Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Cisco adds 802.11ac, cloud features to new home router

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Cisco adds 802.11ac, cloud features to new home router
Cisco's Linksys brand of home wireless networking routers today joined other vendors in coming out with 802.11ac equipment, as well as enabling a cloud-based platform for configuration and control of its "Smart Wi-Fi Routers." Read More


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Antennas: The Old School TV Networks
40-years ago I was on a tower in the middle of the West Virgina hills putting up an antenna for state of the art TV reception. That is, I was installing a TV antenna. In WV, with few TV stations and lots of low mountains the only way you got TV was by having someone like my dad and his assistant—aka me—install up to 100-foot tall towers and antennas on top of them. That was then. This is now. Read... Read More


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For such a nice tablet, Microsoft is doing a lot of things wrong
Now that the dust is settling on the Microsoft Surface tablet, all of the details are coming out, and it looks like this whole tablet adventure is turning into one big boondoggle, and given the shaky state of things, Microsoft can't afford any missteps. For more than 20 years, Microsoft has been in a very select hardware business. It limited itself to input devices – keyboards and mice – along... Read More


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First World Problems: Problems With My Wifi At 30K Feet
I flew yesterday from Ft Lauderdale to Albany, NY to watch my son in a baseball tournament this week. The only non-stop flights were on Southwest Airlines. When I made the reservations and again when we checked in online I was happy to see that Southwest was now offering wifi service on their planes. Read More

Small cells and Wi-Fi to carry 60% of mobile traffic by 2016
Small cell and WiFi systems will carry nearly 60 percent of all mobile traffic over the next five years, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Read More

Cisco: Enterprise 802.11ac Sooner, Not Later
Cisco recently briefed me on an interesting product direction they discussed at their latest Cisco Live event, an add-on 802.11ac module for their popular 3600 series of APs. In addition to being one of the few four-antenna .11n products on the market, the 3600 has a modular architecture that enables the bolting on of additional functionality. Read More

 
 
 

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