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August 27th, 2008

Wi-Fi Planet reviews Sputnik 720

Wi-Fi Planet says: “We found that the Sputnik 720 is a high-performance hotspot gateway that is customizable and easy to deploy. Although we found a few ways that Sputnik could improve its product, the Sputnik 720 and the SputnikNet service provide a great hotspot solution for medium to large-sized establishments.”

Read the full review.

February 28th, 2008

Wi-Fi planet profiles Sputnik captive portal solution

Wi-Fi Planet features a brief overview of Sputnik:

Sputnik provides hotspot owners with a full slate of user management, authentication, billing, and logging features. Sputnik sells its services in a variety of bundles, including wireless hardware, subscription access to their web-based hotspot management, and software for installation on local servers.

November 20th, 2007

Sputnik-powered DD-WRT firmware ships with Buffalo APs

Sputnik partner NewMedia-NET’s popular open-source Wi-Fi AP firmware, DD-WRT, now ships on the Buffalo WHR-HP-G54DD. That’s great news for European and Asian customers who want managed Wi-Fi, out of the box, because Sputnik comes built-in. U.S. customers will have to wait until Buffalo clears up litigation against it by CSIRO. (More information about the injunction is on Buffalo’s site.)

Here is some recent press coverage:

We can’t wait to get our hands on these APs, and will update you when we do.

August 7th, 2007

Sputnik powers New Rochelle Muni Wi-Fi

Something we didn’t catch at the time: the City of New Rochelle has built a Wi-Fi network in its downtown, and Sputnik is the management system powering the service. Sputnik partner HD Communications did system integration and operations.

OK, we admit this is old news. But we just saw the blog post today. Courtesy of CEDX.

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