WiFi

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  Chips coming by June will herald the next generation of Wi-Fi

  Qualcomm will start shipping sample chips for the next generation of Wi-Fi by June, helping device and network vendors develop products that might quadruple users’ speeds and lengthen battery life.

• This Wi-Fi alternative rides on LTE rails

  On Tuesday, the MulteFire Alliance announced MulteFire Release 1.0, which defines an LTE-like network that can run entirely on unlicensed spectrum like the frequencies Wi-Fi uses.

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  Plume's 'routerless' mesh network blankets your home in Wi-Fi with an army of tiny pods

  Plume wants to put a pod in every room of your house, with most router functions controlled by the cloud.

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  Hacker shows how easy it is to take over a city’s public Wi-Fi network

  An Israeli hacker found a vulnerability in routers that could have allowed him to take over the public Wi-Fi network of an entire city.

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  Your very own canary for the wireless coal mine: Cape Wireless’ new Wi-Fi monitor

  A new Wi-Fi monitoring product from Cape Wireless – formerly Asimmetric – lets IT experience the same networking conditions to which actual users are subject, the company announced today.

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  Connected Toys Can Breach Security

  When shopping for the latest gadgets for your children this Christmas, be aware of some of the risks involved when buying connected toys.

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  FAQ: What is 802.11ad wireless technology?

  Here are the broad strokes about 802.11ad, the wireless technology that’s just starting to hit the market.

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  Tech backgrounder: next-gen Wi-Fi

  Wi-Fi is getting faster -- again. The next chips will bebased on the coming 802.11ac standard, the successor to today’s 802.11n Wi-Fi. Products based on 802.11ac are expected to begin appearing late this year, delivering improved coverage and t...

Whitepapers about WiFi

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  Key Steps to Success fully Migrate to 802.11ac

  802.11ac is well on its way to becoming the standard for next-generation Wi-Fi. The gigabit speed, improved capacity and reliability that 802.11ac brings to wireless LANs (WLANs) are amplified as mobile users, devices and application usage continue to grow rapidly. In this whitepaper, we look at the five steps for successful migration to an 802.11ac WLAN.

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  What to expect from 802.11ac

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  Unify Your Network for a Mobile Enterprise