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Fusion and Marubeni VoWLAN Alliance Verify Colubris WLAN System Interoperates with FUSION IP-Phone Service Colubris WLAN System Selected for QoS, Security And Multiservice Capabilities

Ember, a wireless semiconductor solutions company which has emerged as the ZigBee market frontrunner, today became one of the first companies to earn official ZigBee-compliant status, according to the ZigBee Alliance. The certification is significant for Ember customers and partners because it brings a host of benefits, including: • ZigBee-compliant marketing and promotional validation for   their products, • assured interoperability with other vendor’s ZigBee-compliant   platform based products, • additional consumer credibility and market acceptance for    their products, and • assurance that their own end-user products will have to   undergo Continue reading →

Charley Lax is managing general partner of GrandBanks Capital, and also is a co-founder of both Softbank Capital Partners and Flatiron Partners. In 2002, GrandBanks participated on a Polaris Venture Partners-led financing for wireless networking company Ember Corp. Lax took an Ember board seat as part of the deal, joining existing director … Bob Metcalf, a general partner with Polaris Venture Partners. Metcalfe used to sit on the board of Nanosys Inc., alongside … Larry Bock, former chairman and CEO of Nanosys, who also is Continue reading →

Wi-Fi device and system company Colubris Networks Inc. said it has acquired Kiwi Networks Inc., a developer of Wi-Fi technologies and automated radio-frequency planning and control products, for an undisclosed amount. Kiwi had raised at least $1.5 million, a figure listed as “investment” in Kiwi on the Web site of investor Western Technology Investment. Barry Fougere, chief executive of Colubris, said in an interview that Kiwi had raised a Series A round of funding. He wouldn’t say how much Kiwi had raised overall, though he Continue reading →

Few doubt that Wi-Fi and WiMAX are burgeoning technologies with pots of gold at the end of the proverbial rainbow. Firms like start-up Colubris demonstrate the vitality of the industry on an almost daily basis. But, for every new company that pops onto the scene, there are several others bought, sold, traded and merged into an ever-changing competitive landscape. Even early-stage companies like Colubris cannot resist the feeding frenzy. Just today, WLAN system provider Colubris announced the acquisition of Kiwi Networks based in Campbell, California. Continue reading →

  Colubris Networks joined this week’s telecom merger-fest by acquiring Kiwi Networks, a supplier of advanced cellular technologies for next-generation Wi-Fi and WiMax deployment. The deal strengthens its portfolio of Wi-Fi and WiMax-based wireless local area network solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Colubris (Waltham, Mass.) expects to leverage the cellular Wi-Fi technologies and automated radio frequency planning and control products of Kiwi (Campbell, Calif.) for its enterprise and service provider customers. WLAN systems incorporating Kiwi’s technology are expected to ship in the Continue reading →

Enpocket Mobile Media Monitor UK reveals a mobile generation gap, widened by MMS

Wireless LAN switch vendor Colubris Networks inc has paid an undisclosed sum for Kiwi Networks Inc, an early-stage start-up developing advanced cellular WiFi technology around radio frequency management. John O’Hara, VP of engineering at Waltham, Massachusetts-based Colubris, said the company acquired Kiwi for two reasons. “Firstly, there is its ability to do very rapid frequency hopping and share packets across channels for long-range, high-bandwidth WiFi in the backhaul.” Kiwi, which hails from Cambpell, California, was in fact targeting a somewhat different market to Colubris, in Continue reading →

from The Wi-Fi Technology Forum

Colubris Networks, a vendor of wireless LAN access and management products near Boston, has announced its acquisition of Kiwi Networks, an early-stage company in Campbell, Calif., developing cellular and Wi-Fi solutions, including RF planning and control products for enterprises and service providers. Colubris Multiservice Wireless LAN systems incorporating Kiwi’s technology are expected to ship in the fourth calendar quarter of the year. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. “The problem Kiwi has focused on–enabling unlicensed spectrum to behave deterministically under load–will become increasingly Continue reading →