Tim Higgins
The acquisition will make Belden the world’s largest unified wired and wireless solutions provider and will provide expanded market access for Trapeze Networks’ Smart Mobile solutions.
Trapeze is a privately held company based in Pleasanton, California, with 2007 revenues of $56 million. It sells its products into healthcare, education, manufacturing, retail, government and other enterprise verticals through OEMs and distribution channels.
D-Link today informed SmallNetBuilder that it has ended D-Link's "feedback" gathering exercise on 802.11b for its DIR-655 and DIR-825 draft 802.11n routers.
Qualcomm Atheros has joined the 802.11ac competition with five irons in the fire.
Atheros today announced what it claims is the most "highly-integrated, cost-effective 802.11g solution" for home gateways. The AR2417 is the newest member of the company's seventh-generation AR5007 family and is a low cost, single-chip solution for mini-PCI and cardbus based designs. The device is currently in volume production.
