ITWire

The organiser of a celebration next month of the 40th anniversary of the invention of ethernet is using the occasion to highlight the need for economies in the western world to maintain the culture of innovation that spawned the creation of ethernet.

While Meru Networks' technology for providing good quality Wi-Fi service to relatively large numbers of users within small areas is largely being used in the education, healthcare and hospitality markets, it also has corporate applications.

Communications at Barrick's Cowal gold mine in New South Wales has been upgraded to a Cisco-based wireless mesh network designed by Brisbane-based CBO Telecommunications.