Cisco purchased Clarity in Sept of 1998 for, what, $157M? They announced the EOL on November 12, 2001.
Lets call it 2 years. How much Clarity gear did Cisco sell? What was the ROI on this investment? Jim Greg DesBrisay writes: > -----Forwarded Message----- > > From: Greg DesBrisay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [BAWUG] 802.11b Long Range non line of sight > Date: 25 Jul 2003 08:46:02 -0700 > > > Jim, > > Love your language. > > Yes, the system I'm referring to is the old Clarity Wireless system that > was acquired by Cisco. > > The system worked beautifully. We sold over $100M of equipment in the > final year which would make most companies happy (and is quite a bit > more than most wireless companies are making these days), but Cisco > wants a division to make $1B/yr. Cisco cancelled the products because > Sprint and Worldcom couldn't make a decision to move forward with > wireless service. (We've all since found out why Worldcom couldn't > proceed). > > Greg > > > > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 23:53, Jim Thompson wrote: > > > > Jeff King writes: > > > Patrick: > > > > > > Do you have a white paper on how OFDM alone allows non-line of sight > > > transmission? It seems like it wouldn't make any difference although I had > > > heard of a technology that used multipath effects to allow non-line of sight > > > transmissions (and that assumes you have some reflections to work against). > > > > You may be referring to Clarity's VOFDM. It was bullshit. Cisco > > acquired the company, and then dropped the product because it didn't > > work. > > > > Jim > > > > -- > > "Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure." > > -- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) > > > > -- > > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- "Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure." -- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
