Motorola intros Wing5 wireless network

Motorola Solutions has introduced Wing5 WLAN, an 802.11 wireless network architecture aimed at helping IT departments offer high quality and maintain the flexibility necessary to keep pace with evolving infrastructure and technology, reports The Journal.

According to the company, the new system allows access point connection for more higher quality and more localised security, when compared with an ad hoc or router-based architecture, on devices that access the network, as well as the flexibility to allow a mix of virtual, local site and remote NOC wireless controller deployments in a single distributed network.

"The accelerating penetration of 802.11n networks and devices fuelled by the demand for access to business-critical voice and video applications demand WLAN architectures that are robust, responsive and flexible," notes Craig Mathias, principal with the wireless and mobile advisory firm Farpoint Group.

IBM has revealed it has created a new distributed computing architecture with a General Parallel File System technology that is twice as fast as existing clustered file systems and that provides management and advanced data-replication techniques, reports Computer World.

Calling it the General Parallel File System-Shared Nothing Cluster, IBM says the new architecture is designed to provide higher availability through advanced clustering technologies.

Prasenjit Sarkar, an inventor in storage analytics and resiliency for IBM's research branch, says the system scales linearly, so that a file system with 40 nodes would have 12GBps throughput, and a system with 400 nodes could achieve 120GBps throughput.

Arkoon Network Security has selected and standardised on Wind River Linux to develop Arkoon's FAST 360 family of network security devices, states 4-G Wireless Evolution.

Arkoon's Fast 360 range of network appliances is designed for the enterprise and run on Wind River Linux optimised for Cavium Octeon and Intel Xeon processors.

"Explosive broadband data traffic growth is creating new pressures on equipment companies to constantly improve network performance and increase security capabilities," says Mike Langlois, general manager for networking and telecommunications at Wind River.