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A Brief Guide to Securing Wireless Networks: Closing the Back Door in APA Style

whitepaper This paper aims to give a brief history of wireless security, educate the WLAN administrator about the dangerous vulnerabilities of wireless networking. Wireless computer networks (WLANs) are being used in greater numbers now than ever before.

Tags: wireless lan, numbers, wireless security, wired

[16 May 2008]

'Hyperconnected' world grabs mobile over wallet

News Through the survey, Nortel - the US' biggest maker of telephone gear - was looking to find out how many workers around the world can be defined as "hyperconnected", or as those who have fully embraced multiple devices like mobile phones and...

Tags: laptop, mobile

[14 May 2008]

Aviva signs £300m comms deal

News The insurance company, which was formed from Norwich Union and GNU (itself the union of Commercial Union and General Accident) in 2002, will be using C&W for 72 separate services including telephony, data and IPVPN and MPLS wide area networking to...

Tags: voip, c&w, aviva

[13 May 2008]

Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network

News Networking giant Nortel's 40/100G Adaptive Optics Engine was tested on a 217-mile length of Virgin's optical network between London and Manchester - and successfully carried 40G traffic, according to the two companies.

Tags: fibre, nortel, bandwidth, broadband

[09 May 2008]

Glasgow NHS keeps tabs on equipment with RFID

News NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has implemented a wireless networking project in the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) that involves tracking medical equipment with RFID tags.silicon.com Public Sector The wireless network was installed in May 2007 by...

Tags: wifi, rfid, nhs

[28 Apr 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News Those not using IT cite a lack of training and technical support as major barriers - requesting more IT in medical education, more training and better electronic networking among healthcare practitioners wanting to share clinical information.

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

Harrods makes a tech-savvy exhibition of itself

News Harrods is looking at using other technology such as Bluetooth broadcasting, RSS and Twitter feeds, social networking and SMS alerts depending on the campaign and target audience. Wireless from A-Z… Harrods is using cutting-edge mobile technology...

Tags: barcode, camera, qr, mobile

[25 Apr 2008]

Cool tech gets down with the kids

News At Gartner's co-located mobile & wireless and enterprise & networking conferences in London, the analyst house pointed to Apple as an example of a business whose success can be attributed to how firmly it keeps its finger on the pulse of cutting...

Tags: ipod, apple, virtual worlds

[23 Apr 2008]

Mobile market ripe for femtocell loving

News This is due to three main factors: global growth in the number of mobile subscribers - predicted to hit 4.4 billion in three years' time; the proliferation of broadband - itself driven by the popularity of apps such as social networking, online...

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, femtocell

[23 Apr 2008]

The Role of RADIUS/AAA in GSM Wireless Data Networks GPRS, EDGE, UMTS

whitepaper GSM wireless operators worldwide are racing to deploy packet data networking capabilities on top of their existing circuit switched cellular networks. It will then move to a discussion of Funk SoftwareÂ’s Steel-Belted Radius, the first deployed AAA...

Tags: gsm

[14 Apr 2008]

Next generation e-business solutions

whitepaper With IBM Secure Wireless Networking Solutions for Cisco Systems, businesses can help translate technology investments into real business benefits. See how IBM can give you a competitive edge with highly secure wireless infrastructures, improved...

Tags: windows ce, productivity, employees, cisco systems

[11 Apr 2008]

Next generation e-business solutions

whitepaper With IBM Secure Wireless Networking Solutions for Cisco Systems, businesses can help translate technology investments into real business benefits. See how IBM can give you a competitive edge with highly secure wireless infrastructures, improved...

Tags: windows ce, productivity, networking, investments

[11 Apr 2008]

The state of security in carrier service delivery: 2006 survey results

whitepaper Security simply has not been built into IP or wireless communications protocols, and as these new services gain increased adoption, they will become an increasingly attractive target for the cyber-crime organizations currently targeting the data...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, carrier, crime, delivery

[11 Apr 2008]

SkyPilot Networks Chooses Fujitsu System-on-Chip for New Generation WiMAX Mesh Networking Solution

whitepaper SkyPilot selected the Fujitsu WiMAX System-on-Chip (SoC) for a new generation of systems that will bring sophisticated mesh networking to WiMAX deployments. As the first company to announce plans to add mesh networking to WiMAX infrastructures...

Tags: deployments, networking, wimax, mesh

[11 Apr 2008]

Cost-Effective Connectivity: Optical Wireless Networking Solutions

whitepaper SharffWeisberg quickly and cost-effectively connected buildings with a new license-free technology known as optical wireless. To learn how, read this case study.

Tags: network design, optical, connected, license

[10 Apr 2008]

WiMax Is Coming, and It's Going to Be Big

whitepaper WiMax, an evolving standard for point-to-multipoint wireless networking, is poised to do for the last mile of broadband what Wi-Fi has done for the last 100 feet of networking. Unlike other wireless technology standards, WiMax (Worldwide...

Tags: wi-fi (802.11), wi fi, networking, mile

[10 Apr 2008]

Detailed OFDM Modeling in Network Simulation of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

whitepaper It then proposes an approach to simulate details of wireless propagation and radio characteristics in networking studies while still maintaining a reasonable simulation execution time. This paper first shows that physical layer variables including...

Tags: network design, layer, models, execution

[10 Apr 2008]

Choose Your Wireless: Bluetooth, 802.11b, 802.11a, or 802.11g

whitepaper Wireless networking may save enterprises from the physical hassle of connecting computer hardware, but they still have to face the virtual tangle of standards, as well as all of the installation and security considerations.

Tags: wireless lan, networking, physical, readers

[10 Apr 2008]

VGrid: Vehicular AdHoc Networking and Computing Grid for Intelligent Traffic Control

whitepaper This paper proposes VGrid: an ad hoc networking and computational grid, which can be formed by leveraging inter-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside wireless communications. Rather than just using ad-hoc networks for exchanging data between vehicles...

Tags: high performance computing, traffic, vehicle, ad hoc

[10 Apr 2008]

Procurve Networking by HP: IP Telephony Solution White Paper

whitepaper The ProCurve Networking by HP family of products, services and solutions - including Ethernet switches, routing switches, wireless solutions and network management applications - allows customers to build IP telephony solutions that meet current...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, switches, networking, telephony

[10 Apr 2008]

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