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Sprint NETGEAR Zing Mobile Hotspot Review #SprintMom
By Yolanda Machado
Sure enough… just over an hour in traffic, I heard very little complaints. I was so loving it. The NETGEAR is small but fierce and even kept working in the hills, canyons and on and off on the beach (which is totally normal here).

Hybrid STB runs Linux, supports DVB-T and ABR
By Eric Brown
NetGear is shipping a hybrid IPTV set-top box (STB) that supports terrestrial DVB-T, OTT, broadcast, and VoD HD video. The STB1100 runs Linux 2.6 on Cavium’s ARM 11-based PureVu Celestial CNC1800L STB processor, supports adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming technology, and offers I/O including WiFi, Ethernet, and USB ports.

Contest To Award Free WiFi for Schools
By David Nagel
Netgear has opened its new "WiFi My School" contest, which will award wireless networking gear and network attached storage devices to five winning schools. To participate, teachers, parents, and students (aged 13 and up) submit a 300-word (max) essay explaining why his or her school needs a new WiFi network.

Staying Connected with the NETGEAR Zing Mobile Hotspot from Sprint #SprintMom
By Sippy Cup Mom
I first used the Netgear Zing Mobile Hotspot from Sprint a few weeks ago while I picked my son up from school and then headed to two doctor’s appointments in the afternoon. I am always frustrated when we visit our local children’s hospital because there is absolutely no signal there. I popped the Mobile Hotspot into my purse and had no problem staying connected and getting work done while my son played in the waiting room.

District 220 set to provide at-home Internet
By Gloria Casas
A groundbreaking, 24-month-long pilot home Internet initiative known as Project Horsepower was introduced to the public in an official press conference at the Barrington Middle School Prairie Campus on Tuesday. This program is designed to provide the district's 700 low-income households – roughly 1,500 students – with Internet access and WiFi at home, thanks to a partnership with Comcast, Netgear and the Barrington Area Development Council.

Connect Anywhere You Go with NETGEAR Zing Mobile Hotspot
By Melissa
I'm so excited to finally be able to shout from the rooftops that I'm a Sprint Ambassador through Mom Central! I feel so honored to be one of the lucky Bloggers chosen for this fantastic opportunity and I can't wait to share all of their latest and greatest with you! …This first device is something I never would have thought I needed. That is, until I did get it and it ended up actually saving my work day a couple of weeks later! Our internet service was blacked out for an entire day last week. I was frantic, literally going crazy. Without internet, I cannot work. It's the plain and simple truth. Then I remembered the NETGEAR Zing Mobile Hotspot that I just received from Sprint. I hooked my laptop up to its wi-fi and was able to get to work! I swear, it literally saved my sanity and I'm sure any one of you who works online can relate!

Netgear’s Gateway Goes ‘Headless’
By Jeff Baumgartner
A new “headless” gateway from Netgear that can be customized to serve either cable operators or telcos will place the CE company in head-on competition with Arris and other set-top suppliers as service providers carve out their IP video transition strategies. Netgear’s HMG7000, being shown off at the IBC Conference in Amsterdam, is headless in the sense that it does not support direct video outputs. Instead, it’s made to be deployed in basements, garages, and other out-of-site places, take in the service signals from the operator and then redistribute them to IP client devices, legacy QAM set-tops, and connected smart TVs, tablets and other video devices hanging off the home network.

Netgear Loses Head for Cable
By Mari Sibley
Thecus Netgear is going headless. Netgear Inc. (Nasdaq: NTGR) has launched a headless media gateway -- the HMG7000 -- designed to give service providers a way to combine IP and traditional QAM-based video in a single service. It includes a high-speed 24x8 DOCSIS 3.0 modem, 802.11ac WiFi, MoCA 2.0 integration, and CableCARD support.

Dist. 220 giving low-income students Internet access
By Eric Peterson
The Barrington Unit District 220 and its community and corporate partners on Tuesday unveiled the details of an innovative program aimed to be a model for the rest of the country. Project Horsepower — a nod to the district's Bronco mascot — will provide home Internet service at no cost to low-income families who qualify for the national free-and-reduced lunch program.

Project Horsepower Pulls Together Partnerships for Barrington 220 Students
By Gloria Casas
The Project Horsepower will be the first of its kind in Illinois and may become a model for other school districts. The project brings together the District, Comcast, NetGear and the Barrington Area Development Council (BADC) to help bridge the digital divide. …The Board of Education has made a commitment to finance technology initiatives but BADC, Netgear and Comcast are making those efforts a reality, he said. …BADC is helping with the funding so families will receive Internet access for free through the District and Comcast’s Internet Essentials. Netgear is providing free WiFi routers. Comcast is also providing the modem, wireless gateway installation and customer support, officials said.

