Total funding: $1.3 million Angel Round; $6 million (total) Series A Round - $2 million completed by First Ventury; up to $4 million open for strategic investors.
Competitors
Meru Networks, Video 54, Propigate Networks
Product Description
Rotani’s AirReferee™ is a next-generation wireless access point and client design that makes wireless LANs interference-resistant. The AirReferee™ technology solves interference, making wireless networks truly scalable. It also sustains radio performance in real-life conditions, providing consistent high-quality links required for multimedia networking. Rotani’s product is backward compatible with standard 802.11a/b/g clients. And it provides a cost-effective, easy to implement product that is fundamental to all 802.11 wireless networks.
Market Opportunity
By 2008, there will be 98 million home networks and 458 million network-capable devices. Rotani’s patented pending AirReferee technology solves interference, sustains radio performance and provides the throughput required for online gaming, VoIP, video conferencing, audio/video streaming and downloads . . . and data.
DEMO Says
In the wonderful world of Wi-Fi, channel overlap is becoming a significant problem, particularly in densely populated residential and office complexes. Most schemes to attenuate the signal to prevent overlap often diminish overall system performance. Rotani has developed innovative antenna architecture that allocates channels to avoid overlap and provide sustainable network performance. It’s a simple, low-cost solution that should be a part of every Wi-Fi router.
Roc Lastinger, President; Nicholas Funke, Executive Vice President, Business Development; John Spenik, Director, Software Engineering; Brian Woodbury, Director, Hardware Engineering