Milwaukee chooses Midwest Fiber for Wi-Fi dealBy: By Donny Jackson Milwaukee Common Council members voted 14-1 this week to approve a $20 million deal with Midwest Fiber Networks to build and maintain a citywide, high-speed, wireless mesh network targeted toward the city’s consumers and enterprises, according to media reports... IEEE supports EWC’s 802.11n proposalAs expected, an IEEE task force yesterday unanimously voted in favor of the 802.11n draft standard offered last week by a joint-proposal team led by the Enhanced Wireless Consortium... Colorado emergency call center selects NICE communications recorderAdams County Communications, based in Commerce City, Colo., will deploy a NICE Systems solution to record its emergency communications... 802.11n consensus sets stage for IEEE consideration next weekBy: By Donny Jackson A joint proposal team developing proposals for the next-generation Wi-Fi standard—802.11n—yesterday voted unanimously to adopt the specification presented by the Enhanced Wireless Consortium, which is expected to be submitted to the IEEE next week... Motorola’s BPL solution receives UL approvalBy: By Donny Jackson Motorola’s Powerline LV modem this week received approval from Underwriters Laboratories (UL), meaning the vendor giant can begin shipping its broadband over power line (BPL) solution in the next month, company officials said... Panel: SCADA systems at risk for intrusion attackBy: By Glenn Bischoff ORLANDO—A panel of public utility executives speaking at the Homeland Security for Networked Industries conference here agreed that remote monitoring and control systems, particularly SCADA systems, are vulnerable to intrusion attacks and should be protected more vigilantly... New Orleans Wi-Fi network proves its worthBy: By Glenn Bischoff ORLANDO—The City of New Orleans plans to expand its Wi-Fi network after seeing how well it performed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, said Chris Drake, operations manager for the city’s Emergency Operations Center... Speaker: Choose security battles wiselyBy: By Glenn Bischoff The hacker community is populated with “too many smart people,” who are becoming more clever and sophisticated in their tactics, according to Eric Winsborrow, vice president of product marketing for network security solutions vendor McAfee... HP ships notebook with Verizon Wireless EV-DO accessHP yesterday announced it is shipping a mobile broadband notebook that includes integrated access via Wi-Fi or Verizon Wireless’ EV-DO network without the purchase of additional cards... Enhanced video surveillance systemMotorola announced that users of its Intelligent Video Surveillance and Control (iVSC) solution now are able to transmit video over wireless broadband networks via video applications developed by NICE Systems... RFID badge for lead retrievalLead-retrieval vendor Dietze Enterprises introduced the RFBadge, which is designed to let tradeshow exhibitors capture vital information from attendee badges without using cumbersome standard readers... Agency joins Tucson mobile wireless data networkThe city of Tucson has purchased an upgradeable IP Series 32 private wireless data system from IPMobileNet... Apptis, SmartLink land public-safety contractApptis and SmartLink Radio Networks recently announced a $3 million contract from Solano County, Calif., to design and deploy an interoperable radio system... TXU, Current team to create BPL “smart grid”By: By Donny Jackson TXU Electric Delivery and broadband-over-powerline (BPL) vendor Current Communications today announced an agreement to transform TXU Electric Delivery’s network into a broadband-enabled “smart grid” designed to provide customers more reliable electricity and a last-mile broadband alternative... Symbol, Vue to develop item-level RFID solutionsBy: By Glenn Bischoff Symbol Technologies and Vue Technologies announced this week that the two companies would jointly develop integrated item-level radio frequency identification solutions for both the retailing and manufacturing sectors... |
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