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  • 4G czar at Sprint backs WiMax 'singularly'

    Don't ask Matt Carter, president of 4G at Sprint Nextel, about LTE, a competing wireless technology. He wants to focus on Sprint's use of WiMax for 4G wireless networks.

  • St Kent's takes wise option

    St Kentigern College in Auckland went wireless in May 2001 with the installation of 31 Cisco Aironet access points.

  • Transcending the LAN

    Wireless networking based on the 802.11 standard — or Wi-Fi as its proponents prefer to call it — is a dark horse technology that’s becoming increasingly common thanks to unorthodox usage and its innate flexibility.

  • Wireless terminology

    If you’ve wondered what the “802” and the numbers following after the dot mean, you’re not alone. The first part, 802, refers to the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) family of standards for LANs and MANs.

  • Wireless still has a few hurdles to jump

    If memory serves, 1987 was known as the Year of the LAN. That was the year that local area network technology was supposed to have become mainstream after mass adoption of PCs.

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