Cisco Acquires Linksys for $500M by Glenn Fleishman

This acquisition is a clear win for Cisco, which can sell up and down the horizontal chain to consumers, small businesses, and their traditional enterprise market.

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802.11g's "Extreme" Emergence by Adam Engst and Glenn Fleishman

802.11g winked at us from the horizon. That standard runs, like 802.11a, at 54 Mbps but with full backward compatibility with 802.11b.

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Customer-owned Networks by Clay Shirky

To understand what's going to happen to the telephone companies this year thanks to WiFi (otherwise known as 802.11b) and Voice over IP (VoIP) you only need to know one story: ZapMail.

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Don't Harsh My Vibe by Kelly Abbott

An Open Letter to Cable Providers. Feel free to forward to all your Community Wireless friends.

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Why Airshare.org by Kelly Abbott

With so many community wireless sites and so many news sites out there, why do we need another?

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