LAN vendors boost WiFi offerings

Two wireless LAN vendors are adding wired connectivity to their WiFi offerings, to create managed, cloud-based networking services for a range of enterprise customers, writes Computer World.

In effect, these new services from Meraki Networks and Aerohive Networks will let enterprises 'rent' secure wired and wireless networking services, administered via an online management interface, without having to invest capital dollars in hardware and software.

The services from both vendors are designed to be simple to deploy, set up and use. For both companies, a prime target is the small and medium business market, and highly distributed companies with branch offices.

With the Indian enterprise data market poised to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 12% over the next five years, the Ethernet market is likely to grow at 39% over the period, an industry expert says, according to The Times of India.

Ethernet is a physical and data link layer technology for local area networks, which is used by higher-level network protocols like Internet Protocol as their transmission medium.

Currently, the Indian enterprise data service market is worth around 6 150 rupees crore, which is only 11% of the 56 000 rupee crore-enterprise telecom market.

Cisco says one of Poland's most modern campus networks has been implemented in John Paul II Hospital in Krakow, states IEWY News.

The network infrastructure, built with Cisco technology, provides high-bandwidth connectivity across the campus with speeds of up to 10Gb per second.

With 550 beds and 14 round-the-clock medical care units, including seven clinical departments, John Paul II Hospital is one of the largest health care institutions in Poland.