PACKETVIDEO WINS "INNOVATORS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS" AWARD
San Diego Telecom Council Honors Winners
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:
Wireless Content & Applications: * PacketVideo -- Jim Brailean and Team for the distribution of high-quality video and audio over challenging wireless networks. PacketVideo provides embedded multimedia capability including superior audio plus one and two way video for mobile phones and other converged devices.
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 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.
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About PacketVideo Corporation
PacketVideo is the number one supplier of embedded multimedia communications software for mobile phones with more than 60 design wins and 17 million handsets shipped. The company's software enables mobile phones to take digital pictures, record home movies, play back digital music and videos, and make two-way videophone calls. PacketVideo's global leadership is proven by unrivaled relationships with mobile operators, dominance in design wins, and the millions of PacketVideo-powered multimedia phones in the market. PacketVideo was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, Calif. More information can be found at www.pv.com.
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