Cisco and Xircom join forces for WLAN network adapters

Cisco and Xircom have teamed up to offer mobile wireless LAN (WLAN) network adapters.

With corporations increasingly looking at wirefree local area networking, the two companies will develop, market and sell adapters based on the high-speed IEEE 802.11b Wireless Ethernet standard.

Users will be able to connect handheld devices and laptops to LANs via USB, Mini PCI and PC Card adapters.

The relationship between the two vendors will initially bear fruit in the shape of Xircom's Springboard WLAN module - incorporating Cisco's Aironet technology - for the recently released Visor Palm-clone from Handspring.