Wireless Solution Providers

 

This list of solution providers is offered as a service to visitors. It includes examples of solution providers offering wireless related software, hardware and services. It does not attempt to represent all of the wireless solution providers on the market. Inclusion of a provider does not imply an endorsement by Clarity Consulting, nor does exclusion imply any negative opinion.

You can use this list as a starting point for your own research. Because the wireless technology market is evolving, with providers entering and exiting the market, getting acquired and changing their positioning and offerings, it is recommended that you perform up-to-date research yourself.

Based on visitor interest, we will maintain and periodically update this list. Solution providers who wish to be added or removed, or to update their reference, should contact us.

Device and Accessory Manufacturers

WLAN Providers

Middleware Providers -- enabling services, platforms and tools

Wireless Application Providers

Wireless System Integrators

Wide Area Network Service Providers

 

Device and Accessory Manufacturers

Casio

www.casio.com

Casio makes personal PC devices including Pocket PC and Windows CE devices, sub-notebooks, industrial devices, Pocket viewers, Pocket managers, and a variety of peripherals and accessories.

Dell

www.dell.com

Dell sells its Pocket PC PDA, the Axim, along with accessories such as its TrueMobile WLAN cards for PCs.

Ericsson

www.ericsson.com

Through marketing agreements with third-party handset manufacturers, Ericsson offers mobile phone handsets and smart phones.

Fujitsu

www.ftxs.fujitsu.com

Fujitsu sells various user devices (especially pen tablets) including the iPAD and TeamPad models, and accessories.

Garmin

www.garmin.com

Garmin produces GPS navigation and communications products for the aviation and consumer markets.

Hewlett-Packard

www.hp.com

Hewlett-Packard offers the iPAQ line of Pocket PCs as well as notebook and tablet PCs.

IBM

www.ibm.com

IBM offers notebooks (ThinkPad) and resells Palmone handheld devices.

Intermec

www.intermec.com

Intermec sells ruggedized, intelligent handheld devices, with RF capabilities, for automated data collection in the manufacturing, retail, warehousing, transportation and healthcare.

Itronix

www.itronix.com

Itronix primarily targets the field service industry with its GoBook line of tablet PCs, PDAs and rugged notebook computers, all with integrated wireless communications capabilities.

Kyocera

www.kyocera.com

Kyocera produces mobile phone handsets and smart phones.

Lowrance

www.lowrance.com

Lowrance sells GPS devices and accessories.

Magellan

www.magellangps.com

Magellan makes a variety of handheld GPS devices, vehicle navigation systems and GPS accessories.

Motorola

www.motorola.com

Motorola offers phone handsets, two-way radios, pagers, accessories, GPS products, embedded computer products, mobile data terminals (both handheld and in-vehicle), and a variety of public safety applications.

NEC

www.nec.com

NEC makes mobile phone handsets.

Nokia

www.nokia.com

Nokia manufactures mobile phone handsets including the Communicator series of smart phones.

Palmone

www.palmone.com

Palmone manufactures a variety of handheld PDAs (Tungsten, Zire), smartphones (Treo), and accessories, based on the Palm operating system produced by Palmsource.

Panasonic

www.panasonic.com

Panasonic sells ruggedized (Toughbook) and regular notebook computers.

Qualcomm

www.qualcomm.com

Qualcomm offers closed-loop fleet management solutions that include satellite or digital communications capabilities, application software, handheld computers (OmniTRACS, OmniExpress) and in-vehicle units (MVPc). Qualcomm is also the maker of BREW, a wireless application platform for mobile phones, and CDMA technologies used in 3G WANs.

Research in Motion (RIM)

www.rim.com

RIM manufactures and sells handheld devices based upon its Blackberry wireless platform with integrated email capabilities. RIM typically sells its devices as part of a package that includes email software, synchronization software, and real-time, nationwide wireless network access through various partners.

Samsung

www.samsung.com

Samsung makes mobile phones and notebook computers.

