Airespace, Inc. Formerly Black Storm Networks, Inc. Industry Computer networking Founded 2001; 23 years ago (2001 ) in San Jose, California Founder Pat Calhoun Bob Friday Bob O'Hara Ajay Mishra Defunct March 2005 (2005-03 ) Fate Acquired by Cisco Systems
Airespace, Inc. , formerly Black Storm Networks , was a networking systems company founded in 2001, manufacturing wireless access points and Controllers . The company developed the AP-Controller model for fast deployment and the Lightweight Access Point Protocol , the precursor to the CAPWAP protocol.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Corporate history
Airespace was founded in 2001 by Pat Calhoun,[ 4] Bob Friday,[ 5] Bob O'Hara,[ 6] : 70 and Ajay Mishra.[ 7] The company was venture backed by Storm Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners , Fidelity Investments, and Battery Ventures .[ 8] In 2003, it entered into an agreement to provide OEM equipment to NEC .[ 9] In 2004 it signed an agreement with Alcatel and Nortel to provide equipment to the two companies on an OEM basis.[ 10] [ 11] : 8
Airespace was first to market with integrated location tracking.[ 12] Within a year and a half, the company grew rapidly into the market leader of enterprise Wi-Fi.[ 13]
Cisco Systems acquired Airespace in 2005 for $450 million;[ 14] this was one of 13 acquisitions Cisco made that year and the largest up to that point.[ 15] Airespace products were merged into Cisco Aironet product line.[ 16]
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^ Hochmuth, Phil (January 12, 2005). "Cisco nets Airespace for $450 million" . Network World . Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
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