About the authors
Russell Shaw is a specialist in mobile computing, telephony, networking and covers these fields regularly for numerous print and online publications. Russ writes the popular IP Telephony blog on ZDNet and contributes regularly to The Industry Standard blog as well. Author of seven books, Russ' latest book is Wireless Networking Made Easy.
John Yunker is president of Byte Level Research. He closely tracks emerging wireless technologies and their impact on consumers and carriers alike. Over the years he has written a number of major reports on technologies such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX and cellular technologies.
About this blog
Unwired studies emerging wireless technologies and how they complement and conflict with one another. Technologies covered include: Wi-Fi, WiMAX, Ultra-Wideband, Zigbee, EV-DO, UMTS, HSDPA and whatever else comes along.
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1. Larry WW on January 6, 2005 9:45 PM writes...
Disagree... on the acquisition. Airespace owns good technology, smart people, vision, and demonstrated ability to execute. Cisco owns a lot of baggage and the likely road of digesting this 'meal' by integrating it into its disarray of a wireless networking strategy will disaffect the very customer base Airespace built thus far. This acquisition will improve the fortunes of Trapeze, who's architecture best resembles Airespace, and possibly Siemens/Chantry - another Airespace-like implementation. For those knowing little about the differences between split-MAC and remote-MAC variants (see CAPWAP Taxonomy IETF draft), Aruba gets some boost.
Should this rumor come true - and I for one hope not - Cisco's best move is to follow their Linksys strategy and let them operate independently... maybe then the management team with the vision that brought Airespace this far will hang around and not orphan the customers who took up the challenge of going with new blood...
Permalink to Comment2. wifisky on January 7, 2005 4:50 PM writes...
Guess what? They are buying Airespace, and Aruba stands to gain the most out of the acquisition. Cisco approached Aruba first and they turned them down. Cisco is basically addressing the Aruba threat and validating their architecture by buying Airespace. Look for Cisco to buy Air Defense also. This is gonna be a fun year.
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