Some of the Points Cahit and Craig Discussed

Portabella provides the market’s fastest broadband cellular connection by aggregating up to 5 cellular-data cards from any service provider into a single high-speed connection up to 15Mbps that can shared.

  Although not really for the consumer – Portabella primarily targets traveling sales teams, mobile or temporary offices (like construction sites etc.), maritime, and small businesses.

Unique is that large broadcasters and mobile news teams have taken particular interest in Portabella as a way to bypass traditional satellite uplinks (which are costly) in favor of using cellular to transmit live news back to headquarters.  Basically – news teams no longer need the huge satellite trucks.

Portabella comes with Ethernet ports which allows businesses to connect it to their wired network as a fail over system in case the primary wired connection like T1, DSL or cable fails.  Basically it gives businesses near 100% uptime in terms of Internet connection.

Portabella and wireless broadband bonding technology is the future of industries such as security camera and remote monitoring, transportation and specialty vehicles (buses, trains, taxis, limousines), mobile TV broadcasting, and POS/information kiosks (Internet kiosks, banks, gas stations, digital signage).

About Cahit

Before co-founding Mushroom Networks, Dr. Cahit Akin was a venture partner at ITU Ventures for 7 years, the venture capital arm of Brownstein Schnel Holdings which has invested in over 50 companies.

Previously, Dr. Akin has worked as a senior marketing consultant at a boutique marketing consultancy firm on Wall Street – New York. Dr. Akin has managed the Adaptive Systems Laboratory out of Cal-IT2, a $12 million project which spun off 2 venture backed startup companies.

He was the founder of Respectrum and he co-founded and invested in Mushroom Networks, Inc.

Dr. Akin received his Ph.D. and M.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey. Dr. Akin has worked on technical and research aspects of communications for over 10 years including several patents and many publications.

Dr. Akin was a nominee for the Most Admired CEO award by San Diego Business Journal. Dr. Akin is a recipient of the NATO Graduate Study Scholarship award and was a national team member for the International Mathematics Olympiad in 1993.

About Mushroom Networks

Mushroom Networks, Inc., is a privately held company based in San Diego, CA, providing patent pending broadband bonding solutions to a range of Internet connection applications. The company’s flagship product line targets SMBs, enterprises, multi-tenant buildings, and broadband service providers and bonds dissimilar broadband access technologies forming a single highly reliable broadband pipe that can easily scale based on needs.  Recently, Mushroom Networks was a recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s 2008 North American Product Innovation Award, a finalist for the coveted XCHANGE Tech Innovators Xcellence Award and 2007 CONNECT® ‘Most Innovative New Product’. For more information, please visit http://www.mushroomnetworks.com