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San Diego Telecom Council Announces the Innovators in Telecommunications Award Winners

Posted on: Thursday, 23 September 2004, 06:00 CDT

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The San Diego Telecom Council (SDTC), the premier organization promoting growth of the region's telecommunications industry, announced the winners of the first annual Innovators in Telecommunications Awards.

This inaugural competition recognizes individuals and teams from San Diego companies that are making significant technology contributions to telecommunications. The SDTC honors engineers, innovators and creative geniuses that are the promise of the industry in the years to come. Technologies highlighted by this year's nominees ranged from Digital Video, CDMA, Machine-to-Machine and Unlicensed Wireless products. The winners were selected from over 50 entries from a range of companies.

"We asked for nominations of innovators who are changing the face of telecom, changing the way we do business in telecom and changing the success of our companies," said Julia Wilson, executive director of the San Diego Telecom Council. "We received an extremely impressive group of entries from which to choose. All these winners represent the best of San Diego's innovative spirit."

The SDTC honored QUALCOMM's CDMA Team consisting of Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Dr. Roberto Padovani, Klein Gilhousen, Butch Weaver, Dr. Andrew Viterbi and Dr. Chuck Wheatley with the 2004 Legends in Innovation Award for developing a technology that changed our industry in such a profound way.

The 2004 Innovators in Telecommunications winners are:

Digital Video:

* Entropic Communications -- Anton Monk, Chao-Chun Wang, Edward Warner,

Ladd Wardani, Serdar Yilmaz, Ron Lee and Wee-Peng Goh for their

development of a new communications technology called c.LINK, used for

networking video and data over in-home coaxial wiring without any

changes to the home or wires. This chipset is capable of 270Mbps date

rate with QoS mechanisms that support multiple simultaneous HDTV &

SDTV streams.

Fixed Wireless:

* SkyRiver -- Mark Combs and Eddie West for providing high-speed

Internet to businesses that fall into the Telecom "gap" -- those areas

where DSL and cable cannot reach.

Healthcare:

* CardioNet -- James Sweeny for the world's first mobile cardiac

outpatient telemetry system, which allows continuous monitoring of the

patients ECG's as they go about their normal daily activities and

immediate intervention when an urgent or emergency cardiac event is

detected.

Internet:

* Streamload -- Steve Iverson and Michael Balloni for their personal

online content distribution service that enables users to send,

receive, access, store and stream large media and data files easily.

Utilizing proprietary software and customized hardware, Streamload

makes it easy to deliver large files over the Internet to anybody,

anywhere, with the same ease in which you use email.

M2M Wireless:

* Skybility -- Steve Hall, Dorris Waller, Ping Huang, Mark Wang, Tim

Rianda, Chang Ju, David Sanderson, Farah Mohades and Neeru Raina for

their development of "Panther" a new embedded transceiver designed to

send and receive wireless data messages over the control channel

system of the cellular infrastructure. The radio has been designed to

easily integrate into an M2M system with the addition of features like

embedded service determination and "T Mode" which are new to the

market.

Military:

* Northrop Grumman -- Bob Mitchell, Marty Winkler and The Global Hawk

Team for their product/innovation of the Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial

Vehicle (UAV). The Global Hawk is flies at higher altitudes and

faster speeds than previously accomplished by unmanned aircraft.

Flying with no pilot on board, the aircraft is flown autonomously by

the vehicle on-board avionics and electrical systems.

Mobile Wireless:

* Kyocera-Wireless -- Jim McMahon and the Slider Development Team for

their Kyocera Slider V5 MTV Edition handset which features a

ground-breaking sliding design, a visually exciting interface, and an

exclusive suite of content from MTV. Slider V5 was the first

MTV-branded handset, the first three-way partnership of its kind, and

first handset Kyocera designed specifically for the youth market.

Optical Networking:

* LightPointe Communications -- Rich Pecile for a novel free-space

optical processing unit capable of real-time power and beam tracking

adjustment for optimum link availability. The FlightStrata product

enables wireless service providers to deploy rapidly, regardless of

fiber penetration. This allows service providers to sign-up customers

and begin collecting revenue within days instead of months.

