The Xircom people back in the day that 802.11 was written were Ken Biba, Ennis' boss at Sytek and presently CEO of Vivato, and Phil Belanger, formerly Mr. Omninet at Corvus and presently doing something for Biba at Vivato. There also were Corvus people at Photonics, whose founder, Dick Allen, is Mr. Wi-Fi at Apple now.
NCR Holland was acquired by AT&T and then by Proxim, developing Orinoco along the way. Previously they were involved in StarLAN. RB On 31 Jul 2003 at 13:20, Patrick Leary wrote: > Thanks Russell. I do like to understand the history. If you drill way > deep, it seems a very small core of engineers founded WLAN. The > orginal company we came from was actually spun off and sold to Lucent > and became their WaveLAN product. > > Patrick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 4:08 PM > To: Dan Lanciani > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [BAWUG] 802.11b Long Range non line of sight > > > Dan Lanciani writes: > > |Aironet, which itself was related to Telxon, > > > > I've wondered: what was that relationship? And wasn't there also > some > connection between Symbol and Aironet/Telxon? > > Telxon SLW was a Canadian company which made the ARLAN products. I > wrote the packet driver for their old 900 Mhz 200Kbps product, the > AR-450. They ported it to their 2Mbps board, the AR-650. Clarkson > University used that board for a 2Mbps wireless LAN back in 1993. > > Shortly thereafter they got sold to Aironet, which renumbered > everything. The products remained compatible, however, and the packet > driver still worked. At some point the 900 Mhz band lost its cachet, > and everybody moved to the 2.4Ghz range. > > I think Symbol may have purchased their initial design from Airnet. > That was just to get their engineering going, though, because they've > been doing all their own designs since then. > > -- > --My blog is at angry-economist.russnelson.com | Free markets express > in the Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | practical > world our belief 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | > that there is that of God Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 > FAX | in all people. -- general wireless list, a bawug thing > <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: > http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > This mail passed through mail.alvarion.com > > ********************************************************************** > ****** ******** This footnote confirms that this email message has > been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious > code, vandals & computer viruses. > ********************************************************************** > ****** ******** -- general wireless list, a bawug thing > <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: > http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- Richard Bennett http://www.bennett.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
