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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Teens and their parents will want to shop for more than backpacks and binders this back to school season as results of a new survey show that 9 out of 10 teens feel students with home wireless have an easier time completing school assignments. When it comes to improved learning, parents and their teen children strongly agree - with nearly 3 of 4 parents of teens saying students with home wireless were better equipped to complete their school...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Xirrus®, the leader in High Performance Wi-Fi that delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, and user density in the industry, announced today the deployment of Xirrus high performance 802.11n Wi-Fi Arrays at the Instituto Superior de Tecnologias Avancadas in Lisbon, Portugal. ISTEC prides itself in providing the best and most advanced technologies to aid in the education of their students. Their Xirrus deployment helps them attain this goal by...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aviat Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVNW), a leading wireless expert in advanced IP network migration, will announce the company's fourth quarter fiscal 2010 financial results at approximately 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Wednesday August 25, 2010. The company will host a conference call at 4:30 p.m. ET that same day to discuss its financial results. To listen to the live conference call, please dial 480-629-9725 (access code: 4350879)...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Xirrus®, the leader in High Performance Wi-Fi that delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, and user density in the industry, announced today the deployment of Xirrus high performance 802.11n Wi-Fi Arrays across the Adams 12 Five Star School District in Thornton, Colorado. As a large district with 45,000 students and 5,000 employees, a robust wireless system that can support a large number of concurrent users is a necessity. Adams 12 chose to...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Xirrus®, the leader in High Performance Wi-Fi that delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, and user density in the industry, announced today the deployment of Xirrus high performance 802.11n Wi-Fi Arrays through-out the Quanah Independent School District (QISD), located in Quanah Texas. Part of the Region 9 Education Service Center, QISD is spread over three campuses, containing nearly 100 staff members and educating 550 students...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Networks business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) announced today its selection of Eden Rock Communications, LLC ("Eden Rock") to serve as a system integrator for delivering Motorola's WiMAX end-to-end (E2E) low teledensity solutions. In this capacity, Eden Rock will provide system engineering services for the E2E network, integrate and test the E2E network and develop tools along with methods and procedures for the E2E WiMAX...

HSINCHU, Taiwan, July 28 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- MediaTek Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, today announces that its WiMAX SoC was almost consistently the top performing solution in a recent independent performance benchmark test of leading Mobile WiMAX(TM) chipsets. The MediaTek WiMAX chipset (CPE form factor) outperformed four of its peers (USB dongle and Minicard form factors) of the same product segment in a...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Xirrus®, the Wi-Fi "Power Play" that delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, and user density in the industry, announced today the deployment of Xirrus high performance 802.11n Wi-Fi Arrays across Wodonga Middle Years College in Victoria, Australia. As a fairly large school with 1200 students on multiple campuses, a reliable wireless network is essential to their goal of providing the best possible educational environment for their students....

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Driven by improvements in the terrestrial backbones and last-mile networks, the new undersea cables surrounding Africa will boost the broadband penetration rate from 3.2 percent in 2010 to 6.8 percent in 2015, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com). New Undersea Cables Help Boost Africa's Broadband Prospects analyzes the factors related to the new undersea cables that will be instrumental in the growth of broadband adoption...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Xirrus®, leader in High Performance Wi-Fi that delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, and user density in the industry, announced today the deployment of Xirrus high performance Wi-Fi Arrays at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mexico City, Mexico. This luxurious hotel located in the heart of one of the world's largest capitals has 8 floors with 240 guest rooms, 17 convention/banquet rooms, and a health center all requiring Wi-Fi access. The Four...