Proxim Wireless assets sold to Moseley Associates
Proxim has been struggling financially for a while, and today announced the sale of all assets to Moseley Associates.
Proxim is the current home of the former Lucent / Agere / Orinoco 802.11 product line, which were ubiquitous a few years ago as wireless LANs became popular and before “WiFi” was a marketing buzzword for a notebook computer feature. They also own the former Western Multiplex Tsunami point-to-point wireless product line, after merging with them a few years ago.
I’ve always liked their gear, but the WLAN market is totally commoditized now (Linksys, D-Link, and assorted white label manufacturers), the enterprise solutions seem to be moving toward solutions such as Aruba and Trango, and the longer haul point-to-point market hasn’t really taken off, partially due to all the noise about WiMax (which has yet to become a deployable solution).
Here’s what Proxim had to say to their customers about Moseley on their web site:
Moseley, the parent company of Microwave Data Systems (MDS), Axxcelera Broadband Wireless, CarrierComm, and Moseley Broadcast, provides industry-leading wireless solutions for both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint applications for the industrial (SCADA), broadcast, broadband enterprise and carrier marketplaces. Combining our product lines will enable us to offer a differentiated portfolio of products covering spectrum from 900 MHz to 38 GHz, bringing us much closer to number one position in the market with both licensed and unlicensed broadband, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX technology for an extremely broad spectrum range.
Well, that plus not totally going out of business. Hope they find a niche with some traction.
update 2005-07-20 15:47 Hmm. Terabeam is ending up with Proxim instead.
Tags: wireless, business, wifi
