An 802.11 Router For 3G Internet Service

An anonymous reader writes "Possio AB has launched a Linux-based wireless access point that allows users to connect to the Internet through 3G (third-generation) mobile telephone networks, which carry Internet data at broadband speeds. According to the Swedish company, which has filed for a patent on local-to-cellular routers, the PX30 can bring broadband wireless Internet service to small sites such as cafes, temporary hotspots such as building and event sites, mobile hot-spots such as buses and limos, and hot-spots in locations without a wired backhaul alternative. It can also be used, Possio says, by mobile-only carriers wishing to offer broadband Internet service, and in data acquisition and remote management applications such as M2M (machine-to-machine) applications."

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Patent What?

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Jeez, we were talking about running NAT/Routing on an iPaq with a Merlin/Ricochet card and an 802.11b card long enough ago that we scrapped the nickname ("The Grenade") because of 9/11.

Linksys ultimately built just such a device (more like a WAP-11 with a PCMCIA slot), and Ricochet Networks sold it for a while.