Holy smoke! No this isn’t a hybrid wireless access smoke detector…

D-Link is bringing out two 802.11g wireless access points next year that are both designed to look like smoke detectors. They are aimed at businesses such as hotel, where a company want to keep the additional devices looking similar.

They can be ceiling mounted, and have to power options: via a conventional plug or using Power over Ethernet (PoE), a technology that is still in its infancy, but that uses the Ethernet cable to trickle power to a device. At the moment, only low powered devices can take advantage of PoE, although obvious future applications ripe for the technology once it can charge more power hungry devices are networked printers and computers.

Of the two D-Link DAP 3260 devices pictured, the larger one has a greater range.

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