Oh wow, that one will be fun. Many are lessons about market-readiness:
it is not enough to have good technology; you must fit the market need
AND maturation. We, for example, have held off many technologies due to
lack of market readiness. Our ability to somewhat accurately time our
technological evolution due to excellent long term strategic vision has
been central to our success. Many other companies had some really good
stuff, but they horribly mis-timed the market. But 2000 was a heady time
and many thought the market was much more ready than it was for
broadband. The Crash sobered things, with the major buyers (big
carriers) all going into deep hunker-down mode, indeed for their very
commercial lives. Even at that, few carriers were sparred major pain and
that pain was well-distributed down the supply chain!
Patrick Leary
AVP WISP Markets
Alvarion, Inc.
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Subject: [WISPA] Re: old WLAN history
Patrick:
You just accelerated the launch of Broadband Wireless Internet Access
Deadpool - http://www.bwiadeadpool.com. It was, and will probably
continue to be a low-priority project, but my files are just BULGING
with the dead BWIA companies (not even COUNTING the dead service
providers.)
It will be fun rehashing these stories.
Some of my favorite dead companies are Malibu Networks, Radiant
Networks, and especially Caly Networks. Thinking about my files, the
list of dead BWIA vendors must run into the hundreds by now.
In my reading of the announcements WaveRider -- Vecima Networks, I
don't think Charles made the transition.
Thanks,
Steve
On Feb 16, 2007, at Feb 16 09:25 AM, Patrick Leary wrote:
Well, for sure this industry never stands still does it Steve? As one
fond of change, that one of the things I most enjoy. I knew from
people
there that V-com has become Vecima (much better 'new millienium' type
name), but I did not know they absorbed Wave/Waverider. Did Charles
(Brown) join Vecima too?
Years ago when the Cirronet folks were creating their company out of
their successful industrial wireless space, I sat down with of the
principals. They really thought they had the secret sauce. I was very
cautionary, trying to impart how challenging the market was/(is!).
They
had a hard and not especially gratifying few years.
I forgot about Arraycom sold off iBurst. Sigh. It made me remember
how
much I have forgotten about lost companies in this business. Remember
ioSpan? How about Beamreach? Remember they even had a successful
Verizon
trial fours years ago.
And then how about all the companies bought, collapsed into and
morphed
over the years? Someday we should build a full BWIA family tree of
sorts. Fun examples (I might be a little off [is that Fruedian?]) just
from perhaps the 4 original wireless LAN pioneers:
Glenair spun off Western MultiplexWMUX buys the original WLAN pioneer
Proxim and keeps Proxim name Proxim buys Farallon and Proxim buys
AgereProxim sold in bankruptcy to YDI who had recently bought
TerabeamYDI/Terabeam dba Proxim
And within that story is Agere: Lannet spins offLANair pieces become
part of Lucent's original pioneering WLAN groupLucent spins out Agere
which comes out with Orinoco which ends up at Proxim...
And fewer would know the others with ties from LANair formed original
WLAN pioneer BreezeCOM, which later merged with Floware to became
Alvarion in 2001...
How many remember that Telxon created original WLAN pioneer Aironet
which was bought by Cisco.
And all that is one tiny fraction of all that has taken place and does
not even cover the rise of the UL BWA application itself where we were
also a principal pioneer on the product side (but we were only smartly
following the lead of the original WISPs, most who were using our gear
that pre-dated DSSS) as the others stayed in WLAN.
I wonder what the next 12 years will bring?
Patrick Leary
AVP WISP Markets
Alvarion, Inc.
o: 650.314.2628
c: 760.580.0080
Vonage: 650.641.1243
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