Sharp Electronics

www.sharp-usa.com

Sharp offers notebooks, handheld PCs and PDAs including the Zaurus line of Linux-based PDAs.

Sony

www.sony.com

Sony offers handheld PCs and PDAs, including the Clié series, and notebooks such as the Vaio line.

Symbol Technologies

www.symbol.com

Symbol Technologies makes a variety of handheld terminals, pen computers and wearable units with built in wireless communications capabilities, with strengths in bar code scanning technology and automated data collection devices.

Think Outside

www.thinkoutside.com

Think Outside makes accessories and add-ons for PDAs, including its Stowaway folding keyboard.

Toshiba

www.toshiba.com

Toshiba is a leading maker of notebook computers, tablet PCs, and handheld Pocket PC devices.

Sierra Wireless

www.sierrawireless.com

Sierra Wireless makes wireless PC cards, including the AirCard line, for WLAN and WAN connectivity. It also recently introduced a mobile phone, the Voq.

Socket Communications

www.socketcom.com

Socket Communications provides a variety of cards and attachments for handheld devices and notebook computers to enable WLAN, Bluetooth, Ethernet, GPS and bar code capabilities.

 

WLAN Providers

3Com

www.3com.com

3Com offers WLAN and Bluetooth products as well as accessories, mostly to the small business and home market.

Alvarion

www.alvarion.com

Alvarion offers broadband wireless access products to the enterprise market, including the BreezeNET family of WLAN products.

Apple

www.apple.com

Apple makes the Airport 802.11x WLAN product for Apple computer users.

Avaya

www.avaya.com

Avaya markets WLAN access points to enterprise customers.

Belkin

www.belkin.com

Belkin offers WLAN access points, routers and WLAN network cards, primarily for the home market.

Cisco

www.cisco.com

Cisco offers the Aironet series of end-to-end enterprise WLAN products.

D-Link

www.dlink.com

D-link offers WLAN products for the small business and home markets.

Enterasys

www.enterasys.com

Enterasys offers the RoamAbout end-to-end enterprise WLAN products.

Foundry Networks

www.foundrynetworks.com

Foundry Networks sells WLAN access points and management software.

Hewlett-Packard

www.hp.com

HP markets some WLAN access points and controllers, mostly to small and medium-sized businesses.

Intel

www.intel.com

Intel offers the PRO/Wireless LAN product line, in addition to chipsets used in a wide variety of wireless devices and equipment.

Intermec

www.intermec.com

Intermec offers the MobileLAN family of WLAN access points, and associated security and management software.

Linksys

www.linksys.com

Linksys, a division of Cisco, provides home, small business and office networking kits.

Netgear

www.netgear.com

Netgear offers small businesses and consumers a full range of WLAN products (access points, gateways, adapters, cards).

Nortel Networks

www.nortelnetworks.com

Nortel offers a WLAN solution -- access point, security switch and network card – primarily for small businesses.

Proxim

www.proxim.com

Proxim sells a variety of broadband wireless and WLAN products including the ORiNOCO WLAN line.

RadioLAN

www.radiolan.com

RadioLAN provides long-range, wireless bridges for campus use.

Raylink

www.raylink.com

Working in conjunction with Raytheon RF Networking, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, Raylink provides WLAN products primarily for small businesses.

Symbol Technologies

www.symbol.com

Symbol Technologies offers a WLAN access point and switch.

 

Middleware Providers -- enabling services, platforms and tools

Adobe Systems

www.adobe.com

Adobe provides software, including its well-known Acrobat Reader, to download and view PDF files on Palm OS-based devices.

Air2Web

www.air2web.com

Air2Web licenses, and hosts, a wireless application development and delivery environment called the Mobile Internet Platform that provides access to back-end systems and data.

Aligo

www.aligo.com

Aligo offers its Omni Mobile software platform to develop and deliver mobile applications to more than 4,400 different mobile devices.

AvantGo

www.avantgo.com

AvantGo, a wireless service provided by iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase, provides mobile access to web-based content.

