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01/06/2005: "Vivato's management claims"

Says here At the core of Vivato is a skilled and experienced executive team comprised of veterans of successful companies: Xircom, AirTouch/Vodafone, Hewlett Packard, Agilent, Texas Instruments, Intel, Aironet and Alcatel integrating the disciplines of local area networks, high performance packet switching, wireless wide area network deployment, RF and antenna design as well as IC design.

Lets check:
Xircom: Nope. (Biba, Belanger)
Airtouch/Vodaphone: The site claims Raj, but Raj has left the building
Aironet: Nope. (Belanger)
HP/Agilent: Nobody listed on the page, but Crilly counts, I suppose.
Texas Instruments: I see no evidence.
Intel: I don't see it. Siavash Alamouti (once CTO at Vivato) went to Intel after Vivato.
Alcatel: Our friend, Don.

What isn't mentioned is the very strong Ex-Proxim contingent at Vivato these days. Not only is Brad Kolb ex-Proxim, but Art Coleman, who is now "VP of Engineering" is also (directly) from Proxim, and brought with him a staff of fellow Proxim software refugees (internally referred to as 'the hotels', because one of them is named "Hilton Hong"), who are all located in the San Mateo office, with Art, and everyone else on the management team, save DeMarche, who lives in Colorado.

Proxim's stock doesn't do that well.

Proxim was the last of the big WLAN vendors to come around to Wi-Fi (802.11b). In fact, the company launched a vicious patent infringement suit against nearly everyone in Wi-Fi (including Wayport), in early 2001, only to be crushed in response by the combined weight of Cisco (via their Aironet acquisition), Agilent (nee: Lucent) and Intersil. When Proxim started to go into freefall, these who could find a parachute got off the plane.