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Torwug members are invited to the CTCA's Nov 7th event: 'Trends in Wireless'
Held at Telus, featuring Microsoft, Terago, NEC and KPMG.
To register contact admin@ctca.ca
Details and registration can be found here:
http://www.ctca.ca/EventDetails.asp?R=5&EV=98
This event will replace the Torwug event in November at Oracle
Check out some new job postings on Torwug:
New:
Submit articles and whitepapers and we will give away a new Blackberry to the best article and best white paper or case study.
[ for submissions]
1) Articles:
—Municipal Wi-Fi vs. 3G
—Fat wireless LAN access points vs. thin wireless LAN access points
—Wireless LANs vs. wired LANs
2) Technology Shorts:
—CDMA vs. GSM
—Research in Motion (BlackBerry) vs. Palm
Online Webinars on security - to register and view them each week go to
Presentations from the Last event now
- thanks to the presenters and attendees for coming out.
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Municipal Wi-Fi vs. 3G
Municipal wireless projects have stumbled; 3G gets more funding
By John Cox, Network World, 10/26/07
Municipal Wi-Fi -- understood as an outdoor Wi-Fi blanket of wireless mesh nodes -- was touted, with new millennium fervor, as the means to bridge the digital divide, spur economic development miracles, and sidestep the telco/cable oligarchy that was choking money out of consumers for Internet access. And doing it all on the cheap with 802.11 wireless gear.
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Fat wireless LAN access points vs. thin wireless LAN access points
Start-ups pushed Cisco to take different point of view.
By John Cox, Network World, 10/26/07
This is one argument that was decisively ended. And then started up again.
Historically, wireless LANs (WLAN) relied on “fat” access points, which handled a wide array of tasks in software, each a separate IP address wired directly into Ethernet switches. All that changed around 2001 with the introduction of the WLAN switch (usually now called a controller) from start-ups such as Airespace, Aruba Wireless Networks and Trapeze Networks.
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Wireless LANs vs. wired LANs
Abandoning wired links proving not so crazy after all as 802.11n emerges.
By John Cox, Network World, 10/26/07
For years, this was one of those non-arguments. Who in their right mind would exchange a dedicated Gigabit or even 100Mbps wired Ethernet connection for a shared 54Mbps wireless one?
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Technology shorts:
CDMA vs. GSM
It's Sprint and Verizon on one side, AT&T and T-Mobile on the other
By John Cox, Network World, 10/26/07
The real problem with the cellular industry is all the blasted acronyms. Basically, you've got different ways of making a cellular voice or data call, with vendors lined up behind both. AT&T, and its Cingular acquisition, and T-Mobile are the major GSM carriers in the United States; with Sprint (which merged with Nextel), Verizon and Virgin Mobile as the chief CDMA carriers. Into the new millennium, their chief competitive tactic has been cutting prices.
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Research in Motion (BlackBerry) vs. Palm
Crackberry goes deeper, broader, while Palm plays Linux card
By John Cox, Network World, 10/26/07
Palm was the first to make a handheld computer practical, rather than a short-lived oddity. But Research in Motion, with its BlackBerry e-mail handheld, was the first to make it a necessity, as evidenced by the nickname given the device by its devoted users: "Crackberry."
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Business Cases including new additions are here;
1. How to get a ROI in wireless:
http://wireless.sys-con.com/read/41393.htm
2. http://www.torwug.org/CaseStudies/main.asp
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