FierceWiFi Names Wavion as a 2006 ''Fierce 15'' Mobile Broadband Company.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Wavion, a new provider of metro WiFi access points (APs) and technology for service providers and infrastructure equipment vendors, announced today that it has been named to FierceWiFi's annual Fierce 15 list, for its innovation in the wireless broadband High-speed wireless transmission of data. What is "high" speed is always a changing number. Wireless systems are typically slower than land-based, wireline networks. In the past, wireless broadband started at 250 Kbps, whereas land-based broadband was generally considered to start at T1 marketplace. FierceWiFi is an internationally recognized email newsletter published by FierceMarkets, designed to provide executives with up-to-date information on the burgeoning WiFi marketplace. "Wavion has developed a spatially adaptive access point which promises to increase the range, penetration and capacity of WiFi networks See wireless Ethernet and 802.11. utilizing MIMO (Multiple Input/Multiple Output) Pronounced "my-mo," it is the use of multiple transmitters and receivers (multiple antennas) on wireless devices for improved performance. , SDMA (Spatial Division Multiple Access) A satellite communications method that transmits within the same frequency to different receiving zones on earth. It takes advantage of the narrow beams that can be transmitted by the satellite to dish antennas and allows and digital beamforming technologies," said Ben Frankel, editor of FierceWiFi. "As metro-WiFi and campus-wide WiFi networks proliferate pro·lif·er·ate v. To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring. , Wavion's technology will play a bigger role in these types of deployments. We congratulate the company on its recent launch and pioneering approach to WiFi." Wavion's spatially adaptive access point is the first MIMO-based metro-scale AP, which resolves the performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing today's metro WiFi deployments. Wavion delivers significantly improved user experiences through stronger connections at higher speeds, and better coverage with minimal dead spots Dead spots are abnormally fast decays of the fundamental tone on stringed instruments and are caused by a damping of the string's vibrations at a given note, due to energy transfer from the string to the instrument body. . Rather than use commoditized chipsets with single radio and diversity antennas, Wavion custom designed ASICs and embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. to optimally leverage six antennas and six radio transceivers in a single AP. One spatially adaptive AP from Wavion does the work of three to four conventional APs, reducing service providers' capital and operating expenditures by 50 percent. "We look to FierceWiFi to provide us with the necessary information to remain informed and competitive in today's fast-paced mobile broadband Description Mobile Broadband is a type of wireless internet access that differs from Wi-Fi. Mobile Broadband is the name used to describe the 3G services which are made possible by HSDPA and HSUPA, the latest technologies on the W-CDMA evolutionary path. industry," said Alan Menezes, vice president of Marketing and Business Development for Wavion, "We consider it an honor to be recognized by such a leading news outlet." The Fierce 15 celebrates the spirit of being "fierce" -- championing innovation and creativity, even in the face of intense competition. The complete list of Fierce 15 companies is available in today's issue of FierceWiFi and on the FierceWiFi Web site at http://www.fiercewifi.com. Demonstrations and early access to Wavion's AP for both infrastructure equipment vendors and service providers are available now in Silicon Valley. Interested parties please contact Wavion directly at 408-261-7000 or visit http://www.wavion.net. About FierceMarkets FierceMarkets is a Washington, DC-based e-publishing company that provides critical market information for elite business decision-makers in specialized industries. FierceMarkets publications reach more than 350,000 top-level executives in over 100 countries every business day. Current newsletters include FierceBiotech (http://www.fiercebiotech.com), FierceCIO (http://fiercecio.com), FierceDeveloper (http://www.fiercedeveloper.com), FierceEnterprise (http://www.fierceenterprise.com), FierceFinance (http://www.fiercefinance.com), FierceHealthcare (http://www.fiercehealthcare.com), FierceIPTV (http://www.fierceiptv.com), FierceMobileContent (http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com), FierceVoIP (http://www.fiercevoip.com), FierceWiFi (http://www.fiercewifi.com), FierceWireless (http://www.fiercewireless.com), and IT-Wireless (http://www.it-wireless.com). About Wavion Wavion is delivering a new category of spatially adaptive access point to service providers and equipment vendors. The company's new generation of WiFi technology is the first and only to resolve the significant performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing metro WiFi deployments. Wavion is privately held and backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Mike Goguen, Mark Stevens, Jim Goetz, Sameer Gandhi, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme. , Tel Aviv-based Elron Electronic Industries Ltd., Star Ventures, and BRM BRM biologic response modifier. BRM Biological response modifier, see there Capital. Wavion has offices in Silicon Valley and Yoqne'am, Israel. To learn more, please visit Wavion at http://www.wavion.net. |
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