May 4th Show Latest Wireless Industry News - Steve Stroh, Marlon Schafer & Jim Sutton
Canada allocates an additional 255 MHz of license-exempt spectrum in 5 GHz band; US Wireless Online juggernaut continues acquisition binge, acquires iSkywire; Verizon Wireless decides to kill free Wi-Fi network; New product family of Wireless Mesh Network Routers from Tropos. And from the If You Have More Money Than Goodsense Dept, you 've heard of the WiFi shielding house paint probably, now a company is claiming WiFi shielding window film - Steve will rip this one. www.bwianews.com WISP Of The Month: Tampa's Rapid Systems - Dustin Jurman Rapid Systems founder, Dustin Jurman, joins us to discuss building a carrier class ISP/WISP network. "I won't do it any other way, I won't use consumer grade products in my network." Rapid Systems is a Tampa, FL area ISP that also uses wireless technologies to serve customers. "I don't ever call myself a WISP, I'll use dial-up, DSL, fiber, or wireless technologies to serve customers." Airaya Gets FCC Grant for Public Safety Banded Products - Bill Pabst Bill Pabst, Co-founder and VP of Engineering for Airaya joins to discuss the company and their products. . Airaya was co-founded by Mike Nydam and Bill Pabst in 2001. Bill has spent the last 16 years developing Spread Spectrum wireless products for Point of Sale, Pen Computers, access points and mesh systems. Currently, Bill is responsible for the design and development of the AIRAYA Bridge Products. The current products allow users to do pt-to-pt, pt-to-mpt, and functions between Ethernet networks over a number of different frequency bands world wide usage. The product functions as a MAC layer bridge. www.airaya.com Contact during the show via IM: AIM: Marlonoffice, SteveStroh2, or JimSuttonVA ------------------------------ Frank Keeney Tel: +1-626-344-1424 Pasadena Networks, LLC http://www.wlanparts.com
