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The Source for Wi-Fi Business and Technology For those with high-speed online connections, Internet calling and videoconferencing are finally taking off. So is the selection of tools. A third of NZ broadband users have Skype, telco says. Telecom New Zealand says it sees peer-to-peer telephony Skype as a "competitive threat" and is monitoring and investigating it at all levels. News.com article: Can Skype live up to the Net phone hype? NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, chose Tropos's Wi-Fi cell technology to test this year at its annual space simulation exercises in the Arizona desert near Flagstaff. Even better, NASA liked what it saw. Auckland's Viaduct Basin looks set to become a high speed wireless Heaven, for at least a select few, as a new technology with world-beating potential takes a bow on the harbour. As analysts look at the year 2002, they reveal that most wireless LAN products vendors had continued success as the market for 802.11 products grew. IBM Corp., AT&T and Intel are joining forces with two investment firms to start a new company that will provide wireless Internet access at hotels, retail stores, gas stations and similar venues. The new company, called Cometa Networks, plans to roll out wireless access starting next year in 50 major metropolitan areas. IBM Corp., AT&T and Intel are joining forces with two investment firms to start a new company that will provide wireless Internet access at hotels, retail stores, gas stations and similar venues. The new company, called Cometa Networks, plans to roll out wireless access starting next year in 50 major metropolitan areas. The six regional broadband pilots and the government's budget announcement are vitally important initiatives, but in some parts of rural New Zealand, the private sector is providing services. Invercargill-based ISP SouthNet established Wi-Fi (802.11b) services in Invercargill last year, allowing businesses with line-of-sight connections to its wireless broadcast point atop a city hotel to use a service it says is competitive with Telecom's JetStream. The temperature of a technology can usually be gauged by having a shufty at who's putting money and energy into it. On that basis, Wi-Fi is a trifle warm now that Toshiba, HP and Microsoft have come to the party. Wireless communications providers who have installed high-speed internet links serving some of the most remote locations say the Government broadband... The government's budget night announcement that "tens of millions" of dollars are to be set aside for developing broadband in the regions means existing pilot schemes in six parts of the country will be overridden, says communications minister Paul Swain. WiFi -- Telecom's Nemesis?, June 19 Aardvark article Wireless broadband (sometimes called WiFi) seems to be all the rage right now -- mainly thanks to the arrival of relatively low-cost hardware and, in some cases, a growing dissatisfaction with DSL performance and coverage. Wellington's CafeNet wireless network project is soon to go into beta testing mode. The project, being run by Wellington metropolitan ethernet provider CityLink, so far involves 11 wireless LANs. They eminate from nodes of the ethernet network at sites including the Wellington Public Library and the city's James Cook hotel. Wi-Fi, or 802.11b, wireless equipment is being used. The big T goes shopping - 50 hotspots for $3.3 million. Telstra Corp and SkyNetGlobal Limited today announced two agreements that will see the startup sell its network of wireless hotspots, while beginning a relationship that will allow them to sell services on top of Telstra's newly minted infrastructure. Tony Crabtree not only believes that 802.11 wireless is ideal for the last-mile component of rural broadband services, but that ISPs based upon it will grow to a global market worth $10.25 billion in five years. Wireless broadband is the way forward Cisco Systems New Zealand Country Manager, Tim Hemingway, says moves by a number of New Zealand investors to back increased wireless broadband usuage is a way to future proof NewZealand business -- and that high speed wireless initiatives are past due. The news just keeps pouring in from the 802.11 Planet Conference in Philadelphia, run by INT Media Group. Can Public Hotspots Make Money? Wi-Fi Goes to School Three's Company on 802.11 Planet Self-Healing Peer-to-Peer Mesh The New Shape of WLAN Cards Australia's first fixed wireless network launches Paddington trial, but will the wild WiFi west win out? There are two competing schools of thought in the thesis of wireless broadband; one betting on the economics of exclusivity and the other on the Darwinian dogfight of open markets. The setting seems