I still talk with Doug Harmon and Kevin Knuth once in awhile on IM. Doug is working on a municipal wireless project in Dublin, Ohio. Kevin is working for Maplenet with the RBak product.
Rick Harnish President OnlyInternet Broadband & Wireless, Inc. 260-827-2482 Founding Member of WISPA -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Unger Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 3:20 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: old WLAN history, was RE: [WISPA] Broadband Wireless... The "second" Doug was Doug Harmon (or Harman). jack Jeff Broadwick wrote: > I don't know about the 2nd Doug, but their main sales guy, Kevin Knuth, is > still in Fort Wayne, IN. > > Jeff > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Patrick Leary > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 1:56 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: RE: old WLAN history, was RE: [WISPA] Broadband Wireless... > > :) Yep. WaveAccess was from Lucent and had the same roots (literally, > through LANair) as BreezeCOM. Lucent discontinued it when they moved to > DSSS, which was better for wireless LAN, at least in terms of what was > allowed per the FCC rules (wide band hopping was never permitted so hoppers > were hogtied to lower bandwidth...it was eventually permitted, but only at > very low power, useless for all our market). > > And yes, the two Dougs of KarlNet. Doug Karl, as frustrating as all that > was, did do okay in the end but he was hosed (in my opinion) by YDI. > > Patrick > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Rick Harnish > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 9:41 AM > To: 'WISPA General List' > Subject: RE: old WLAN history, was RE: [WISPA] Broadband Wireless... > > Patrick, > > I remember a lot of that transition well. Our first wireless gear in > 1997 > was WaveAccess. I have no idea what ever happened to them but I remember it > was FHSS. We put an AP in our office attic and served up the local library > and several businesses around our building. The library and several of > those businesses are still customers today! > > Ahh and you forgot about Doug Karl's Karlnet, based on a > Lucent/Orinoco/Agere platform. Sold to YDI, then Terabeam then was > essentially EOL'd when Proxim bought Terabeam. It seems like all those > transactions transpired in about 18 months. Talk about torture for Karlnet > customers! > > Respectfully, > > Rick Harnish > President > OnlyInternet Broadband & Wireless, Inc. > 260-827-2482 > Founding Member of WISPA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Patrick Leary > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:25 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: old WLAN history, was RE: [WISPA] Broadband Wireless... > > 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 Multiplex>WMUX buys the original WLAN pioneer > Proxim and keeps Proxim name> Proxim buys Farallon and Proxim buys > Agere>Proxim sold in bankruptcy to YDI who had recently "bought" > Terabeam>YDI/Terabeam dba Proxim > > And within that story is Agere: Lannet spins off>LANair pieces become part > of Lucent's original pioneering WLAN group>Lucent 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Steve Stroh > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 8:40 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Broadband Wireless Internet Access Vendors list > > > Patrick: > > Thanks for the inputs. > > FreeWave and MDS were added from a previous reply. > > Lightpointe typo corrected. > > Wave Wireless / Waverider was sold to Vecima Networks. > > ZTE added. > > Huawei added. > > Almost couldn't find any references to Acton; it's actually Accton, now > added. > > Added AWB. > > Cirronet still lists their Broadband Wireless gear. > > As far as I can tell, Qualcomm doesn't actually make gear - the only thing > they manufacture is chipsets and lawsuits. > > Arraycomm is also out of the equipment business - only intellectual property > and IntelliCell. iBurst was spun off to Kyocera. > > Good point on Terabeam; it was deleted and Proxim added. > > > Thanks, > > Steve > > > > On Feb 15, 2007, at Feb 15 07:17 PM, Patrick Leary wrote: > > >>Steve, here are a few off my head that are not there...Freewave, MDS, >>Lightpointe is with an "e" on the end, Wave Wireless (formerly >>Waverider, etc.), ZTE (ZiMAX), Huwaie, Acton Wireless Broadband (AWB), >>is Cirronet still around?, Qualcomm (with their MediaFLO), Arraycom, >>Terabeam actually dba's as Proxim. >> >>P.S. - thanks for only including legal vendors >> >>Patrick Leary >>AVP WISP Markets >>Alvarion, Inc. >>o: 650.314.2628 >>c: 760.580.0080 >>Vonage: 650.641.1243 >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > --- > > Steve Stroh > 425-939-0076 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Writing about BWIA again! - www.bwianews.com > > > > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > ************************************************************************ > ************ > This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp > Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer > viruses(190). > ************************************************************************ > ************ > > > > > > > > ************************************************************************ > ************ > This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp > Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. > ************************************************************************ > ************ > > > > > > > > > ************************************************************************ > **** > ******** > This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp > Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. > ************************************************************************ > **** > ******** > > > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > ************************************************************************ > ************ > This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp > Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer > viruses(190). > ************************************************************************ > ************ > > > > > > > > ************************************************************************ > ************ > This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp > Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. > ************************************************************************ > ************ > > > > > > > > > **************************************************************************** > ******** > This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp > Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. > **************************************************************************** > ******** > > > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > -- Jack Unger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. 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