MeshNetworks, Inc.

The high-speed Internet experience must and will be made mobile. MeshNetworks was founded with the vision that the mobile Internet should exploit the same proven architecture found in the wired Internet. This architecture is based on a distributed mesh network that supports broadband data speeds by leveraging routing intelligence at the edge of the network. By developing the same powerful mesh networking technology for mobile networks, we have created solutions that enable every user device to enhance and become part of the network that make the Mobile Internet more reliable, affordable and scalable than alternative solutions.

MeshNetworks has developed patented peer-to-peer routing technology which enables a mobile broadband solution that supports voice, video and data at speeds of up to 6Mbps. This creates a distributed, fully meshed architecture that breaks through the limitations of cell-based networks. Using advanced ad hoc routing techniques; MeshNetworks is the first company to bring the advantages of the Internet's self-forming, self-healing, self-balancing architecture to mobile networks. MeshNetworks goes beyond mobile Internet solutions by offering built-in geo-location capabilities, as well as full QoS management for voice and video. The result is the fastest, most efficient and cost-effective way to deploy mobile voice, video and high-bandwidth data services.

MeshNetworks has developed an extensive Intellectual Property portfolio of patented networking, geo-location and radio technologies for Wireless LAN (802.11), fixed and mobile broadband wireless networks. The company is offering this technology in the form of licenses, chipsets, software and turnkey product reference designs to OEMs, system integrators and network operators.

MeshNetworks also bypasses VARs who bring them valuable leads, like Lightspeed Internetworking. The City of Garland, Texas, USA put out an RFP to replace their emergency communications system. Lightspeed saw a fit with MEA for city mobile units, and an optical backhaul to solve Mesh's congestion/'wandering packet' problem, and so applied with MeshNetworks to be a VAR. So, to be clear, Lightspeed brings Mesh their largest potential deployment, 64 sqmi --and for true emergency services no less-- an opportunity which they wouldn't have known about otherwise, and Lightspeed sells it to the Garland CIO in a deal that could -make- Mesh.

MeshNetworks worked with Lightspeed for a while on the project, until Ed Ford of Mesh asked for the RFP. Lightspeed couldn't help wondering why MeshNetworks had not answered a number of rather technical questions about the system; Ed attributed it to need for the RFP. There was concern but he asked nicely, and so was trusted. It is MeshNetworks after all, right?

Then when MeshNetworks had the RFP, they instantly stopped responding to Lightspeed, and went in to bid direct on the Garland job!

Now, it's understandable if there isn't enough time to train in the Mesh way of doing things. But especially since this is a pivotal opportunity for them, which could make (or break) MeshNetworks, and since Lightspeed has a perfect symbiosis (with optical), participation would normally be expected in this $1mm deal, or at minimum a modest finder's fee. Because isn't it valuable to bring Garland and Mesh together, at least for Mesh? Instead, Mesh put their general counsel on Lightspeed to remove a trademark from the proposal, LOL!

Some feel this is dishonorable behavior, which should be recognized. There are other RF options as good as Mesh. And even [url=http://locustworld.com/]open meshnetworking projects[/url]. But when someone brings MeshNetworks the biggest deal of its history, and Ed screws them without a second thought, it should be a warning to all.