all too familiar: a technology standard gets grassroots support and a movement starts, shedding light on a once-vague notion. As popularity grows, venture capitalists rush in; big business takes notice; and evangelists predict this will change how we work and live. By CHRIS BART0N IT editor The Far North District Council looks set to achieve something never seen in New Zealand - true telecommunications competition for an entire region. Sure, we've seen pockets of what this might be like in places such as Lower ... Lieberman Joins Broadband Clamor -- internetnews.com New legislation would require Bush administration to develop plan to help deployment of high-speed Internet. Unwiring Texas - -- 802.11 Planet A seamless, wireless network may someday provide broadband anywhere in the Lone Star State if the company behind it can get the immediate funding and future cooperation needed. The release in the US of backwards-compatible wireless network equipment that runs at double the technology's predicted maximum speed is great news, wireless ISPs in this country say. High-gain antennae are legal for use in wireless point-to-point connections, as long as the power output doesn't exceed four watts. Can 802.11 Become A Viable Last-Mile Alternative? Net pioneer David Farber says it offers unprecedented opportunities for keeping people connected -- and creative. Wi-Fi is about to go mainstream, says David Farber, professor of telecommunications at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the industry's top networking experts. That's because this technology for broadband wireless networking (which uses the popular 802.11 standard) has reached a point where it's cheap and easy enough to deploy that it will soon be ubiquitous. Inexpensive broadband wireless networks that can keep you connected while you move about the office or home are getting better all the time. Far from what tradition might indicate, the wireless Internet isn't turning out to be one of those tech breakthroughs that arrives accompanied by a Microsoft-size marketing campaign and eight-foot-high displays in consumer-electronics stores. Instead, it's a grassroots trend that has moved from research labs, to techie circles, to hobbyists -- and that now, after five years -- is about to reach the general public. Anyone who didn't know broadband (meaning, fast) wireless Internet access is here -- and that it works -- soon will. If hype is possible in this tech-weary time, Wi-Fi is definitely generating buzz. "Wi-Fi is in its infancy," said Roland Van der Meer, a partner at venture-capital firm ComVentures. "But it is going to be huge." SMS interoperability, next-generation networks and Wi-Fi are 'in' - closed networks and protocols, Bluetooth and WAP are 'out,' according to the Yankee Group's assessment of activities at the latest wireless industry convention. Use of university to get school online is a short-term solution British Telecom is to re-enter the wireless market, less than six months after spinning off its mobile phone business. BT Group is pursuing a two-pronged strategy: re-establishing its brand in the mobile phone market, and setting up a public wireless broadband network. If it's safe enough for the U.S. Army, isn't 802.11b safe enough for corporate use? Will Wi-Fi, an upstart wireless technology, save the mobile Internet but destroy cell-phone carriers in the process? By @NY Staff Wi-Fi, or wireless technology based on the 802.11b networking standard, has the potential to change the face of computing over the next five years, according to technology analysts at investment firm Bear Stearns. Forget third generation cellphones, the solution is already available and far cheaper, says Cisco's country manager Tim Hemingway. Can we draw the wrong conclusions about 80211b security when a high-profile national laboratory bans 80211b networking in secure areas? You bet we can -- and so can USA Today. Fonterra is facing a backlash for using its muscle to try to swing fast Internet access for New Zealand's 13,000 dairy farmers. Fearless forecasts, Jan 7, IDGNet article Prediction 1: Wireless Ethernet, also known as IEEE 802.11b or Wi-Fi, will continue to cover ground like a stampeding brontosaurus in Jurassic Park III. Invercargill-based medical lab service provider Medlab Southland has chosen southern ISP SouthNet's new Wi-Fi broadband wireless internet service. 25-Sep-01: 25-Sep-01: NZ Herald article SouthNet wireless service gives Southland a boost In a deal worth "six figures", Southland ISP SouthNet and Invercargill investment company InvestSouth have undertaken to provide a wireless high-speed broadband service to Invercargill, rural Southland and the Queenstown-Arrowtown area. |
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