wi-fi

D-Link announced it has a new smart home Wi-Fi camera in development that would be compatible with the new Apple Home app, as well as with Apple’s HomeKit smart home framework. Touting itself as “one of the latest brands to support Apple’s smart home framework,” D-Link specifically noted that...

Ruckus Wireless just added two new Wireless AC Wave 2 access points to its growing family of wireless APs. Ruckus Wireless, now a Brocade brand, added the ZoneFlex T710 and the ZoneFlex R510 to its line of Wave 2 products targeting business and campus environments. Key features in the new...

If you've been wondering whether Qualcomm would let Broadcom have the market for tri-radio routers all to itself, you now have the answer. Today at Computex 2016, the company announced its tri-radio 802.11ac platform. Both are built around Qualcomm’s IPQ40x9 802.11ac SoC, introduced last...

Updated - TP-LINK today announced its Talon AD7200 Multi-Band Wi-Fi Router is now available. The product was announced at CES 2016. The Talon AD7200 is a 4x4 Qualcomm-based MU-MIMO enabled AC2600 class router with an integrated single-stream 802.11ad radio supporting a 4600 Mbps maximum link...

Ignition Design Labs today launched the Kickstarter campaign for its Portal Wi-Fi router that was previewed at CES 2016. Portal is a QCA-based AC2350 / 2400 class router with working MU-MIMO. Its main claim to fame, however, is IDL's FastLanes™ technology that provides access to the 5 GHz...

Updated - Ubiquiti Networks has decided the challenges of battling for market share in the enterprise Wi-Fi space aren't enough. Today, it announced the creation of its "consumer electronics innovation laboratory" Ubiquiti Labs and launched its AmpliFi Wi-Fi system. AmpliFi combines...

Cypress will acquire Broadcom’s IoT business, and its related assets, in a $550 million all-cash transaction. Post-acquisition, Broadcom will continue working on non-IoT wireless solutions for devices like laptops, smartphone, and set-top boxes, while Cypress will be in a greater position to...

Introduced earlier this year at CES, the D-Link DIR-879 is a dual band AC1900 Wi-Fi router, and the first router to be released from D-Link’s budget-minded EXO series of products. The DIR-879 has four GbE ports for LAN, and one GbE for the WAN connection. Note that there are no USB ports in...

WarpGateway is a TCP acceleration proxy appliance that sits between an internet modem and wireless router. Badu claims the appliance's patent-pending proprietary WarpTCP rate and timing control algorithms can improve wireless upload/download speeds by up to 100%, increase range and coverage...

Arris introduced its new SURFboard line of RipCurrent G.hn routers and extenders. The added members of the SURFboard family of products adds flexibility to building out a home network by using a combination of wireless, wired and powerline technologies. Setting up the new products is...

Powered by Broadcom’s 64-bit quad-core BCM49408 CPU, the new Wireless AC Wave 2 access point platform doubles up on the 5 GHz channels and will be available in two different flavors: Dual Band, Dual Concurrent (2.4 GHz+ 5 GHz or 5GHz +5 GHz) Tri-Radio (2.4 GHz + 5 GHz + 5 GHz) The new...

Asking Alexa, Amazon Echo’s built-in voice assistant, to turn on your living room lights is now possible with D-Link’s Connected Home Smart Wi-Fi Plugs. D-link announced the new compatibility with Amazon’s Smart Home device as an additional feature that now exists alongside D-Link’s mydlink Home...