central switching than the competition.
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Nortel to launch own wireless products
Nortel is looking to introduce its own set of 802.11n wireless LAN products in 2008, as part of a strategy to create wholly wireless offices.
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802.11n fast Wi-Fi officially reaches draft 2.0
Draft 2.0 of the 802.11n wireless-networking standard has been approved by an IEEE working group. The move means that 'draft 2.0' 100+Mbps (megabits per second) wireless LAN products could be on sale as early as summer 2007.
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Wi-Fi Alliance jumps the wireless-N gun
The Wi-Fi Alliance will start certifying next-generation wireless LAN products in the first half of next year, despite the standard not being complete.
