ArrayComm Spins A Shift in Strategy Away From iBurst

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http://techdirt.com/news/wireless/article/5171
Techdirt Corporate Intelligence said:
Contributed by Derek Kerton on Wednesday, March 2 2005 @ 3:55pm
In this good Unstrung article, Justin Springham covers the good news, and the bad news for ArrayComm. The good news is: Apparently there has been a major cash investment from a single mystery investor. The bad news is: apparently they are preparing the casket for their iBurst BWA technology. The technology has had limited traction, and was possibly ahead of its time. The complexity and high costs of installing an iBurst solution didn't appeal to network operators. The President and CEO also left last month. However, that's not to say there wasn't ample spin coming out of ArrayComm. Much like the french official who said Yassir Arafat was alive when he was quite possibly dead, an ArrayComm exec said, "We are getting the company back to its core business of putting its smart antenna technology into multiple wireless standards. At this point iBurst is our graduate student that's finished his PhD. We are now helping our other children." If that doesn't sound like spin, I don't know what does. On the other hand, we have felt for some time that the true value of ArrayComm's intellectual property lies in their smart antenna technology. We expect that (in due time) ArrayComm antenna solutions will figure in future versions of most wireless and cellular standards. Lastly, with the de-emphasis of iBurst, ArrayComm seems to be climbing on board the WiMAX wagon.
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Hmmm, reading between the lines, it indicates WBS users are little more than guinea pigs ...
 
A smart, forward looking company sold all this iBurst equipement (second hand) to WBS in the first place :)
(NEC Corporation of Japan is reported to have brokered the deal - but I don't know who the seller was).

Also:
playkiller no.2 said:
But as long as the Aussies still have Iburst,there shouldn`t be anything to worry about.
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Don't be so sure - A solution provided by Navini Networks, (offered by Unwired Australia) is currently the popular choice in Sydney.
It's a more robust solution and fast taking market share away from Personal Broadband Australia (iBurst).
 
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Even the Aussie market is not that big in world terms...I guess the Iburst technology will now not be developed and tweaked anymore....
 
No big deployments, no big investors backing it, and no more original CEO (who invented iBurst, btw).

I'm going to say that iBurst KIT is going to start getting very expensive, which will probably put GREAT brakes on WBS's further deployment of basestations in South Africa.
 
Kit?

TheRoDent said:
No big deployments, no big investors backing it, and no more original CEO (who invented iBurst, btw).

I'm going to say that iBurst KIT is going to start getting very expensive, which will probably put GREAT brakes on WBS's further deployment of basestations in South Africa.
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TEH RODENT
wats KIT?
 
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