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... 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... 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... Nova Engineering enhances mobile mesh routersNova Engineering recently announced the addition of unidirectional link detection and avoidance to its NovaRoam mobile routers... 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... Motorola tapped for airport communications systemMotorola this week announced that it has landed a $6.9 million contract to deploy a Project 25 trunked radio system at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall airport... CML delivers Phase 2 system to Wisconsin PSAPCML Emergency Services said this week that it would deploy a system in Brown County, Wis., that would provide the county’s public-safety answering point with call-taking, ANI/ALI, mapping capabilities... |
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