[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“Aiming to become a key player in the deployment and integration
of Wi-Fi wireless local area networks (WLANs), IBM Monday sealed an
agreement with Columbia Advanced Wireless and Rocksteady Networks
which rig more than 1,000 truck stops across the U.S. with 802.11
hotspots.“IBM Global Services will deploy the networks using IBM eServer
xSeries servers running Linux, with Rocksteady supplying its NSA
Network Sharing application, which authenticates and then
dynamically manages the Internet session based on a driver’s
credentials. It also offers additional capabilities, including
dynamic bandwidth shaping and metering, which allocates and
prioritizes bandwidth usage in real time on a user-by-user
basis…”