Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Firetide Names New CEO

Firetide, a start-up developing mesh technology for wireless instant networks, named Bo Larsson as CEO. Larsson most recently served as CEO of Emuzed, a developer of multimedia products and technologies. Previously, he was CEO and co-founder of Touchwave, a startup delivering distributed voice and data services and solutions using VoIP.


Firetide recently began shipping its HotPoint Wireless Mesh Router for enterprise applications. The products use advanced routing technologies and IEEE 802.11-compliant radios to "unwire" the Ethernet backhaul and provide portable Ethernet ports. Firetide is based in Los Gatos, California and Honolulu, Hawaii. http://www.firetide.com