My Worst WiFi Related Idea Ever If you are starting a new blog, launching a company or releasing a product make sure to pick a short and easy to remember domain name. Sometime around December 2007 I had this “great” idea that people were too confused about the 802.11 standard and the alphabet soup of [...]

Filed under: WLAN Standards

WiFi In Africa Africa is the second-largest continent, after Asia, in size and population; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by the Indian Ocean. But when it comes to Internet access access, Africa has very low Internet penetration at 10.9% and when Internet is [...]

Filed under: WLAN Deployment

WLANController.com Public Beta Ending Soon WLANController.com public beta will be ending soon. We are getting close to releasing GA version of application. If you haven’t signed up for any account go here to request one. If you haven’t already heard about it, WLAN Controller is a service that leverages your existing Windows based computers for [...]

Filed under: WLAN Design

Motorola WiNG 5 WLAN Solution Motorola will be announcing their new WiNG 5 WLAN solution at a media event on October 5th, 2010 in Boston. “WiNG 5 wireless LAN solutions place the brainpower of a wireless controller into every access point to better route data and deliver security, mobility services and quality of service. Many [...]

Filed under: WLAN Design, WLAN Events, WLAN/WiFi News

WIDS / WIPS Vendors – Where Are They Now? Listed in alphabetical order are the most well known WIDS / WIPS related companies, who acquired them and when. In most cases the companies continue to operate as independent business units. AirDefense – Founded in 2001 to provide a complete WLAN security platform to effectively monitor [...]

Filed under: WLAN Security, WLAN Tools

Wardriving ≠ WiFi Rogue Access Point Locating Searching for WiFi networks from a moving vehicle is known as wardriving. The information collected by wardriving efforts and/or crowd sourced using mobile phones such as the iPhone and Android phones can be uploaded to a database and used for WiFi positioning. Triangulaton/Trilateration to Improve Wardriving Maps During [...]

Filed under: WLAN Design, WLAN Security