The big N+I show is this week...and what's the news? I'm not at N+I, though I suppose I should go some year. The pre-show buzz was that seven companies would be showing wireless LAN switches, only two of which had preannounced (Trapeze and, I think, Vivato). As a one-man band here at Wi-Fi Networking News, the amount of news is so overwhelming, that I'll be waiting for the summaries in the enterprise trade pubs and link to them with my usual analysis instead of trying to overview every last WLAN switch that appears -- unless there's something unique.
I have spent some time talking to the people at Vivato and the technology seems sound. They may very well have a good solution for WISP operators like us. They offer a robust system that allows us to use less access points and get a little more clever about our network design pre-install. Better signal strength, pervasiveness, etc. have real payoffs in lowering capital expenditure and happier clients.
We wish them well.