Open Source Wireless Tools Emerge

By Anne Zieger
2005-04-13


Resources
• Check out the latest in IBM and Lotus Software Mobile and Wireless product offerings , providing connectivity with your Notes desktop as well as wireless access to, and synchronization with, the Domino server.

• Charge up your enterprise mobile development platform with the IBM Mobile Office Entry Jumpstart solution.

• IBM's open BlueHoc simulator , released under the IBM Public License, allows users to evaluate how Bluetooth performs under various ad-hoc networking scenarios.

• Gather more information on developer trends from the Evans Data site .

• Download the latest version of the Linux-WLAN distribution.

• Learn about Kannel's WAP/SMS translation gateway .

• GNU Bayonne can be obtained in source form .

• Get more background on the Asterisk software-only PBX .

• Read the background and documentation on the OpenAP open source access point package.

• This site offers an extensive list of wireless LAN resources for Linux users.

• KwiFiManager is a set of KDE tools using configurator and link monitor wireless extensions.

• Qwireless is an x86 and iPaq app analyzing wireless LANs.

• Gwireless is a GNOME-based link monitor and configurator for 802.11b wireless cards using wireless extensions.

• Open1x is an open source version of the IEEE 802.1x authentication protocol using wireless extensions.

• Learn more about Motorola's Metrowerks division.

• Find out about Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME , which is available for Linux.

• Read about the Jabber platform .

• Check out the home page for the Morphis WAX project .

• The Enhydra project has a page dedicated to the EnhydraME server .

• Learn about the Sputnik Community Gateway .

Tutorial Pages:
» Slowly but Surely, the Open Source Development Model is Spreading Beyond the wired world
» Commercial Offerings
» Volunteer Efforts
» Wireless LAN Options: Still Ramping Up
» A Longer Road
» Resources


First published byIBM DeveloperWorks

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