NETGEAR ReadyNAS RN516 Reviewed
By Tim Higgins
We're wrapping up our coverage of NETGEAR's new ReadyNASes with its top-of-line ReadyNAS 516. (If you're interested in the 516's less-expensive siblings, check the RN104 and RN300 series reviews.) You can think of the RN516 as a more powerful (and expensive) version of the Intel Atom powered RN316. The spec comparison chart below shows the key differences betwen the two are more memory (4 GB ECC vs. 2 GB) and a more powerful CPU (Intel i3-3220 vs. D2700 Atom). The RN516 is the only new ReadyNAS that is i3 based; there are no two or four-bay versions available.

NETGEAR ProSafe XS708E 8-Port 10Gbe Switch Review
By Sean Kailinch
In the world of the enterprise bandwidth is everything. If you do not have enough or you cannot keep your systems running then you are sure to lose money. The problem is getting the bandwidth you need without spending too much to get it. The current backbone to client standard is 1Gbe (Gigabit Ethernet). This give you plenty of bandwidth for client operations as well as voice traffic (which is typically about 20% of your data usage. Now this is great when you are talking about client to server traffic, but what happens when you need servers to talk to each other or servers to talk to storage?

Netgear NeoTV Max Media Streamer
By Barb Gonzalez
The NeoTV Max has the features you’d expect on a $100 player, but it’s priced at $70. While the direct-play buttons make it easy to use, menus crowded with channel options can become visually confusing to a novice. Still, this is the first media streamer with WiDi. If you have wanted to wirelessly connect your computer to your TV, this may be the way.

Netgear ProSafe GS724T Switch Review
By Staff
The Netgear ProSafe GS724T Switch features twenty-four copper 10/100/1000 ports and two SFP 100/1000 ports and is designed for small businesses utilizing the switch for applications such as VoIP, video conferencing, and network security. The 24 ports copper ports use standard RJ45 Ethernet connections and auto-negotiate for transfers, while the SFP ports can support large data transfers and other mission-critical requirements.

NETGEAR Bulks Up ReadyNAS Rackmount Family
By Tim Higgins
NETGEAR has added two more Intel-powered ReadyNAS rackmounts. The ReadyNAS 3220 and ReadyNAS 4220 are successors to the ReadyNAS 3200 and 4200. Both are 12 bay 2U rackmount NASes that take 2.5" and 3.5" SATA hard or solid-state hot-swappable drives.

Netgear ProSecure UTM150 Review
By Staff
To keep things up to date users can also select automatic update options, scaling from 15 minutes to once per week, to make sure virus definitions are always current. VPNs aren't left out of the mix either, with the UTM150 having support for up to 150 site-to-site links or 75 SSL VPN tunnels. When it comes down to it, the ProSecure UTM150 brings with it many powerful filtering options that don't take an entire IT department to configure or maintain.

Sprint kicks off tri-band device sales
By Matt Hamblen
Netgear makes two of the devices -- a Zing Mobile Hotspot for $49.99 after rebate and a 341 USB Modem for $19.99 after rebate. Both require a two-year agreement with Sprint.

Sprint to launch first batch of tri-band 4G LTE hardware on July 19
By Alex Wagner
After initially announcing its first batch of tri-band 4G LTE mobile broadband products earlier this year, Sprint today revealed when consumers will actually be able to get their mitts on the new hardware. Sprint says that the MiFi 500 LTE from Novatel (shown above), the Netgear Zing Mobile Hotspot (shown below), the Netgear 341U USB Modem and will hit its yellow shelves on July 19. Pricing and features for each model are as follows.

Sprint to offer three new tri-band hot spots on July 19
By Lynn La
Sprint announced today that three of its newest hot spots will be available beginning July 19. The tri-band devices (800MHz, 1.9GHz, and 2.5GHz) are the Netgear Zing, the Netgear 341U, and the Novatel Wireless MiFi 500LTE.

Netgear M7100 Switch Review (XSM7224)
By StorageReview Enterprise Lab
The Netgear M7100 is a fully managed switch that features twenty-four 10GBase-T ports and 4 SFP+ ports and is designed for virtualization and aggregating 10GbE access layer switches. The 24 ports of 10GBase-T use the standard RJ45 Ethernet connection and support Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and 10GbE speeds with auto-negotiation for speeds.