Wireless Switches

Your source for the latest wireless-switch news and resources.

Enterasys beefs up WLAN security
Oct. 24, 2005
Enterasys last week announced wireless LAN access points and a wireless switch for controlling and securing Wi-Fi network access.

Switch eases wireless LAN installation
Apr. 07, 2003
A beta-test version user of a wireless switch being announced this week by start-up Airespace says the device has simplified the work of running and securing his wireless LAN.

Nortel, Trapeze diverge on Smart Mobile recommendations
May. 30, 2007
Trapeze and one of its primary OEMs, Nortel, don't quite see eye to eye on their recommendations for customers' use of distributed wireless switching.

Wireless switches
Aug. 01, 2002
Tutorials, papers and other wireless switching resources.

WLAN products extend radio and traffic management
May. 08, 2006
Wireless vendors at last week's Interop show unveiled products that let network administrators better handle not only different types of wireless traffic but also different types of wireless connections.

Aruba rethinks WLAN setups
Aug. 30, 2004
Aruba Wireless Networks is unveiling products it says will turn enterprise wireless LAN costs inside out.

Aruba boosts wireless LAN management
Aug. 11, 2003
Aruba Wireless Networks this week plans to unveil software designed to give its switch customers more control over wireless LANs.

Cisco touts plan to tame WLANs
Jun. 02, 2003
Cisco this week will answer the challenge of a pack of aggressive wireless LAN switch vendors with a plan for managing WLANs across an enterprise network.

The security in Enterasys’ wireless switch system
Apr. 26, 2005
Enterasys this week introduced the RoamAbout wireless switch system - with access points, a wireless switch and management software. The system has several interesting capabilities.

Accton to launch WLAN mesh products
May. 30, 2005
Accton Technology last week introduced a line of wireless LAN mesh products in a move that could be a first step toward changing the way enterprise wirless LANs are deployed.

Technology Insider: Wireless
Mar. 14, 2005
Cisco's purchase of Airespace could boost the enterprise wireless LAN market, which has been struggling somewhat. Despite all the hype about WLAN switches, worldwide sales were less than $250 million in 2004, according ...

Wireless wake-up call
Mar. 14, 2005
Cisco/Airespace deal boosts thin access point/WLAN switch topology and makes enterprise WLANs more enticing.

Dartmouth retools for Wi-Fi video
Feb. 28, 2005
Dartmouth College has embraced Wi-Fi for data so enthusiastically that the school's IT chief is leaping into voice and video over Wi-Fi. A venture that calls for tripling the number of access points on campus, swapping ...

Wireless: NextHop to play WLAN leapfrog
Feb. 14, 2005
A little-known software vendor will take the first step this week toward helping equipment makers build what it calls the next generation of enterprise wireless LANs.

Is Juniper out shopping?
Jan. 31, 2005
Ever since Cisco acquired wireless LAN switch maker Airespace three weeks ago, speculation has swirled about how router rival Juniper might respond.

Chipset to cut chunk out of WLAN costs?
Jan. 24, 2005
Broadcom this week is expected to announce a multifunction chipset that could lead to a tenfold decrease in the cost of wireless Ethernet switching gear.

Symbol airs all-in-one wireless switch
Nov. 01, 2006
Symbol this week is expected to unveil its latest wireless switch, a box intended to handle a range of emerging wireless technologies for the enterprise.

WLAN vendors spar over implementation methods
May. 31, 2004
Wireless LAN equipment vendors drew sharp contrasts among themselves in the spirited debate of Network World's Wireless LAN Showdown last week.

Cisco's WLAN plan has landed
May. 10, 2004
Cisco's latest announcement fleshes out the company's Structured Wireless Aware Network strategy, announced nearly a year ago.

Enterprise WLANs: The kinder, gentler shakeout
Apr. 26, 2004
As wireless LAN start-up after WLAN start-up emerged to take on the enterprise over the past 18 months, observers realized that a few years down the line, they wouldn't all be around. There was simply a limit to the ...

AirFlow backs out of WLAN switches
Apr. 19, 2004
AirFlow Networks' decision last week to scrap its wireless LAN switch might be the first tremor in an expected shakeout of this market.

Putting the 'enterprise' into wireless LANs
Apr. 12, 2004
As wireless LANs have rocketed into the consciousness of corporate managers in the past year or so, existing and prospective vendors in that space have been quick to point out how not to build a WLAN. Stay away, they ...

WLAN vendors take stand in Virtual Showdown
Apr. 12, 2004
The Network World Virtual Showdown on WLAN switches that brought six vendors together in a weeklong debate resulted in a flood of information, which highlights product differences in key areas such as security, network ...

Wireless
Feb. 23, 2004
WIRELESS: The best switches, access points, WLAN analyzers, applications in 2003.

Calling vendors to a Virtual Showdown
Feb. 16, 2004
We challenge Airespace, Aruba, Cisco, Extreme, Symbol and Trapeze to participate in a weeklong Virtual Showdown on wireless switches.