October 24, 2005 - eWeek
Reva Expands Users' RFID Options
Reva Systems, a newly launched RFID networking company, announced its Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP), an offering that amounts to a rack-mounted, standards-based device for managing facilitywide radio-frequency identification readers...
October 20, 2005 - RFID Update
Reva Releases Reader Management Device
Reva Systems this week unveiled it first product, the Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP). Designed to assuage the persistent complexity and high cost of today's deployments, the TAP is a 1U, rack-mountable device that allows the management of RFID readers across a facility. RFID Update spoke with Reva CEO and co-founder Ashley Stephenson about the new product...
October 19, 2005 - AMR Research Alert
RFID Device Management: The Dilemma Is Getting Solutions
One of the most pressing concerns of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) early adopters is that current technology and deployment topology will not scale to support an enterprise rollout. Companies are fairly comfortable that the current configuration will manage the existing pilots that are supporting customer compliance. However, moving from one Distribution Center (DC) and a few stores to 20 DCs and 1,000 stores requires a completely different level of scalability, reliability, and manageability....
October 19, 2005 - Managing Automation
Startup Delivers Network Appliance to Ease RFID Deployments, Management
Moving to phase-two of its start-up plan, emerging company Reva Systems yesterday introduced a network appliance that it says will help manufacturers and other companies more cost effectively implement, scale and manage RFID deployments within and across distributed computing environments...
October 19, 2005 - RFID Journal
Reva Taps into Reader Networks
Reva Systems, a startup that develops solutions for managing networks of RFID readers, has announced its first product: the Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP). Designed to act as a central command post for numerous networks of RFID interrogators (readers), the TAP is a rack-mountable device that plugs into networks of interrogators and the user's local area network (LAN). The TAP filters and aggregates tag reads before sending the tag data to software applications running at the enterprise level...
October 18, 2005 - Datamonitor
Reva Launches RFID Network Device [pdf]
RFID startup Reva Systems yesterday announced its first product, a network device that acts as a data console for enterprises that are ready to deploy an RFID system. Essentially, Reva is taking an enterprise network approach to the rollout and scale-up of RFID systems and claims to be the first company to launch an RFID networking device of its kind...
October 18, 2005 - Aberdeen Group
Reva Systematizes RFID Reader Deployment and Management on the Network
Reva Systems has announced the introduction of its Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP), signaling another step in the technological evolution to make RFID reader implementation much more of a turnkey approach. It also begs the question, Are network technologies destined to play an increasingly important role in the technical architectures of the future?...
October 18, 2005 - Next-Gen Data Center Forum & Unstrung
Reva Taps Into RFID Data
Just a few months after stepping out of stealth, Reva Systems has unveiled its first product: a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) appliance which aims to ease the strain on users' back-end storage and servers. Keeping track of the masses of data generated by RFID readers poses a potential nightmare for data center managers, something Reva hopes to cash in on...
October 18, 2005 - Lowell Sun
Reva Systems unveils device boosting RFID technology
The way Ashley Stephenson (Reva CEO) sees it, the evolution for retailers to use so-called radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to track their inventories is about where the Internet was 10 years ago...
October 10, 2005 - Mass High Tech
Interest in data backup, RFID follows disasters
Technology companies involved in communications, radio frequency identification (RFID), and data backup report the devastation from hurricanes Katrina and Rita has not necessarily given them an economic lift - but it has created a buzz about how their technologies can be used to avoid downtime in future natural disasters...
September 21, 2005 - Network World
How Cisco and Reva RFID approaches compare
The newly announced Cisco AON-for-RFID platform is in some ways similar to - and, effectively, validates - the network-based RFID architecture announced by start-up Reva Systems in June. Reva plugs clusters of readers into what it calls a tag acquisition processor, or TAP, which sits on the corporate Ethernet and forms what the company calls a tag acquisition network, or TAN...
August 19, 2005 - Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Analyst Perspective: RFID and the Agile Enterprise
Relative to RFID, enterprise agility is a requirement. Early RFID pilots have shown that systems must be able to scale up in order to handle increased data volume and manage devices. RFID systems will be linked to core user applications and business processes...
August 16, 2005 - VentureWire
Two New Board Members at RFID Co. Reva Systems Make Small Investment
Reva Systems, which provides enterprise architecture for radio frequency identification installations, has added two directors to its board: Gary Bowen and Devdutt Yellurkar. Both made small investments in the company...
July 2005 - Venture Development Corporation (VDC)
RFID and the Agile Enterprise
From traditional players to recent start-ups, network vendors are aggressively developing RFID solutions that speak to the agile enterprise concept...Network vendors contend that while current RFID systems work well for small pilot tests and limited deployments, they cannot be effectively scaled to the enterprise level unless RFID hardware and software can be easily and centrally managed. Regardless of the application, RFID cannot be a special, custom-developed solution. It must be something that fits into the corporate enterprise network...
July 20, 2005 - Frontline Solutions
Reva Announces Open Source Implementation of SLRRP [pdf]
Reva Systems has announced an open source implementation of the Simple Lightweight RFID Reader Protocol (SLRRP) on SourceForge.net, an open source repository for the software development community...
July 18, 2005 - RFID Update
What RFID Can Learn from IT Systems Management
The parallels between the movement of goods through a physical supply chain and the movement of packets through a network are striking. As a result, the RFID world has a lot to learn from what works and what doesn't in the world of systems management...
