• School system tweaks its Wi-Fi for better control

  By Matt Hamblen At the Rowan-Salisbury School System in N.C., students and staff use some 7,000 iPads and other iOS devices on a Wi-Fi network stretching across 30 schools. Not surprisingly, networking demands can get tricky.

• IEEE studying lighter Gigabit Ethernet cable for use in cars

  Ethernet has gained speed many times, and now it may be about to lose weight.

• Bowdoin students' love of Ocarina music app hasn't crashed the Wi-Fi

  Wi-Fi use has exploded on college campuses, and none more than Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

• Carrier Ethernet 2 aims for global connectivity

  The Metro Ethernet Forum has updated its Carrier Ethernet specification, hoping to standardize the use of Ethernet for global multicarrier services.

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  Kmart to replace LAN with Ethernet switches

  Kmart Australia will replace its local area network infrastructure with Ethernet switches, with the project set to support some 180 stores across Australia and New Zealand.

• Mobile survival guide: Top tips for staying connected

  Picture this: You're sitting down

• Networking gets faster, more media-savvy

  Home is where the network is: That's the mantra of networking vendors at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas this week.

Whitepapers about LAN

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  The Network Impact of 802.11n

  802.11n is delivering on promises to bring revolutionary advances in throughput and capacity to the wireless LAN. For the first time in the history of the development of IEEE 802.11 networks, wireless LAN speeds are comparable to commonly used wired technologies. Now that wireless LAN users have access to speeds well in excess of 100 Mbps, wireless LANs can no longer be treated as an afterthought.