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Article: WLAN vendors convene at Interop; Thin access points, mesh routers and new switches take center stage.(Wireless LANs)
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- Network World
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- April 25, 2005
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Byline: JOHN COX
Wireless LAN vendors will be out in force at the NetWorld+Interop show in Las Vegas next week with new or improved products.
Israeli WLAN start-up Extricom will use the show to launch thin access points and a central switch that boast patent-pending technology that detects and in effect sidesteps radio interference. As a result, executives say, access points can be packed much closer together than they can with conventional WLANs, boosting overall throughput and network reliability.
Extricom achieves this in part by using an approach similar to that adopted by ill-fated start-up AirFlow (see story at www.nwfusion.com, ...