12. On the feasibility of completely wireless data centers - Conventional data centers, based on wired networks, entail high wiring costs, suffer from performance bottlenecks, and have low resilience to network failure, say researchers from Cornell University and Microsoft. Their academic paper investigates "a radically new methodology for building wire-free data centers based on emerging 60 GHz millimeter wave RF technology."
8. CommScope inaugurates in-building wireless partner network - To help venue owners and wireless operators find highly skilled system integrators, CommScope announced an expansion of its In-Building Wireless Partner Program, and named the first companies to have achieved its new designation of In-Building Wireless Premier Partner.