[MLB-WIRELESS] RE: Cirond

[Clae]

hmm interesting

At 12:00 PM +1000 9/5/03, Dean Collins wrote:
>Cirond's
>goal is to make off-the-shelf Wi-Fi access points more reliable. The sales
>spiel is this: You can pay a lot for a wireless site survey that will tell
>you exactly where to place your access points (so you don't have blank spots
>or, their evil twin, radio channel conflicts). Or you can buy one of those
>new superhigh-capacity smart wireless access points, like Vivato's. Or, says
>Miller, you can save a bundle by installing, pretty much randomly, a bunch
>of $79 access points from Netgear and using Cirond's $500 software to manage
>the security and the channel conflicts.
>FAST FACTS[PARA]Cirond[PARA]http://www.cirond.com
>
>Cirond's client software is unique because it uses more Wi-Fi radio channels
>than a standard connection, and because each user's machine sends
>information to the server, telling it which access points it is able to
>communicate with and what interference it is picking up (possibly from
>non-Wi-Fi sources). That allows the server to automatically configure the
>radio channels and to route signals to the best access points -- this
>guarantees good coverage and distributes the load.
>
>Also, the software allows users to set up ad hoc wireless networks
>independent of an access point (just like Apple's (AAPL) Rendezvous), and to
>manage non-Cirond Wi-Fi connections better than Windows XP's own wireless
>manager. I verified this last fact using Cirond's software on my own
>machine.
>

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