Broadbeam

www.broadbeam.com

Broadbeam offers the ExpressQ wireless platform for field service operations, and the Mobile Solutions System platform for design, development and delivery of mobile applications.

Extended Systems

www.extendedsystems.com

Extended Systems offers a range of software solutions covering mobile PIM (email and synchronization) and mobile field workers (sales, pharmaceutical and field service), a mobility platform for developing and deploying mobile applications, and software kits for Bluetooth, SyncML and IrDA application development.

IBM

www.ibm.com

IBM offers various software products to assist in creating a mobile application environment. Its WebSphere Transcoding Publisher product adapts and delivers web content to mobile devices.

Jacada

www.jacada.com

Jacada's Integrator and Interface Server products web-enable legacy applications and provide transaction access (via XML, COM and Java) as a first step to deployment on mobile devices.

JP Mobile

www.jpmobile.com

JP Mobile offers the SureWave Mobile Server to synchronize and connect mobile devices to enterprise legacy platforms and applications.

Mapinfo

www.mapinfo.com

Mapinfo supplies location-based software and technology for mobile applications.

Microsoft

www.microsoft.com

Microsoft creates operating system software for Pocket PC and Windows CE devices, and offers the Mobile Information Server to serve applications and contents to mobile devices.

Pumatech

www.pumatech.com

Pumatech offers a variety of synchronization tools to deliver content to mobile devices.

Sun Microsystems

www.sun.com

Sun offers Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), a programming language for mobile devices.

Wavelink

www.wavelink.com

Wavelink offers a platform to develop and manage wireless applications. It also offers applications to monitor and manage WLANs, and to push updates to wireless devices.

Xcellenet

www.xcellenet.com

Xcellenet offers its Afaria software to deploy and manage mobile devices, applications and contents from a central location.

 

Wireless Application Providers

All of the vendors listed below offer some type of wireless application functionality. They may license the software to enterprises, host it themselves, or offer a combination of the two.

724 Solutions

www.724solutions.com

724 Solutions provides mobile solutions to network operators, allowing them to rapidly deploy next-generation IP-based network and data services, as well as a series of mobile actionable alerting solutions to financial institutions.

Aether Systems

www.aethersystems.com

Aether provides wireless data software infrastructure, applications and services primarily to the transportation and government industries.

APRIVA

www.apriva.com

APRIVA offers its APRIVA Talk environment to enable companies to design, develop and deploy wireless solutions on a variety of network and devices. In addition, APRIVA offers pre-packaged, customizable mobile point-of-sale, freight tracking, customer acquisition and subscription software applications.

Antenna Software

www.antennasoftware.com

Antenna offers and develops software to integrate Web, wireless and supply chain technologies. Its ServiceTools product is a field service management solution that connects service managers, technicians, inventory managers and customers in real time.

Datria Systems

www.datria.com

Datria Systems offers voice enabled mobile solutions to collect data and information in the field. It also offers an application studio to develop and deploy voice-based applications.

Everypath

www.everypath.com

Everypath provides mobile task automation software that delivers SFA, field force, supply chain and other business applications and data to mobile devices. It also offers an application development platform.

FieldCentrix

www.fieldcentrix.com

FieldCentrix offers field force automation software that assists technicians in diagnosing and solving problems.

Infowave

www.infowave.com

Infowave provides the Wireless Business Engine to connect the mobile workforce to corporate application such as email, Web-based applications, the Internet, corporate intranets and client/server applications.

Oracle

www.oracle.com

Oracle's products include a business-oriented mobile portal, a wireless application server and an eBusiness suite. The products provide remote wireless access to email, databases and Oracle's ERP and CRM software.

Psion

www.psion.com

Psion offers enterprise e-mail applications for Sybmian-OS based mobile phones.

Syclo

www.syclo.com

Syclo offers its Smart software suite to mobile field workers and technicians, to help in asset and inventory management, field audits of equipment, capturing equipment readings in the field, applying corrective maintenance and enabling communication between field techs and dispatchers.

