HomePlug Alliance Meeting Summary, Review, and Analysis

by George West, Senior Analyst  HomePlug – What is it?  Powerline communications technology that is a platform for extending and sharing broadband connections and Audio/Video distribution today. Future extensions are expected to include HomePlug based Broadband over Powerline (BPL) and Command and Control (C&C) functionality.  Homeplug networking is built on an underlying PHY protocol that […]

Bob Metcalfe of Ember Corporation

George West conducted interviews of industry leaders. These were published in the WTRS Newsletter on a regular basis. Bob Metcalfe – Chairman & acting CEO, Ember Corporation  1. Can you tell us a bit about your background?I was born in Brooklyn, New York. Then I went to MIT, then I went to Harvard, eventually getting my […]

Jason Ellis of Staccato Communications

George West conducted interviews of industry leaders. These were published in the WTRS Newsletter on a regular basis. Jason Ellis – Director of Business Development & Marketing, Staccato Communications  1. Can you tell us a bit about your background?I’ve been in UWB since 2000. Started at General Atomics, started off looking primarily at impulse radio which […]

WTRS Viewpoint of WirelessHD

Does 4 – 5 Gbs at 60 GHz trump 1 Gbs at 3 – 10 GHz?  A long term trend with industry alliance groups that serve to develop and specify standards is that these groups are often primarily made up of semiconductor manufacturers with a sprinkling of consumer electronics companies to spice up the mix. […]

The Power Of The Business Model

by George West, CEO & Senior Analyst Zensys is a company in direct competition with the members of the ZigBee Alliance. The company, according to one of their customers, received $30M from Intel Capital this year. At first glance Zensys appears to be a strong competitor in the Wireless Control Network market. The first sign […]

Vasily Suvorov of Meshnetics

George West conducted interviews of industry leaders. These were published in the WTRS Newsletter on a regular basis. Vasily Suvorov – CEO of Meshnetics  1. Can you tell us a bit about your personal background?  My name is Vasiliy Suvorov and I am CEO of MeshNetics. I have been involved with technology since I was sixteen, […]

Rajiv Kapur of SmartLabs

George West conducted interviews of industry leaders. These were published in the WTRS Newsletter on a regular basis. Rajiv Kapur – CEO of SmartLabs  1. Can you tell us a bit about your background?“I had just graduated from college in 1990 and was working in Southern California when I had an opportunity to work at Gateway […]

Roland Acra and David Culler of Arch Rock

George West conducted interviews of industry leaders. These were published in the WTRS Newsletter on a regular basis. Roland Acra (CEO) and David Culler (CTO) of Arch Rock George: What differentiates Arch Rock‘s products from others being marketed today?  Roland:Data captured from the sensor gets conveyed somewhere in a repository that you can communicate with – it […]

Eric Broockman of Alereon

George West conducted interviews of industry leaders. These were published in the WTRS Newsletter on a regular basis. Eric Broockman – CEO of Alereon  George: Can you tell us a little bit about your background?  Eric: I’ve been in the industry for about 27 years. I began my career at IBM as a design engineer, rising through […]

Robert LeFort of Ember Corporation

George West conducted interviews of industry leaders. These were published in the WTRS Newsletter on a regular basis. Robert LeFort – CEO of Ember Corporation   George: Can you tell us a bit about Ember and how it’s changed over the last 8 months, since the time we spoke with Bob Metcalfe?  Bob: If you look at what has […]