To: Denise Fabek who wrote (7263 ) 4/15/1998 2:02:00 PM From: Harry_Behemoth Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 34592
A potential daytrade is MSEL. News just out Raytheon Wireless Solutions Announces Distribution Partnership With Merisel Business Wire - April 15, 1998 13:47 %RAYTHEON-WIRELESS %MERISEL MSEL %MASSACHUSETTS %COMED %COMPUTERS %ELECTRONICS %TELECOMMUNICATIONS V%BW P%BW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 1998--In a move which further expands its strategic channel partners program, Raytheon Wireless Solutions today announced an agreement with Merisel, Inc. to distribute its Raylink wireless local area network (LAN) product family to resellers throughout the U.S. Raylink enables companies to build and extend their corporate LAN infrastructures easily and cost effectively. "We're pleased to be partnering with Raytheon," said Art Merkin, Merisel's vice president, Technical Products Division. "The addition of Raytheon's wireless products expands Merisel's standards-based wireless offering and provides our resellers with turnkey, competitively priced LAN solutions." John Langley, product line general manager for Raytheon Wireless Solutions, said, "We view this distribution partnership as our response to the increased demand we have seen in our wireless LAN offerings, as well as to the rapidly expanding wireless LAN sector. Raytheon is delighted to be joining forces with one of the computer industry's leading wholesale distributors and we look forward to a long and mutually successful partnership with Merisel." Designed to the IEEE 802.11 standard, the Raylink family is a 2Mbps wireless LAN solution based on frequency hopping spread spectrum technology. Leveraging Raytheon's leadership in radio and wireless communications technology, the Raylink family offers outstanding performance, simplicity, and power efficiency for today's mobile and wireless applications including in-building roaming workers, temporary workgroups, point-of-sale terminals, inventory management, and peer-to-peer networks. The Raylink solution is comprised of the Raylink PC Card, a wireless LAN adapter (PCMCIA Type II-E), and the Raylink Access Point, a wireless LAN-to-Ethernet bridge.