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NetFlash: New protocol helps boost Wi-Fi sales

Opinion
Aug 14, 20032 mins
Networking

The money in wireless LANs is coming from a relatively new source: 802.11g. What’s especially interesting about the fact that 24% of revenue in the second quarter came from equipment supporting that standard is that 802.11g wasn’t a standard yet. Now that it has been standardized, it’s bound to take over the whole market. New protocol helps boost Wi-Fi sales http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0813newproto.html?net

The money in wireless LANs is coming from a relatively new source: 802.11g. What’s especially interesting about the fact that 24% of revenue in the second quarter came from equipment supporting that standard is that 802.11g wasn’t a standard yet. Now that it has been standardized, it’s bound to take over the whole market.

New protocol helps boost Wi-Fi sales

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0813newproto.html?net

SCO terminates IBM Sequent license

The SCO Group has fired another volley in its battle against IBM (and anyone else who uses the Linux operating system). This time, SCO is going after code IBM acquired along with Sequent Computer; SCO accuses IBM of promptly adding Sequent’s Unix code into the Linux kernel after the acquisition.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0813scoterm.html?net

At a Boston hospital, lessons learned from Slammer

While organizations around the world this week scrambled to disinfect and patch systems that had been hit by the dangerous new W32.Blaster Internet worm, John Halamka could sit back and relax.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0814atabos.html?net

Aspelle closing its doors

Aspelle, one of the Secure Sockets Layer remote access start-ups in a crowded field, will close its doors next week after failing to get a second round of funding.