The wide-area folks are fighting over hotspots that have been deployed, as well as future hotspots.
However, not just any company can successfully build and deliver a high-quality wide-area wireless product.
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At the top level you have the wide-area networking market, you have the local-area networking market.
This exacerbates the danger from the wide-area effect of the submunitions the rockets contain.
The first product in this family, Lattus X, is a wide-area storage solution with NAS access.
Now, such teams are also called out for hazardous material accidents, weapons of mass destruction and wide-area searches.
This technology is also being readied for metropolitan- and wide-area networks, breaking away from Ethernet's roots in the LAN.
But Mr Pfeiffer doubts whether Dell's self-service approach can ever completely satisfy customers wrestling with wide-area networks and the Internet.
Were Dash's cellular network support faster, one opportunity would be leveraging its WiFi and wide-area connectivity to create an in-vehicle hotspot.
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Quantum introduced its Lattus family of wide-area storage solutions for big data.
The tablets were too bulky, too slow, too expensive, and wireless connectivity had not yet advanced to broadband Wi-Fi and wide-area network services.
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The technology is transparent, likely with low running costs and wide-area effectiveness, once baseline infrastructure is in place across devices, communications, and trained people.
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While these systems offer a number of advantages for time-critical two-way communications, they are expensive and limited if you need wide-area coverage, especially across a country or continent.
In the end, I believe that wide-area wireless networks will take over the hotspot marketplace and stitch together combination offerings that include both wide-area and local-area high-speed data access.
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According to the DISA briefing, no unit or command will be allowed to connect a local- or wide-area network to NIPRNET until the network goes through a formal connection approval process.
Now that wide-area wireless network operators recognize Wi-Fi hotspots as complementary to their advanced packet-data networks, they will end up owning or leasing most of today's hotspots and will build out coverage.
Qualcomm, Intel and most of the companies involved in mobile computing and wireless all agree on one thing: Embedded wide-area broadband is the way to go for notebooks, UMDs and consumer appliances.
To provide these notifications in real time, the wireless wide-area network modules from Novatel Wireless securely connect through HSDPA and EV-DO networks to the Microsoft Exchange Server, storing user information and filter policies.
According to numbers I am hearing, notebook companies really like selling notebooks with wide-area broadband wireless, because the amount of money they make from the activation is more than they make for selling five notebooks.
Running on these mobiles, and also on home and wide-area networks will be increasingly intelligent software, able to learn behaviour, predict needs and integrate with a growing number of databases, such as transport updates from major providers.
Because we have the screens, processing power, and battery life to make tablets much more capable than was possible only a few short years ago, and because today these tablets will support wireless broadband as well as local and wide-area connectivity.
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Dick Lynch, chief technology officer of Verizon Wireless, explains that no wide-area wireless network can afford to build out wide-area data capacity to handle bursts of demand for wireless data that change from airport gate to gate every 30 minutes or so.
It's a tall order, but Air Force officials hope that an on-board wide-area airborne surveillance system (WAAS), which uses 96 cameras to generate nearly 275TB of data every hour, and a supercomputer hosting the equivalent of 2, 000 single-core servers will fit the bill.
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Israel has an important stake not only in those programs, but in certain U.S. programs, like the one that would create a sea-based, wide-area defense system that would allow the United States, by stationing a single naval cruiser in the Eastern Mediterranean in a crisis, to add a valuable layer to Israel's missile defenses.
Today, General Lloyd Austin became the first African-American to lead the U.S. Central Command, which has a wide-ranging area of responsibility for 20 countries in the Middle East and southwest Asia.
The private schools that are dominant in football year after year are those with the money, alumni and tradition to aspire to becoming a quasi-national program, with appearances on ESPN helping to attract players from a wide-ranging area.
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The Thames Gateway is a 40-mile-wide area from east and south-east London to Kent and Essex.
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At the end was a wide-open grassy area that ended at a cliff.
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