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Chantry Networks forms technical advisory board to guide company in WLAN market
BOSTON - July 14, 2003 - Chantry Networks, the provider of the world's first large-scale routed wireless LAN (WLAN) solution, the BeaconWorks™ family of products, today announced the formation of the Chantry Networks Technical Advisory Board. The Board is initially comprised of Brian O'Higgins, vice president, CTO and founder of Entrust Technologies, Manickam Sridhar, CTO and vice president, development at Sitara Networks and Mehmet Unsoy, former chief architect, mmO2. These networking industry experts have a combined total of more than 100 years of product and technology expertise, and will provide Chantry with additional market and technical knowledge as the company develops solutions for the wireless marketplace.
"Our advisory board is intended to help shape the future of Chantry's technology as well as assist us as we address even more sophisticated customer requirements and the changing role of wireless," said Peter Vicars, president and CEO of Chantry Networks. "With the guidance offered by our technical advisory board, we are focusing on the advantages offered by a routed IP architecture, setting the stage for widespread adoption of WLAN technology."
A routed IP architectureÑthe same architecture that serves as the foundation for the InternetÑcombined with WLAN virtualization, delivers unprecedented levels of scalability and availability, far in excess of any other WLAN solutions - making the adoption of wireless networking faster, easier, and more cost-effective than ever before.
Chantry's BeaconWorks family of products consists of the BeaconMaster™ centralized controller and BeaconPoint' 802.11a/b/g access points. BeaconMaster controllers aggregate all access points - BeaconPoints as well as third-party access points - into what appears as individual, centrally managed IP subnets to the rest of the network. This, coupled with the controller's full routing capabilities, allows Chantry's BeaconWorks to address the main obstacles to widespread deployment of WLAN technologies.
About the Chantry Technical Advisory Board Members
Brian O'Higgins, Vice President and CTO and Founder of Entrust Technologies
Mr. O'Higgins is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Entrust, a leading Internet Security company. He has overall responsibility for the technology vision and direction for the company. Previously, at Nortel, he established the Secure Networks group in 1993 that was the predecessor of Entrust. Prior to this, he was with Bell-Northern Research, which he joined in 1979. Brian is perhaps best known for coining the term and introducing PKI technology into the security field.
Manickam Sridhar, CTO and Vice President, Development, Sitara Networks Inc.
Manickam Sridhar (Sri) brings a rich background of leading-edge product design from Motorola and GTE. While at Motorola, Sri led the product development teams for many of their successful communications products. His creative ingenuity has led to ownership of nineteen U.S. patents in high-speed modem, multimedia, and networking technologies, with additional patents pending.
Mehmet Unsoy, Former Chief Architect, mmO2
Dr. Mehmet Unsoy has close to 30 years of data and IP communication experience. He currently serves on the Technical/Executive Advisory Boards of twelve wireless technology start-up companies and is technical advisor to a number of venture capital companies that invest in the wireless industry. Most recently, he was vice president, chief wireless architect for mmO2/BT Wireless. He has also held senior positions at British Telecom (BT), Nortel Networks and Bell Northern Research (BNR.). He completed his Ph.D. on Arpanet, where he helped to build Datapac, the first public packet data network in Canada.
About Chantry Networks
Chantry Networks is the creator of BeaconWorks, the world's first large-scale routed wireless LAN (WLAN) solution and a Best of Show Finalist at NetWorld+Interop 2003. Offering unprecedented scalability and availability, coupled with unique network virtualization features, BeaconWorks overcomes the obstacles inherent in traditional WLAN systems to provide enterprises and service providers with the first economical and practical solution for building seamless and pervasive wireless networks. Founded in April of 2002, Chantry Networks has offices in Boston and Toronto, and is backed by top-tier investors including Flagship Ventures, Primaxis Technology Ventures, Venture Coaches, and Ventures West.
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