Optical gear maker Clearmesh up for sale

Optical Networking This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Learn best practices for extending your network architecture Access podcasts, whitepapers and more that offer best practices and principles for extending your architecture across a campus. Learn about the 6 design principles that will transform your campus net and how you can tackle the critical areas of integrated security, unified network services and more. Click here to read now! Network World's Optical Networking Newsletter, 06/04/07 Optical gear maker Clearmesh up for sale By Tim Greene Free-space optics vendor Clearmesh Networks is looking for somebody to buy the company. After the incubator firm that funded Clearmesh, Idealab, decided it was no longer “in its strategic interest” to continue support for Clearmesh, Clearmesh executives are seeking a partner to take over, says Clearmesh’s senior vice president of marketing Fima Vaisman. To help reduce drain on its capital, the company laid off 15 of its 25 workers last Friday. Vaisman says it is uncertain how long the company can last on its current resources. Network World LAN/WAN Buyer's Guide Find the right LAN/WAN products for your enterprise - fast. Our extensive database of detailed product information will help you quickly pinpoint what you need. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Buyer's Guide now. The company is still supporting customers, he says. The ideal buyer would be a firm either specializing in Wi-Fi mesh technology or security surveillance that needs higher bandwidth connections, Vaisman says. Clearmesh makes optical gear that is arranged in meshed networks. Other free-space optical equipment makers, such as Canon, arrange their devices in pairs for point-to-point connections that rely on line-of-sight between the points. Clearmesh devices can each support as many as three point-to-point links, making it possible to create meshes that go around obstacles such as buildings in cities. The devices also have radio-frequency backup to deal with free-space-optics’ nemesis, fog. When the fog is too thick for the lasers to pierce, the devices can fall back to radio-frequency connections at lower bandwidth.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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