wireless standards
Establishing Wireless Robust Security Networks: A Guide to IEEE 802.11i
White Paper This guide seeks to assist organizations in better understanding the most commonly used family of standards for WLANs - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 - focusing on the security... [01 Oct 2008]
IBM warns ISO to shape up
News IBM has issued a warning to international standards body ISO in the wake of its approval of Microsoft's OOXML. Unless the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and other bodies are open and accountable,... [24 Sep 2008]
Scottish gov't enlists data privacy experts
News Scottish finance secretary John Swinney said in the statement: "While I am confident that public bodies are already working to high standards of IT security, we recognise the need to ensure public confidence in the... [11 Sep 2008]
Taiwan Education Network Center Secures the Wireless Networks of 240 Schools With Juniper Networks Secure Access 6000 Appliances
The Taoyuan County Education Network Center (TCENC) is responsible for providing data center services and Internet connectivity for municipal education institutions and plays a critical role in ensuring that educational... [11 Sep 2008]
Taiwan Education Network Center Secures the Wireless Networks of 240 Schools With Juniper Networks Secure Access 6000 Appliances
White Paper The Taoyuan County Education Network Center (TCENC) is responsible for providing data center services and Internet connectivity for municipal education institutions and plays a critical role in ensuring that educational... [11 Sep 2008]
Rabbit Races Across Wi-Fi Ethernet Bridge
White Paper Other standards describe a faster implementation (54 Msps) in the 2.4 GHz (802.11g) and a 54 Msps implementation in the 5.6 GHz band. Wi-Fi, a popular name for 802.11b, is one of the wireless schemes... [11 Sep 2008]
Power Over Ethernet on Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches
White Paper This paper describes the Power over Ethernet (PoE) capabilities for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches for both Cisco prestandard Inline Power as well as the standards-based IEEE 802.3af inline-power solutions. [11 Sep 2008]
Inbox: iPhone ad, red boxes, wi-fi piggybacking, sci-fi thinking
Comment The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad for the iPhone that promised users access to "all parts of the internet" on their Apple device. Perhaps, just with a little thought and input from vendors and... [04 Sep 2008]
WLAN (IEEE 802.11B) and WMAN (802.16A) Broadband Wireless Access: When Opportunities Drive Solutions
White Paper Although the standards were intended for indoor wireless local area networks (WLAN), it took very little time to see WLAN-based products in point-to-point and point-to-multipoint outdoor solutions. In... [02 Sep 2008]
IEEE 802.11g: The New Mainstream Wireless LAN Standard
White Paper The purpose of this white paper is to: Provide an explanation of existing WLAN standards, Describe 802.11g specification requirements, Set expectations for 802.11g performance, Discuss 54g the high performance... [02 Sep 2008]
UK at risk from repeat of US hack attack?
News Retailers handling up to six million Visa transactions in the UK are not subject to an independent audit to check they are compliant with PCI DSS security standards that can block such hacks. UK shoppers credit card... [06 Aug 2008]
ZigBee Gateways
White Paper IEEE 1451 consists of the family standards for a networked smart transducer interface. ZigBee is a published specification set of high level communication protocols designed to use small low power digital radios based on... [04 Aug 2008]
MSDN Webcast: Extending .NET Compact Framework and Visual Studio.NET Capabilities for Line of Business Mobile Enterprise Applications (Level 200)
White Paper This extended functionality allows to utilize open standards-based XML Web Services to attain seamless online/offline operation in wireless environments as well as enterprise-initiated action on mobile... [04 Aug 2008]
Scalable Video Compression for Wireless Systems
White Paper The MPEG-2 and H.263 video coding standards are used as a reference but the results are also applicable to the MPEG-4 and H.26L systems with minor modifications. Scalability became an important functionality of video... [04 Aug 2008]
Filling the Gaps in Order to Offer QoS Guarantees in IEEE 802.11 WLANs
White Paper Current IEEE 802.11 standards are not capable of offering Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees to WLAN users. It still needs connection admission control techniques to avoid saturating the wireless medium... [04 Aug 2008]
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