May 2008
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In This Issue
- SkyPilot Raises Additional Funding
- Dennis Stipati Joins as VP, Worldwide Sales
- Gordon Wilcox Joins as Sales Director, APAC
- SkyPilot certifies 5.25-5.35 and 5.45-5.725 GHz
- SkyControl version 1.6 available for beta
SkyPilot Raises Additional Funding
Earlier this month, SkyPilot closed an additional $3.4M of combined financing since our last public financing announcement. This, in addition to the $68M of previous financing, brings our total raised to $71M. You can read more about this via our press release at http://www.skypilot.com/newsevents/pr/pr_042908a.php.
Dennis Stipati Joins as VP, Worldwide Sales
We are pleased to announce that Dennis Stipati has joined us as our new vice president of worldwide sales. Dennis has a long history with broadband wireless including 17 years at Motorola, where he led the EMEA and APAC sales teams for the Canopy product line and the Americas sales teams for the Orthogon product line. Most recently, Dennis served as vice president of sales at Exalt, an equipment vendor of wireless point-to-point products.
More about Dennis joining SkyPilot can be found in our press release at http://www.skypilot.com/newsevents/pr/pr_042908b.php. He can be reached directly at dstipati@skypilot.com.
Gordon Wilcox Joins as Sales Director, APAC
We are also pleased to announce that Gordon Wilcox has joined as the sales director for the Asia/Pacific (APAC) region. Gordon is another former Motorola sales director that worked with the Canopy and Orthogon product lines. Gordon is based in Bangkok, Thailand and can be reached at gwilcox@skypilot.com.
SkyPilot certifies 5.25-5.35 and 5.45-5.725 GHz
All of SkyPilot's products have recently been certified by the FCC to operate in the 5.25-5.35 and 5.45-5.725 GHz frequency bands in the United States. This allows US-based wireless ISPs to build broadband wireless networks in frequency bands with a lot of available spectrum that is usually "cleaner" than the crowded 5.725-5.85 GHz spectrum.
SkyControl version 1.6 available for beta
SkyControl version 1.6 is now available for beta testing. The latest version has some important improvements, many designed to improve the performance and responsiveness of managing the SkyPilot broadband wireless network. A few notable enhancements include:
- Static database table caching minimizes direct database queries, thereby dramatically improving server performance and client response and resulting in the ability to manage and monitor a network with up to 3,000 active nodes.
- Trap-based notification provides timely and accurate network status without requiring periodic polling, thereby greatly reducing management load and improving performance.
- Failover redundancy automatically synchronizes a primary SkyControl server with a secondary mirror image and in case of a malfunction, the secondary SkyControl server takes over as the primary server.
- Mass management support for nodes under all domains, particular domain, frequency and group of selected nodes.
- Batch provisioning performs bulk modifications and spreadsheet format reports for all the views useful for inventory management and network analysis.
- Improved user interface with additional web interface capabilities including:
- Node grouping based on Domain, Frequency, Gateway, Extender, etc.
- Node data such as RSSI, Modulation, Throughput, etc., displayed against each node in the SkyControl tree view. Thresholds can be defined based on that data along with severity-based color coding.
- "Flat view" to easily sort the nodes based on MAC, IP, Throughput, etc., and export them to spreadsheet files.
- Access Point client view to display the list of clients connected to an AP, SSID, and frequency band.
- Node Info view to display all the node related data like Part Number, Serial Number, Active, Backup and AP Images, Boot Rom version, System Uptime, etc., along with the ability to export this data into a spreadsheet.
Login to the SkyPilot Support site to download the beta version of SkyControl.
