Latest wireless products - Product Announcement

Communications News, June, 2001

Outdoor link

RUGGED WIRELESS SYSTEM is specifically designed for outdoor use. The BreezeNET DS.11 Outdoor is a high-speed, wireless building-to-building solution that is unaffected by adverse conditions, such as fog, rain, snow or wind. The system provides a link of up to 25 km distance in FCC and 10 km in ETSI at 11 Mbps. The product includes a DS.11 base unit, which acts as the central site of a point-to-multipoint network, and a DS.11 remote bridge, which connects to an individual remote LAN. Up to 128 remote bridges can be simultaneously connected to a single base unit, forming a single wireless LAN. The system is available with both frequency-hopping and direct-sequence technologies to combat noisy environments and to provide reliable communications. The unit is 802.11b-compliant, and includes built-in remote management and diagnostic capabilities.-BreezeCOM

www.breezecom.com

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Wireless imaging

UPDATE A COMPANY WEBSlTE with photographs and video clips while on the road. The RDC-i700 camera features an integrated browser, e-mail and a 3.5" color touch screen. The 3.34-megapixel, Internet-ready RDC-i700 imaging tool captures crisp images and video, sends and receives e-mail with attachments, sends images of documents directly to fax machines, surfs the Web, creates image-rich documents and HTML files, and allows FTP transfers of data and images directly from the camera. The camera can utilize a wireless Internet connection through a Type II PCMCIA slot solution or a serial port attached to a data-capable cell phone. The RDC-i700 features a virtual assistant that integrates Microsoft Word and Excel templates inside the camera to help generate data management, guided capture and text/HTML-based applications. It provides the ability to automatically populate predefined source files and then transfer the information directly to a PC.-Ricoh

www.ricohzone.com

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Powerful DSP

HIGH-PERFORMANCE DSP BOARD is specifically designed for 3G wireless and broadband telecommunications applications. The CHAMPAV digital signal processor supports expansion modules that allow expandable I/O modifications with industry standard modules, including solutions for T-1/E-1, ATM, DWDM fiber, frame relay OC3/OC8, 10/100Base-T and Gigabit Ethernet. Four AltiVec PowerPC 7400/7410 processors at 400-600 MHz provide more than 16 GFLOPS of available DSP performance. Seven onboard, intelligent DMA controllers maximize throughput and provide transcoding capability for conversion from network IP or ATM protocols. A reprogrammable interrupt multiplexer provides dynamic reallocation of critical system resources in high data-flow, high channel-density applications, such as VoIP, videoconferencing, E-911 or wireless networking.-Ixthos

www.ixthos.com

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Simple wireless connectivity

NEW WIRELESS ACCESS SOLUTION offers up to 11 Mbps of broadband capability without driver installation hassles. Based on Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11b technology, the 11 Mbps Ethernet Client Bridge (ECB) enables any ethernet-enabled device to connect to the public access wireless network-the mobile professional only has to connect the ECB to the ethernet port on his notebook PC boot the PC and launch his Internet browser software. No driver installation and no configuration is needed. Previously, a user would have had to buy, install and configure a Wi-Fi PC card. The unit offers fast, simple and secure wireless connectivity to enterprises and public venues, such as airports, hotels, convention centers and retail chains.-3Com

www.3com.com

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LAN to LAN connectivity

CONNECT REMOTE LAN SEGMENTS WIRELESSLY without need for a license. The Skyway. Net provides an 11 Mbps wireless data rate for outdoor links of up to 30 miles using the 2.4 to 2.4835 GHz frequencies. The compact, single integrated unit is ruggedized to withstand harsh environments. The Skyway Net unit can be mast-mounted up to 4,000' away from the LAN, is SNMP compliant and provides bridging, static IP routing and RIP. Available with both fiber and copper ethernet connections, the device allows all management functions, monitoring and software updates to be performed remotely. The system allows point-to-point and/or multipoint communications with up to 64 substations.-Solectek

www.solectek.com

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Access point with switch

HIGH-PERFORMANCE WIRELESS SOLUTION for connecting PCs to share high-speed DSL/cable modem Internet connections includes switching features and a hardware firewall to protect from outside intruders. The D1-713 wireless router and access point adheres to the IEEE 802.11b wireless and IEEE 802.3 ethernet specifications to allow users to share a single Internet connection. The DI-713 has an integrated wireless router that acts as a DHCP server, allowing shared Internet access for up to 252 clients. The built-in access point delivers a 11 Mbps wireless LAN connection using DSSS that is fully interoperable with all IEEE 802.11b-compliant devices. The DI-713 also has three 10/100 Mbps autosensing, full-duplex Fast Ethernet switch ports. The DI-713 firewall functions allow users to block and redirect ports, as well as mask local IP addresses--making targeting a specific machine more difficult for intruders. On a dynamic network connection, the D-Link access point will automatically obtain an IP address and forward additional IPs to multiple clients on the network. The bandwidth data-transmission rate can be set manually or for a dynamic autosensing configuration through a Web-based management interface.-D-Link