John Cox

GreenPeak's line of wireless sensors need no battery to keep them going. How going green can also reduce operational complexity

Zenprise, Boxtone and Azaleos offer software aimed at assisting IT administrators with one of their biggest emerging challenges: following corporate data as it roams on handheld devices

Wireless networks might be mainstream across enterprise networks, but that doesn't mean they're no-brainers. Here, we've raised and attempted to answer some of the thornier questions you might still be dealing with.

Xirrus is the latest of the wireless LAN vendors to announce an access point that supports the most recent draft of the IEEE 802.11n high-throughput standard.

Three wireless LAN vendors unveiled at Interop Las Vegas last month enterprise access points that will offer 100Mbps to 200Mbps throughput, shared among the Wi-Fi clients that connect to it.

Wireless test vendor VeriWave has released a "master test plan" to guide enterprises in testing wireless LAN gear for performance, behaviors and characteristics.

Verizon Wireless is hip deep in a project to replace thousands of call center PCs with Sun Microsystems' thin client terminals. And the carrier is already counting up the savings. With about 5,000 Sun Ray terminals installed at three Western call centers, and a fourth in progress, Verizon has seen a 60 percent to 70 percent drop in desktop problems and a 30 percent decline in electrical use at each center.

MontaVista has released a smaller version of its embedded Linux platform and application developer kit to support real-time embedded devices and programs.