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PicoCELA Inc. helps businesses build Wi-Fi networks whose access points relay traffic wirelessly between one another. Its PCWL devices use the company’s PBE software to manage those relay paths. Hardware sales generate most of its revenue, and all revenue currently comes from Japan. Most sales go through telecommunications-device distributors and IT consulting firms, which deliver and install the equipment and pay PicoCELA. It also sells directly to businesses. EXEO Group, SCSK Minori Solutions and Nikken together account for a majority of revenue.
Customers use PicoManager, its cloud platform, to monitor network connectivity and traffic and install their own software on the access points. A basic version comes with the equipment; customers can pay subscriptions for upgraded services. Services and maintenance contribute a smaller share of revenue. PicoCELA plans to make a recurring PicoManager subscription a requirement for buying its access points, rather than an optional upgrade.
PicoCELA outsources hardware production, so deliveries depend on manufacturers securing the Wi-Fi chips specified in its designs; they cannot simply substitute other chips. Orders also depend on customers’ capital-spending budgets and timing. Some products use patents licensed from Kyushu University, making continued rights to those technologies important. Its access points must carry the required certifications under Japan’s Radio Act and Telecommunications Business Act before they can be sold.
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PicoCELA's results hinge on Japanese enterprise Wi-Fi demand, competition from Hewlett Packard's Aruba, and reliable outsourced manufacturing from suppliers led by Compex.
Cisco's Meraki competes directly with PicoCELA to supply Wi-Fi access points to enterprises in Japan, putting PicoCELA's prices and market share under pressure. Watch Meraki's new wireless products and pricing, which shape the competition facing PicoCELA's mesh Wi-Fi equipment.
NETGEAR and PicoCELA compete for enterprises upgrading their wireless networks, selling them business Wi-Fi equipment and network-management services. Watch NETGEAR's Enterprise business, which serves small and medium enterprises, rather than its home and mobile products, for the closer comparison with PicoCELA's enterprise equipment and PicoManager cloud service.
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NETGEAR’s Enterprise business serves small and medium enterprises, and its report will show how that business is faring as it competes for the enterprise Wi-Fi customers PicoCELA also serves.
Focus on NETGEAR’s Enterprise business, not its home and mobile products. Strong results would show small and medium enterprises are still buying network equipment, supporting demand for a competitor pursuing the same enterprise customers as PicoCELA in Japan. Weak results could point to softer demand, but would not prove PicoCELA is winning customers or gaining pricing power.