Vaultus

www.vaultus.com

Vaultus offers a rapid application development environment as well as a robust mobile client fully integrated with a production environment. The Mobility suite includes tools to design, develop, operate and administrate mobile applications and to pre-built connectors to integrate mobile and enterprise applications.

Viryanet

www.viryanet.com

Viryanet offers mobile workforce management software aimed at automating field service processes such as scheduling, dispatch, work order completion, etc.

 

Wireless System Integrators

Although many IT service companies have some level of wireless or mobile competence, the companies listed below have strong wireless integration practices and experience, and many even focus exclusively on wireless and mobile project and integration work.

ArcStream Solutions

www.arcstream.com

ArcStream is a wireless system integrator, focusing on creating and deploying mobile and wireless applications for enterprises in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, education, utilities, insurance and other industries. It offers strategy consulting, systems development and integration expertise.

Ascend Mobility

www.ascendmobility.com

Ascend offers the gamut of design, implementation and integration services, as well as business consulting and project management services.

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

www.us.cgey.com

Cap Gemini offers mobile business model consulting, research and analysis, wireless channel integration, mobile payment and trading systems integration, and security and authentication.

Deloitte & Touche

www.deloitte.com

Deloitte provides systems integration and strategy consulting as part of its mobile and wireless practice.

IBM Global Services

www.ibm.com

IBM provides mobile and wireless consulting and integration services.

Questra

www.questra.com

Using its own development platform, Questra creates custom mobile applications for its clients that focus on monitoring, diagnosing, replenishing, managing and servicing remote, intelligent devices.

 

Wide Area Network Service Providers

Aeris.net

www.aeris.net

Aeris.net develops and markets two-way technologies that enable wireless connectivity and control of remote, intelligent devices (telemetry).

Arch Wireless

www.archwireless.com

Arch Wireless provides wireless two-way data services including email and instant text messaging.

AT&T Wireless

www.attwireless.com

AT&T Wireless offers wireless voice and data services using TDMA and next generation GSM/GPRS technologies.

Boingo

www.boingo.com

Boingo offers WiFi Internet access, on a subscription basis, in public "hot spots" such as airports, hotels and coffee shops.

Cingular Wireless

www.cingular.com

A joint venture between SBC and BellSouth, Cingular Wireless provides wireless voice and data services, including corporate e-mail service, through its GPRS, EDGE and Mobitex packet data networks.

GlobalStar

www.globalstar.com

Globalstar offers global, mobile satellite telecommunications services, as well as satellite phone handsets.

Hughes Network Systems

www.hns.com

Hughes Network Systems provides broadband satellite network solutions, including Internet access services, for businesses and consumers.

Inmarsat

www.inmarsat.com

Inmarsat is a mobile satellite communications operator offering services through various resellers and distributors.

Iridium

www.iridium.com

Using satellites operated by Boeing, Iridium provides mobile satellite data and voice solutions.

Mblox

www.mblox.com

Mblox provides global SMS infrastructure services to enterprises and consumers.

Metrocall

www.metrocall.com

Metrocall is a wireless messaging provider offering paging, SMS and email services to subscribers.

Nextel

www.nextel.com

Using iDEN technology developed by Motorola, Nextel provides wireless communications services built upon its all digital network.

Orbcomm

www.orbcomm.com

Orbcomm offers satellite data services, sold through resellers, to track, monitor and manage remote assets.

Skytel

www.skytel.com

A subsidiary of WorldCom, Skytel provides traditional paging, text messaging, interactive two-way messaging, wireless email and wireless telemetry services.

Sprint

Sprint Wireless Broadband

Sprint Wireless Broadband offers 3G and 4G wireless voice and data services using CDMA technology.

Teledesic

www.teledesic.com

Teledesic is building a satellite-based network to offer broadband Internet access and expects to offer service through resellers starting in 2005.

T-Mobile

www.tmobile.com

T-Mobile is a wireless service provider offering digital voice, messaging and high-speed wireless data services to the U.S. market.

Verizon Wireless

www.verizonwireless.com

Verizon Wireless offers a variety of wireless voice and data services in the U.S. through its all digital network.