That's what I figured eje but then again I mean they got awarded best new start and one of the most promising company's in wifi forgot the site for the awards from some tradeshow last year... (Surprised personally SB wasn't on the list :( for best new startup) They seem to be persistent on the NLOS up to 3 miles then again no pricing yet and that's the thing that there pushing so much its NLOS and the clients only got to have a basic 802.11b device to use it. (SB hehe) but vivato is there own hardware fully developed nice looking stuff especially the indoor model a panel on the wall looks very sharp and impressive. As for beamstearing's website they aren't doing the hardware there doing circuitry for other companies to use like intel etc. That's kinda why I posted it in here (last I heard there was talk of SB radios in development lol) but then again that chipset probably pushes the radios over that "cheapest for the best quality" motto.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Eje Gustafsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 9:59 PM
To: Oliver Shaw
OS> Hi Chris,
OS> Beam steering is just one of technique used by some to focus the signal in
OS> certain specific way to improve range. These wifi switch act as the normal
OS> base station or access point as we know of. On the customer end they still
OS> use the standard wifi (802.11b) cards.
OS> The other company using similar antenna technique is vivato.net. The
OS> advantage these switches is the extended range of coverage. They can cover
OS> 2 to 3 miles NLOS.
so THEY claims. Still no proven installs around from what I heard.
I can't see that will work for that distance anyways even if the
antenna is 24dB on the server side. The client side will still only be
a normal 802.11b with what 35mw into a 0.4dB antenna..
- Eje
OS> Oliver
OS> On Fri, 30 May 2003, phantam wrote:
>> :: Posted in wrong msg reply ::
>>
>>
>>
>> Is beam stearing still 802.11? It is right? Just heard that bandspeed is
>> gonna be licensing there bandstearing chips out sounds intriguing. While im
>> on the subject are there any wifi switches that aren't bound to 1 access
>> point? Too bad I haven't found one that works for SB's LOL
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
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