Junxion is a company known for its cellular router

Cellular router

Cellular routers are routers that provide shared Internet access by incorporating a cellular data modem and providing traditional interfaces like Ethernet and WiFi....

s in a recognizable lime green color. These network appliance products used embedded distribution of Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 (called Junxion OS) and contained a PCMCIA card slot for supplying the mobile wireless PC card.

Simply put, a Junxion Box uses the data plan of a mobile service card, such as EDGE

Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution

Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM...

 or EVDO

Evolution-Data Optimized

 Evolution-Data Optimized or Evolution-Data only is a telecommunications standard for the wireless transmission of data through radio signals, typically for broadband Internet access...

, and acts as a NAT

Network address translation

In computer networking, network address translation is the process of modifying IP address information in IP packet headers while in transit across a traffic routing device....

 router host for upstream bandwidth provision as a typical local area network using ethernet. These could also be used as a secondary fall-over provider with an existing dual-WAN router.

On 5 August 2008, the acquisition of Juxion by Sierra Wireless

Sierra Wireless

Sierra Wireless is a wireless communications equipment designer and manufacturer, founded in 1993 and currently headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada....

 was announced.

See also

• Femtocell
  Femtocell
  In telecommunications, a femtocell is a small cellular base station, typically designed for use in a home or small business. It connects to the service provider’s network via broadband ; current designs typically support 2 to 4 active mobile phones in a residential setting, and 8 to 16 active...
  
  
• Fixed-mobile convergence
• Generic Access Network
  Generic Access Network
  Generic Access Network or GAN is a telecommunication system that extends mobile voice, data and IP Multimedia Subsystem/Session Initiation Protocol applications over IP networks...
  
  (GAN), also known as Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)

External links

• Junxion official site
  • Junxion Box and OS
  • Field Commander
• BoingBoing: Verizon doesn't like Junxion boxes
• C|Net Junxion Box review includes video and panorama images of the device
• StompBox Networks explains how WWAN routers are constructed