By Tony Hallett
Published: 16 June 2000 17:28 GMT
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.
Ethernet standards (IEEE 802.3), Frame Relay, ADSL, ISDN, ATM, OC3, OC12). Wireless standards IEEE 802.11A/B/G standards and wireless encryption ...
High speed serial interfaces could include PCI-Express, SPI4.2, 10GBase-KX4(XAUI), Interlaken, RapidIO. Modelsim [essential] Experience of creating ...
Our helpdesk provides remote server, desktop and handheld support. Setup and configure Windows based PCs, thin clients and laptops? Troubleshooting ...
Agenda Setters 2009
Welcome to the ninth annual Agenda Setters poll – silicon.com's list of the top 50 most influential individuals in the technology and IT industries, from techies and CIOs to entrepreneurs and business leaders. Find out more in our latest special report.
Stories from the web...
Copyright © 2008 CBS Interactive Limited. All rights reserved. Top of page
Digg
Slashdot
Del.icio.us
Stumble
Reddit
RSS Feeds
Peter Cochrane Peter Cochrane's Blog: How the telcos could save themselves Doomed network operators could thrive with a bit of innovation
Peter Cochrane Peter Cochrane's Blog: Facebook saves teen from prison Another unexpected impact of social networking