Sunday, February 16, 2003

Vivato Introduces Indoor Wi-Fi Switch for 300m reach

Vivato, a start-up based in San Francisco, introduced a 2.4 GHz Indoor Wi-Fi Switch that provides an indoor range of up to 300 meters with standard Wi-Fi clients. The Vivato switch is a flat panel unit, which resembles a plasma television screen, operates in the 2.4 GHz frequency band and delivers three simultaneous beams of Wi-Fi. Designed to be wall-mounted, the panel employs Vivato's PacketSteering technology to dynamically shape very narrow beams, about nine degrees each, which transmit and receive Wi-Fi on a packet-by-packet basis to maximize capacity and minimize interference. A single switch can support about 150 enterprise users-tracking active users as they move about the office within its 100-degree field of view. The list price is $8,995.
http://www.vivato.net