AirLink's PinPoint-E and Raven-E EV-DO modems

Looks like this one slipped by last week: AirLink's gone all people-proof on us with their ruggedized external EV-DO modems. So far as we can tell these aren't exactly like Junxion Boxes or similar EV-DO WiFi routers, but are actual proper external EV-DO modems (of which we've seen very few to date). Their PinPoint-E does more or less the same as the Raven-E, but with an integrated GPS receiver (and transmitter, we'd assume), but these are more or less just coppery looking bricks in the US until one of the two EV-DO totin' wireless carriers picks it up for distribution.

[Via PhoneMag]

[osmany @ Dec 26th 2005 9:52AM]

I like these products. Last month i bought one like that but it was a "d-link"



Juste great and useful

[osmany @ Dec 26th 2005 9:52AM]

I like these products. Last month i bought one like that but it was a "d-link"



Juste great and useful

[tushar @ Dec 26th 2005 11:28AM]

"GPS receiver (and transmitter, we'd assume)" GPS transmitter? That is not the way GPS works.

[Brian @ Dec 26th 2005 11:51AM]

One of two EVDO wireless carriers? As far as I know, there is three. Alltel, Sprint/Nextel, and Verizon. Who does the research for these stories?

[David @ Dec 26th 2005 5:18PM]

Quickly, get that "GPS Transmitter" thing off that post! It's like saying your TV remote control has an infra-red receiver...

[Rocky @ Dec 26th 2005 9:03PM]

Airlink has been around for quite sometime. They were big in the CDPD market. Typically their devices are used in law-enforcement (the Raven's built in GPS) or for attaching to legacy machine to machine communication devices like electricity metering applications for public utilities. These boxes are VERY smart and will do protocol translation for legacy machine protocols and encapsulate them in IP with a built in IP stack. As far as "transmitting GPS" I would really hope the author meant sending coordinates over the EvDO network...

[vincent @ Dec 26th 2005 10:49PM]

I'd bet Ryan had a bit too much of the eggnog and meant GPRS instead of GPS, which would make a lot more sense when you consider the post.

[EVDO guy @ Dec 27th 2005 2:17AM]

There really are 2 national EVDO carriers in the US, Sprint & Verizon. AllTel is currently a regional/small player with EVDO coverage in just a few areas.



However, after the rumored buyout of T-Mobile, AllTel, may in fact become a larger player.

[dubya @ Dec 27th 2005 9:59AM]

"GPS transmitter"?



Do you people even THINK about what you're writing???

The only GPS transmitter is up in the sky.

[Peter Rojas @ Dec 27th 2005 3:03PM]

You guys are kidding right? There are tons of GPS transmitters out there: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=%22gps+transmitter%22

[stulong @ Dec 27th 2005 7:17PM]

Dear Peter,

GPS 'location information' relayed via cell, broadband etc. is a lot different than transmitting actual GPS signals. As far as I know the US military is the only one who is doing this sort of thing and they would likely get pretty huffy about other signals on this frequency.



Stuart

[Tech^Cellfish @ Dec 28th 2005 5:01PM]

GPS transmitter and GPS coordinate transmitter is two VERY different things. Google will return results on both when you just search for: GPS transmitter