Linksys Wireless Guard

[Relayer]

http://www.linksys.com/WirelessGuard/

http://wireless.weblogsinc.com/entry/2375938737214683/

more info on the technology behind it. http://www.wirelesssecuritycorp.com/wsc/public/index.jsp

 

[RagingBITCH]

I dunno Scott, at the users it seems to be aimed at, it seems like most of them would have some sort of switch setup anyway for networking. I work in a small office of about 10 people and we have a switch and about 3 servers setup. Yes it's cheap at $5 a month but I don't think you'd really need the enterprise level "encryption" it offers. Any mission critical data information you'd need extra security for you probably wouldn't be broadcasting wirelessly anyway.

 

[Relayer]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
I dunno Scott, at the users it seems to be aimed at, it seems like most of them would have some sort of switch setup anyway for networking. I work in a small office of about 10 people and we have a switch and about 3 servers setup. Yes it's cheap at $5 a month but I don't think you'd really need the enterprise level "encryption" it offers. Any mission critical data information you'd need extra security for you probably wouldn't be broadcasting wirelessly anyway.

Yeah this seems to be geared towards the extra paranoid or a hotspot of some kind.

 

[cmetz]

WPA enterprise security is a very good thing, I'd like to see it in more products.

Linksys's WG service, though, is really just shared hosting on their RADIUS server with a web GUI. Their estimate for how much it costs a small business to set up and run a RADIUS server for 3 years is $15,000, and if you believe that then their $5/mo/user fee seems reasonable. I can build a RADIUS server out of a Wal-Mart PC ($200) and OpenBSD (free), which is just a tad less than their $15,000, and even adding man-time to that it's going to be a little less. Linksys's marketing people appear to be consuming some controlled substances.