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WIRELESS NETWORKING NEWS

HP's Meg Whitman in China to reaffirm PC commitment

May 14, 2012 | SOPHIE CURTIS

HP chief executive Meg Whitman has reaffirmed the company’s commitment to its PC business, and has promised that HP’s newly created Printers and Personal Systems (PPS) division will get “more than its fair share” of R&D investment in the coming years.

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10 reasons your Wi-Fi speed stinks (and what you can do about it)

May 14, 2012 | SANDRO VILLINGER

The first 801.11ac chipsets are coming soon, but 802.11n is likely to stick around for many years to come -- both in the business world and our homes. Unfortunately, the 300Mbps (megabits per second) that the n-standard promises rarely delivers anything even close and proves to be a massive bottleneck in the days of 50/100Mbps (or more?) broadband connections, 1080p video streaming, massive backups and so forth. On the business side of things, even menial tasks such as remote desktop or real-time collaboration suffer from a poor Wi-Fi-connection.

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Going Wireless in the Data Center

May 8, 2012 | JOHANNA AMBROSIO

Bouncing information around a data center, via 60GHz Wi-Fi, can speed things up by 30% compared to using traditional cables, a group of researchers found. The technique is still being perfected, but it could yield an interesting approach for enterprises in the not-too-distant future.

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WIRELESS NETWORKING WHITE PAPERS

Greenland Group Networks 450m High Nanjing Zifeng Plaza

Commscope

To serve businesses in the building, Greenland Group specified 11,000 information outlets to deliver data transmission speeds up to 1Gb/s. It also wanted to ensure that every outlet would offer end-to-end performance that fully met specifications of the Category 6/Class E cabling standard.

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Enabling Cost Reductions through Convergence

Alcatel Lucent

Convergence is a necessary step to achieve significant cost savings in an enterprise network. The white paper describes the key benefits of convergence and introduces solutions to help you realize these benefits.

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