[IP] Vivato Shuts Down Operations
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 16, 2005 1:54:29 PM EST
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Vivato Shuts Down Operations
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Vivato Shuts Down Operations
By Eric Griffith
December 16, 2005
<http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3571531>
Unstrung and WiFiNetNews [Note: Glenn has a lot more detail at
<http://wifinetnews.com/archives/006144.html>] are reporting this
morning that Vivato has ceased operations.
The Spokane, Washington-based company made a big splash with its
debut in 2002, securing $20 million in venture capital to back what
it called at the time a "Wi-Fi switch." The product was very
different from the switches of other start-up WLAN switch companies
like Airespace, Trapeze and Aruba — it was a large, wall mounted
panel using smart phased-array antennas with a patented
PacketSteering technology to provide 802.11 covering an entire floor
of a building. Later, they created an outdoor version. Eventually the
panels were renamed as Base Stations. The company also created
microcell access points to provide lower-cost coverage for indoors.
The company was dogged by production delays and management changes.
It took a long time to embrace 802.11g after most of the industry had
already done so. Costs for the equipment were also high — at its
debut in October last year, the outdoor base station with 802.11g
support (model VP2210) was close to $10,000. New technologies like
WiMax and MIMO-based 802.11 likely put a very tight squeeze on the
company.
Just last week the company announced what may have been its last
sale, to the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. The school
is using two VP2210 Base Stations mounted on buildings (plus ten
microcell APs) to cover the entire campus with 802.11g Wi-Fi. Other
big deployments announced included Vivato powered hotzones in the
cities of Frankfort, Kentucky and Kent, Washington.
Calls to Vivato headquarters and spokespeople have gone unreturned
today.
Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com>
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