July 12, 2005 - interfaceNOW.com
Reva develops RFID network architecture standards
RFID technology has enabled a number of industries to quickly and efficiently control inventory, reduce theft, track parts, or monitor access. In fact, the implementation of low frequency, high frequency and UHF RFID tags is as varied (and sometimes as controversial) as the products and services that span the Globe...With the variety of implementation comes the reliance on different proprietary applications required to read RFID data. As with most proprietary applications, enterprise-level rollouts are hampered by the absence of interoperability between applications. Reva Systems has developed an open standards-based solution intended to intelligently cope with the proliferation of RFID readers on an enterprise network...
July 8, 2005 - RFID Journal
RFID News Roundup: Reva offers SLRRP open source code
Reva has made its draft Simple Lightweight RFID Reader Protocol (SLRRP) available as open source code at SourceForge.net. The protocol defines how readers convey configuration, control, status and tag information between RFID readers and their network device managers in an IP-based network...
July 8, 2005 - UsingRFID.com
Reva publishes open source RFID reader protocol
Working with industry standards bodies, consortiums, reader vendors, and reader silicon merchants, Reva has been facilitating the definition of SLRRP as an open standard for RFID reader control and data transport in Internet Protocol (IP) networks...
June 20, 2005 - Network World
SLRRP spurs large-scale RFID rollouts
Radio frequency identification readers were originally operated as peripherals typically connected to a host computer via a serial port to support a dedicated application...but to accommodate large-scale RFID production environments, readers are evolving to support TCP/IP stacks connected via wired or wireless networks...
June 9, 2005 - ABI Research
RFID: Plug-and-Play to Save the Day
"Most of the RFID products available so far require a good deal of hard work for users to integrate them into their existing supply chain systems. Companies want to be able to plug an RFID reader or printer into their network and simply have it work. They want it to coexist with their own IT systems and to be able to manage RFID centrally without massive reconfiguration, extensive training, or the need to outsource...A few startups have begun to address this need," notes Sara Shah, ABI Research analyst...
June 9, 2005 - Frontline Solutions
New RFID Architecture From Reva Systems [pdf]
Reva Systems has released its RFID infrastructure solution, the Tag Acquisition Network (TAN), to help make RFID pilots scaleable and repeatable across the enterprise. Reva has applied networking principles similar to those employed in LANs, wireless LANs, and storage-area networks (SANs) to RFID in order to integrate each local Tag Acquisition Network as part of the enterprise infrastructure...
June 7, 2005 - RFID Gazette
Reva to Simplify RFID Implementation
Reva Systems unveiled its standards-based RFID network architecture aimed at simplifying RFID system implementation. The architecture will be able to integrate RFID into existing enterprise networks. Given the acronym TAN (which stands for Tag Acquisition Network) Reva hopes to unify implementation...
June 7, 2005 - Computer Business Review
Reva reveals RFID network architecture
Reva Systems jumped onto the RFID scene yesterday by announcing its standards-based network architecture, designed to give IT managers a framework for RFID implementation..taking an enterprise network approach to the rollout and scale-up of RFID systems...
June 6, 2005 - Managing Automation
Startup Unveils Network-Centric Approach For RFID Deployments
A startup with an impressive pedigree, big-name backers and 14 months of interaction with potential customers and standards organizations today unveiled a standards-based, network-oriented architecture for deploying and managing RFID rollouts across and between enterprises...
June 6, 2005 - Network World
Experts fear RFID strain on networks
Network equipment vendors and industry watchers are sounding the alarm that RFID threatens to overwhelm enterprise networks with operational demands. Addressing the issue are big-name companies such as Cisco and start-ups such as Reva Systems...
June 6, 2005 - Next-Gen Data Center Forum
Startup Raves on RFID
Startup Reva Systems emerged from stealth today, pinning its hopes on the burgeoning market for radio frequency identification (RFID) products...
June 6, 2005 - RFID Journal
Reva Announces RFID Network Design
Venture-funded Reva Systems introduces a standards-based RFID network architecture and a reader-to-network standard, and is developing an RFID infrastructure product...
June 6, 2005 - eWEEK
Reva Plans RFID Architecture à la LAN
Reva Systems, a small startup that's been in stealth mode for the past year, announced Monday an interesting project involving RFID device implementation and management...
June 6, 2005 - Mass High Tech
Company banks on network standards for RFID
Reva Systems' mission is bold and simple: make passive radio frequency identification (RFID) a network commodity...
June 6, 2005 - Lowell Sun
Reva Systems aims to enhance the way inventory is tracked
A group of accomplished area high-tech executives is bringing out of stealth mode today a startup that aims to simplify and enhance the way retail merchandise is tracked through the supply chain...
June 6, 2005 - VentureWire
With $6M Series A in the Bank, Reva Systems Unveils New RFID Architecture
After receiving more than $6 million in Series A funding last year, RFID infrastructure start-up Reva Systems has emerged from stealth and unveiled its Tag Acquisition Network (TAN), a network-centric architecture to implement radio frequency identification systems...
June 6, 2005 - New Telephony
Reva Systems Announces Open Architecture for RFID
Using the same principles employed in LAN, WAN and storage-area networking (SAN) designs, Reva integrates each local Tag Acquisition Network (TAN) as part of the enterprise infrastructure, by adding a layer of networking intelligence to local networks of RFID readers and tags...
May 31, 2005 - Network World
Start-up plotting to keep RFID traffic under control
Reva Systems is about to come out of stealth mode and share its vision for ensuring that RFID traffic doesn't overwhelm corporate networks...
