Furthermore, what the second company had quoted for and worked on was not the complete design that MetaGeek really needed. In the end they not only baled us out, but gave us a better product with more features.” The ProcessĪltan examined the second company’s preliminary design, and immediately found a number of errors. “We also appreciate their candour and diligence in that they’d rather lose the job than overpromise or under-quote. “The first thing that comes to mind when I evaluate Altan’s contribution to our development project is that they are a team of consummate professionals”, says Brian Tuttle, COO at MetaGeek. Eventually, they decided to acknowledge their frustration with the second supplier, bite the bullet, and switch the project to Altan. Altan’s quotation was more than their larger rival, and so MetaGeek opted to save money – given their already much depleted development budget.Īfter several months without much tangible progress, MetaGeek had almost given up on wireless consulting company #2. Try AgainĪfter the local consultant debacle, MetaGeek sought quotations from several other wireless consultants, including Altan Technologies and one other large and reputable wireless consulting company. In the meantime, adding insult to injury, MetaGeek’s largest competitor was bought out by Cisco for millions of dollars. Additionally this first phase program wasted a lot of valuable team hours, and slowed MetaGeek’s progress in a highly competitive marketplace.
Initially they utilized the services of a local device development subcontractor, who was paid a lot of money and produced nothing useful. The company already had a product called the Wi-Spy 2.4x, capable of monitoring use of 2.45 GHz ISM band wireless devices.īefore engaging the services of Altan Technologies, MetaGeek suffered two major disappointments. MetaGeek had a mandate to produce a spectrum analyzer that would operate within the 5 GHz to 6 GHz band.
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