NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JEFF CARUSO ON HIGH SPEED LANS 09/07/04 Today's focus: Intel, Cisco making WLANs easier
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Network World Special Reports on IP Telephony Security, the State of Wireless LANs, trends in the networked world and more are currently available. Download any or all of our Special Reports at: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=79653 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Intel, Cisco making WLANs easier By Jeff Caruso Intel and Cisco - via its Linksys division - recently worked together to make it easier for users to set up, secure and operate their wireless LANs. Linksys is the small office/home office WLAN arm of Cisco, which Cisco acquired last year. It also announced its technology and marketing partnership with Intel last year. The result is called Intel Smart Wireless Solutions, and involves a new version of Intel's PROSet/Wireless software, Intel's Centrino mobile chips for notebook computers and certain Linksys wireless routers and access points. Cisco and Intel say the aim of all that is to make setting up a wireless network even easier than it is now, so that a novice could get up and running quickly. The new technology eliminates or simplifies some setup operations, like enabling security settings, typing passwords on the router and on a PC and setting up SSID names, the companies said. The new software includes a Wireless Network Configuration Wizard to simplify configuration to three steps. The wizard can simultaneously configure both a Linksys wireless router or access point and an Intel Centrino-based notebook. The wizard automatically pops up on a notebook when the software senses the presence of a new and unconfigured Linksys wireless router. Meanwhile, the Intel PROSet/Wireless software analyzes the WLAN's operations, identifies connectivity problems and suggests fixes. And the Security Assistant feature of the software scans the WLAN for required security settings, and displays only those input fields that a user needs to enter to connect to that network, based on the settings. The new features are expected to supported by Centrino by year-end, while the configuration wizard will be supported this fall on the Linksys Wireless-G VPN router and Wireless-G Router (others will follow). RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Opinion: Cisco/Linksys deal raises SMB market issues Network World, 03/31/03 http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0331tolly.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Jeff Caruso Jeff Caruso is managing editor of online news for Network World. He oversees daily online news posting and newsletter editing, and writes the NetFlash daily news summary, the High-Speed LANs newsletter and the Voices of Networking newsletter. 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