Tim Higgins
The company plans to integrate Colubris’ product line, which includes draft 802.11n-based products, into its ProCurve Networking product portfolio.
Red Herring reports that Colubris had been looking to be acquired since Aruba Networks went public last year and had hired an "exit specialist" to look for potential buyers.
The acquisition is expected to close by the end of HP’s fiscal year 2008.
Cisco has unveiled a line of "app enabled" routers.
Atheros today announced that it is sampling a low-cost six port 10/100 Ethernet switch chip to key customers.
The company said the AR8216 will allow it to provide networking customers with "all of the major silicon required for complete wire-to-wireless router solutions". Atheros chose to produce a 10/100 switch instead of a gigabit Ethernet version because it believes that is where the volume will be in the near term.
Wi-Fi chipset maker Ralink Technology today announced what it claims is the industry's "longest range" draft-802.11n Wi-Fi chipset. The company said its RT2800 chipset "doubles the range of high-performance wireless systems" through the use of patented, low-noise circuitry. Ralink also said the chipset is designed so that changes to the current draft-802.11n standard can be done via firmware upgrade.
