For the uninitiated, the bandwidth gap between wireless and wired connections can appear tremendous. Today's wireless has roughly 500 times less bandwidth than standard local area networks, according ...

ISP bandwidth and wireless router speed don't directly change one another, but they both play a role in getting the fastest possible connection to your Internet-ready devices. The connection speed you ...

AT&T has begun throttling bandwidth speeds for its “unlimited” wireless data customers who gobble excessive amounts of data on their smartphones–just as it promised it would back in June. Now that the ...

Wireless is a top priority among private four-year college IT leaders, according to a recent survey by Xwires Communications, formerly X-Wires Broadband, a newly acquired division of satellite cable ...

As consumers hunger for richer media content and service providers eye bigger revenue streams from such demand, any intervening technology hang-up takes on the proportions of a crisis. A typical ...

1. Need latency tolerance. Today's wired Ethernet connections are full duplex. This means that each end device can both transmit and receive at the same time. On the other hand, wireless technologies ...

Wireless bandwidth is like land in Manhattan — it’s extremely valuable because they’re not making more of it. But we sure are using more of it. The wireless-industry association CTIA reported in ...

Enterprises are hungry for wireless bandwidth, and upgrading access points to 802.11ac is not enough. According to a forecast recently released by Dell’Oro Group, the overall Wireless LAN market will ...

COMMENTARY--"Today in America there is a spot market for wireline bandwidth," the Federal Communications Commission's Chairman William E. Kennard noted one year ago, "so why can't we do this for ...

Wireless networking is ubiquitous: you can jump on a Wi-Fi network just about anywhere in the world, it seems. Yet despite the prevalence of the technology, little exists in the way of standards and ...

Working in his research lab, Andrea Alù is focused on a single objective: doubling wireless bandwidth. “The final goal is to realize a compact device that can enable full-duplex for wireless ...

Ultra-high bandwidth services are coming to a server closet and wireless tower near you. Fiber-optic connections are being run to more buildings and customer sites, a phenomenon known as ...