• 10 top reasons for integrating Wi-Fi radios in small cellular cells

  By Ajay Kumar Gupta, team lead at Wesley Clover Communications Solutions | 16 May, 2012 00:47

  With the growing demand for mobile data, cellular service operators are increasingly turning to small cells -- picocells, microcells, metrocells and femtocells -- to deal with the capacity crunch in dense urban areas and to add coverage in areas with low or zero cellular signal levels, such as indoors and in remote rural locations.

• Wi-Fi Alliance's Passpoint program on track for June certifications

  By Brad Reed | 09 May, 2012 07:47

  NEW ORLEANS -- The Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint Program, which aims to make Wi-Fi hotspots work more like cellular and LTE networks, is on track to start issuing certifications this summer.

• How to hack your own Wi-Fi network

  By Eric Geier | 23 April, 2012 21:32

  Attempting to "hack" into your own wireless network can help you spot potential Wi-Fi security vulnerabilities and figure out ways to protect against them.

• Xirrus unveils rugged Wi-Fi 'super access point'

  By John Cox | 19 April, 2012 05:28

  WLAN vendor Xirrus announced its first outdoor Wi-Fi products, a hardened access point and two sealed enclosures that can encase its indoor product line.

• At 100 years old, Fenway Park brims with new technology

  By Brad Reed | 13 April, 2012 05:34

  Fenway Park may be 100 years old this season but that doesn't mean the Boston Red Sox baseball stadium is stuck with antiquated technology.

• Troubleshoot sluggish or non-working Wi-Fi

  By Rick Broida | 29 July, 2010 08:22

  I'm a big fan of working at offsite locations--meaning my local Wi-Fi-equipped coffee shop. In fact, I'll often spend the afternoon hunkered down at Panera Bread, iced tea in one hand and a French Toast bagel in the other. (It's bad form to set up shop without buying something.)

• 5 Tips for Pain-Free Wireless Home Networking

  By Bill Snyder | 11 May, 2010 07:06

  Hair-pullingly bad experiences with wireless networking have led me to formulate Snyder's First Law of Home Networking: No matter who sells you the router, you'll have at least one excruciating session with tech support before you have an Internet connection.

• Wi-Fi still not universally free, consumers want it to be

  By Thomas Wailgum | 07 August, 2009 02:44

  About a year ago, CIO.com examined the Wi-Fi hotspot pricing strategies of retailers Starbucks, McDonald's, Borders and Panera Bread in "Free Wi-Fi: Should Retailers Offer It to Customers?"

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  Service Level Assurance - Wireless Fidelity Achieved

  Before Wi-Fi protocol analyzers, administrators and consultants alike were only able to troubleshoot by continually reviewing the network design of and device operation within the network infrastructure. With the introduction of Wi-Fi protocol analyzers, these professionals had the equivalent of RF goggles. They could now see what was happening and could reactively troubleshoot problems. Read on.