A wide area network spans a large geographic area such as a city, state, or country. It can be private to connect parts of a business, or it can be public to connect smaller networks. The easiest way ...

Since 1995, CDPD has been one of the preeminent wireless wide area network (WWAN) technologies used for transmitting data to and from wireless devices in "the field." Today, CDPD has two main ...

Vancouver, British Columbia – Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR – TSX: SW) today announced the introduction of its ExpressCard product line, with the upcoming AirCard® 597E wireless wide area network card ...

If you take a look at your wireless router , you may see the abbreviations LAN and WAN, which are often next to some of the ports on the device. LAN stands for local area network, and WAN stands for ...

Orlando, Fla. – Not only did PDAs and wireless phones converge at Wireless 2002, but so did wireless 802.11b local area networks (LANs) and wireless wide area networks (WANs). At the show, multiple ...

Trillion and Southwest/West Central Service Cooperatives (SW/WC), today announced the completion of a new high-speed regional wide area network for 31 school districts in Southwestern Minnesota. The ...

Blue Vector Systems, a provider of rapidly deployable asset and supply chain tracking systems, today announced the general availability of its Mobile Edge Manager appliance. Incorporating wireless ...

With wireless connectivity now essential for enabling agile and secure connectivity of people, places and things, beyond the reach and limitations of traditional wired network connections, AT&T has ...

Wireless network technologies such as WiFi, ZigBee, and Bluetooth are fine for consumer applications of the Internet of Things (IoT), but many civic, industrial, and other IoT applications need to ...

Software-defined wide area networks offers ease of deployment, central manageability, reduced costs, and can improve connectivity to branch offices and the cloud. The most important change to ...

At Dartmouth College, access to multimedia information is thorough–and thoroughly transparent. Here's how the college set up a user-friendly wireless network. David Hakala is a veteran technology ...

Global corporate networks might be turning the planet into a very small business world, but if they’re going to live up to the demands of the next generation of Internet applications, they’re going to ...