History of Wireless LAN Vendors + WLAN Vendor Tiers Mashup I took Keith Parsons updated WLAN Vendor Tiers and mashed it up with some of the History of Wireless LAN Vendors posts I have done. I’m missing many vendors and hope to get to all of them in 2012. Tier One Cisco (Aironet, Airespace, Cognio) [...]
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History of Wireless LAN Vendors – Ubiquiti Networks On October 14, 2011, Ubiquiti went public and as of January 13, 2012, UBNT’s market cap is over $2 BILLION and looks like it is trending up. Per a Forbes.com article “in the 12 months ended Sept. 30, 2011, Ubiquiti netted $64 million on $243 million in [...]
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Turning off Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) in Verizon FiOS MI424WR Wireless Routers TL;DR – Verizon FiOS MI424WR Rev. E wireless router has the WPS button but does not have WPS support as of firmware release 20.19.7. If you have been tracking the WiFi Protected Setup security issue and have a Verizon FiOS Wireless Router confirming [...]
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John Lennon’s Imagine – WiFi Version A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. – John Lennon Imagine there’s no interference Clients with neg 60 RSSI No wireless baby cameras No end users with MiFi Imagine all the mobile devices, supporting 11a Imagine there’s no controllers It [...]
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WLANBook.com Blog Stats for 2011 Everyone loves stats so I figure I would post some stats for WLANBook.com. The blog has been around since 2007 and I have tracked stats for the blog since the beginning using Google Analytics and hosting provider server stats. I started with just a few hundred visits per month in [...]
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Why Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) Was Created Wi-Fi Alliance’s Wi-Fi Protected Setup specification describes how a wireless device can be automatically configured with wireless network security settings. The goal was to make it easier for non techies to configure devices to securely connect to wireless routers. For hardware sellers and manufacturers the specification is suppose [...]
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History of Wireless LAN Vendors – Ruckus Wireless Ruckus Wireless started out as chip vendor named Video54 Technologies, Inc. in June 2004 and in 2005 launched BeamFlex, its version of MIMO technology. BeamFlex was used by NetGear in its RangMax product line. In September 2005 Video54 rebranded itself as Ruckus Wireless. 2005 – MediaFlex Product [...]
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History of Wireless LAN Vendors – Xirrus The Xirrus solution combines multi radios into a single access point called “Arrays” with directional antennas to increase coverage and capacity with less cabling and hardware. History of Xirrus Arrays 2005 – XS Series Xirrus was in “stealth mode” until about March 2005 when they announced their “Wireless [...]
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Google WiFi Opt Out SSID _nomap Google and several other companies maintain WiFi positioning databases. Google now has an opt out method for users that don’t want their WiFi Mac address in their database. I think this is a good idea but don’t think the typical user will know how to change their SSID. For [...]
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History of Wireless LAN Vendors – Symbol Technologies Symbol Technologies started out as a handheld bar-code laser scanner company and entered the Wireless LAN market in 1990 with a proprietary WLAN product called Spectrum One and later 2.4 Ghz product line called Spectrum24. Info from Symbol’s 1996 website is below. Spectrum One Spread spectrum, one [...]
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