Satellite:

* ViaSat -- Thomas Eidenschink, Corey Johnson, Fred Treesh and Phil

Lampe for launching the first DOCSIS based satellite IP delivery

system. DOCSIS is a set of standards born out of the broadband cable

industry for delivery of IP voice, video and data communications with

provisioning, tracking and monitoring.

Security:

* ID Analytics -- Bruce Hansen and Michael Cook for their Identity Risk

Management Suite providing a cost effective way to detect and prevent

all types of identity fraud, from the opening to the early life of a

new account, through to transaction and collection activity on

existing accounts. This advanced pattern recognition technology

called Graph Theoretic Anamaly Detection (GTAD) is deployed against

the ID Network, applying sophisticated analytics to dynamically detect

unusual patterns based on identity information.

Telecom Semiconductor:

* Zyray Wireless -- Dr. Pieter van Rooyen and Dr. Michiel Lotter for

their innovative use of a standard memory interface allowing

SPINNERchip to connect to the majority of existing GSM/GPRS baseband

chips, requiring minimal board level re-design to add WCDMA

capability. This flexible interface is key to reducing handset

manufacturer's development cycle time, maximizing hardware and

software reuse, and minimizing dual-mode GSM/GPRS and WCDMA

development costs.

Unlicensed Wireless:

* General Atomics -- Gerald Rogerson, David Furuno and Naiel Askar for

their innovative approach to implementing the 7.5GHz of unlicensed

ultra wideband (UWB) spectrum that changed the industry. They

proposed splitting the allocation into a series of individually

controllable sub-bands, giving life to multi-band UWB.

* Staccato Communications -- Dr. Roberto Aiello, Dan Meacham, Lars

Mucke, Kameron Wong and Nishant Kumar for the innovations that the

team have contributed to the communications industry is an evolution

of UWB technology from a single-based impulse radio to a multi-band

OFDM based technology that is capable of providing real-time, low

power and low cost high bandwidth wireless connectivity.

VoIP:

* NetSapiens -- David Wang for the V-Box that is the first VoIP PBX

product designed solely for distributed companies with under

100 users. Leveraging VoIP technologies, V-Box enables distributed

organizations to provide advanced corporate PXB features and phone

connectivity for workers at remote locations and the company's

headquarters.

Wireless Carrier & Infrastructure:

* Bandwidth Now -- Matt Spathas and Steve Williams for installing,

provisioning and managing Building Optical Network (BON). By treating

bandwidth as the 4th utility, the BON Aggregates Bandwidth, automates

IT, integrates building systems and enables Wi-Fi.

Wireless Content & Applications:

* PacketVideo -- Jim Brailean and Team for the distribution of

high-quality video and audio over challenging wireless networks.

PacketVideo Device Solutions provide embedded multimedia capability

including superior audio plus one and two way video for mobile phones

and other converged devices.

Wireless WAN:

* QUALCOMM -- Dr. Roberto Padovani for his specific contributions of

cdmaOne (CDMA IS-95A & CDMA IS-95B), and for being the creator of

1xEV-DO.

From these 16 categories, an Overall Innovator winner was chosen based on the impact of the innovation in today's market. This year's Overall Innovator winner was a tie between the Ultra Wideband team at General Atomics and the Ultra Wideband team at Staccato Communications.

About the San Diego Telecom Council

As a broad-based coalition of communications-related companies, service providers, professional trade groups and organizations within the public sector, the San Diego Telecom Council (SDTC) is working to position the San Diego region as a world center for innovation in telecommunications. The SDTC provides members a forum for the sharing of information and opinion on emerging industry standards and markets, offers networking and strategic partnering opportunities, serves as a lobby to impact policy and legislation, and assists in recruiting telecommunications companies, professionals and investment to San Diego. For additional information, please call 858/535-5135, or visit http://www.sdtelecom.org/.

For further information, please contact Kira Jenkins of The San Diego Telecom Council, +1-858-535-5137, kjenkins@sdtelecom.org.

San Diego Telecom Council

CONTACT: Kira Jenkins of The San Diego Telecom Council, +1-858-535-5137,kjenkins@sdtelecom.org

Web site: http://www.sdtelecom.org/

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