Alvarion announces two customer deals
By: By Dan O'Shea
Broadband wireless vendor Alvarion has announced two separate customer deals, one with Texas broadband operator Rioplex Wireless, and the other with a large unidentified carrier in Latin America...
Reef Point joins Alcatel's UMA/IMS programs
By: By Dan O'Shea
Reef Point Systems, a vendor of security solutions focused on fixed-mobile converged networks, announced that it has signed an OEM agreement with Alcatel, under which the companies will integrate Reef Point's Multiservice Security Gateway into Alcatel's Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solutions. ...
Alcatel, Tekelec extend OEM deal
By: By Carol Wilson
LastMile opens U.S. office
By: By Kevin Fitchard
U.K. location-based services developer LastMile Communications is expanding overseas, announcing today it is opening up a U.S. sales and operations office in Raleigh, N.C. ...
UWB ready to hit market in 2006
By: By Vince Vittore
Next month’s International CES show in Las Vegas should mark a turning point for ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless technology as vendors move out of experimentation and into real product development....
RFS to debut new tower-top system at 3GSM
By: By Dan O'Shea
Radio Frequency Systems is getting a jump on what's sure to be a glut of new product announcements leading up to the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona this coming February. The company this week announced that it will unveil its new Optimizer Plus tower-top assembly at the show. The integrated system consists of an antenna, tower-mounted amplifier and antenna tilt control unit. ...
Airvana developing ground-to-plane base station
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CDMA base station maker Airvana is retooling its CDMA 1X EV-DO kit to act as an air-to-ground backhaul link, enabling Wi-Fi in airplanes...
Verizon testing Nortel IMS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Communications is testing Nortel's IP multimedia subsystem architecture in its labs, evaluating the technology for its potential to provide converged voice, data and video services over its new fiber-to-the-premises networks. (Photo: Newscom)...
In-Stat: WiMAX chip market still uncertain
By: By Dan O'Shea
The new "Wireless Superchips" market research report by In-Stat provides for one growth scenario under which the WiMAX chipset market could be worth $950 million by 2009, but also allows for a more conservative possible growth track to about $450 million by 2009...
Nextcode launches wireless barcode reading service
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Wireless startup Nextcode today launched a barcode scanning service for wireless phones that allows businesses to create data-rich personalized barcodes that can be read by an ordinary camera phone....
The RFID revolution
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Radio frequency identification is moving into the global supply chain, but with that transition comes a need for a global data management network. AT&T thinks it can help the technology through its growing pains...
Alcatel, KT to test WiMAX in Seoul
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel today said it is opening a testing facility in Seoul, South Korea, with carrier KT to conduct tests of its new WiMAX and WiBRO equipment...
Openera intros wireless peer-to-peer video service
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Mobile client software-maker Openera Technologies this week revealed a new peer-to-peer video-sharing application, which integrates directly into its Active Phone Book user interface used by Lucent Technologies in its IP multimedia subsystem architecture platforms....
Wi-Fi Alliance adds Power Save to program
By: By Dan O'Shea
The Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi Multimedia product certification program now includes WMM Power Save, a new certification framework that answers the concerns about wireless device battery drain...
Ericsson to manage 3's network
By: By Dan O'Shea
U.K. mobile carrier 3 has become the latest network operator to hand over operation and management of its network to vendor giant Ericsson under a seven-year agreement, the companies announced today...
Network Chemistry announces wireless threat database
By: By Dan O'Shea
Wireless security vendor Network Chemistry has announced the creation of an online Wireless Vulnerabilities and Exploits database intended to be a universal collection point for credible information about security threats affecting multiple wireless technologies....
Verizon to use MediaFLO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless became the first carrier to take sides in the mobile TV technology wars, announcing today it would launch multicast multimedia services using Qualcomm's MediaFLO network (Photographers/ Source: ALBERT GEA/Reuters/Landov)...
Cisco may replace Symbol as WLAN switch leader
By: By Ed Gubbins
Symbol Technologies, the first vendor to launch a wireless LAN switch, faces an increased threat to its dominance of that market from router giant Cisco Systems, according to data released today by Infonetics Research....
Ericsson wins softswitch deal with SunCom
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson today landed its first U.S. mobile softswitch deployment, announcing a deal for its IP switching infrastructure and future Wi-Fi/cellular convergence trials with southeastern operator SunCom Wireless....
InFocus: Bringing fixed and mobile together
By: By Steve Shaw
How will unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology evolve, especially within the framework of the new world of IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) architectures? Read more about the necessary convergence of UMA and IMS....
FLO Forum ratifies mobile multimedia spec
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The association created by Qualcomm to standardize its proprietary forward link only mobile TV technology has released its first technical specification for the platform's air interface...
AirBand adds markets, execs in hunt for broadband wins
By: By Dan O'Shea
Two former broadband executives see future growth coming organically...
Wi-Fi certification nears convergence
By: By Dan O'Shea
Back when Wi-Fi access wasn't as easy to find as a cup of coffee, the Wi-Fi Alliance seemed like a lone voice in the broadband wilderness...
The new shared network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson has quietly built up a portfolio of managed services that have gained traction with U.S. carriers, including a shared network core onto which Tier 2 operators are launching...
The managed services era begins
By: By Dan O'Shea
Network hosting is just one kind of managed service offering that could change the way the major vendors do business...
