Airgo Networks Launches the Next Generation in WLAN

For the past year and a half I've been working at a start-up in Palo Alto called Airgo Networks. Today, Airgo made it's first announcements about what we are doing. You can see a piece in the Silicon Valley section of the San Jose Mercury News Here is a quote from the article:

Airgo, which has been in stealth mode for the past two years, is finally jumping into the fray of wireless-fidelity (WiFi) chip companies, a market bursting with competitors, deep in hype and hurting from price erosion. As the computing industry has embraced WiFi -- which accesses networks wirelessly from a notebook or PC -- giants such as Intel and Cisco Systems have also entered the market. ``There is so much noise in the wireless industry that we wanted to wait until we were ready,'' Raleigh said. ``We want to underpromise and overdeliver.'' Today, Airgo will begin shipping samples of its WiFi chip sets and cards to potential customers. Raleigh said the company has customers, but would not name them until the companies introduce their Airgo-based products. ``I think it is going to alter the landscape of 802.11,'' said Nick Sturiale, a partner at Sevin Rosen Funds in Palo Alto, an investor in Airgo. ``It will just work. You won't have problems with dead spots, getting connections. It will really make wireless performance more like wire-line performance.''

You can also see the Airgo Press release here.