InformationWeek > Taking Stock > Taking Stock: ParkerVision Spots Opportunity In LANs > December 6, 2004
InformationWeek > Taking Stock > Taking Stock: ParkerVision Spots Opportunity In LANs > December 6, 2004Taking Stock: ParkerVision Spots Opportunity In LANs Dec. 6, 2004
If sales ramp up, the company's cash burn rate should decline.
By William Schaff
Ever have trouble with your wireless LAN? The signal doesn't reach to the far end of your house, perhaps? Or you can't get a signal from the wireless router located in the room next door? There's a new product on the market from a small company called ParkerVision that promises to solve most of these problems.
ParkerVision has been around since 1989 but recently left the high-end video business and fully committed to the wireless market, initially focusing on wireless LANs. With an ordinary wireless LAN, the signal is transmitted using analog radio-frequency technology. ParkerVision's version utilizes a digital technology, which it calls Direct2Digital or D2D. ParkerVision's wireless LAN works at distances up to a mile in open-field outdoor tests, which is quite a bit more than the 1,500 feet a normal consumer-oriented wireless LAN could reach. By the time a conventional wireless LAN is set up in your home, the range may be down to as little as 20 to 40 feet, according to the company.
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