About the Pragmatic Innovator
Video applications and smartphones will be a revenue and innovation growth engine for the telecommunications industry for the foreseeable future. However, when these applications rely solely on streaming video as the distribution platform, networks will crumble under the massive traffic burden that streaming video places on the networks.
The current path is not sustainable.
There is not enough spectrum today, or in the future, to absorb the demand presented by streaming video applications. The industry must look at new and innovative media distribution technologies as a way to fuel revenue growth while mitigating the negative effects of streaming video on the network.
The Pragmatic Innovator blog provides thought provoking analysis of the issues and trends surrounding the delivery of video over wireless networks. The blog also serves as a forum for sharing the experiences, insights and opinions of the team of Pragmatic Innovators behind Opanga. Read more about our esteemed team of bloggers below.
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We will update the blog often and encourage comments to provide new perspectives and advance the conversation.
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Dave Gibbons, CEO
Dave has been engaged in the wireless industry for over 20 years. Dave has been involved in realizing new wireless technologies into global, high-volume deployments including GSM, CDMA and OFDM on both the network and terminal sides. Prior to Opanga Dave held the position of President of Elektrobit Inc profitably managing a 50M+ USD business, Vice President/CTO at AT&T Wireless overseeing a significant portion of AT&T’s cutting edge OFDM broadband wireless activities and numerous roles with Motorola and Nokia. Dave has served on several boards and industry forums and co-founded Eden Rock Communications.
Jeff Harrang, CTO
Jeff has over 20 years of experience in the communications industry and has held a variety of senior technical positions as a Fellow at Boeing and a principle member of technical staff at AT&T. Jeff has served as Broadband Systems Architect with focus on IP-centric wireless networks and possesses significant expertise in IP protocols and applications. Jeff has worked with WiMAX/LTE and OFDM wireless broadband technologies, beginning with AT&T Wireless in May 2000. His experience, having acquired firsthand the lessons learned as both an operator and technology provider, gives him a unique perspective on traffic engineering and data protocols in consumer broadband access networks. Jeff holds a Ph.D. in Physics and has a number of patents in data network systems and protocols.
John Burnette, Director of Engineering
John has been engaged in embedded systems development for close to 10 years and leads Opanga’s R&D efforts. His experience includes leading the development efforts in low-level digital design integrated with FPGAs, embedded OS design with custom physical/link/transport layer protocols, end-to-end client/server architecture and proprietary messaging protocols over HTTP. After receiving a BSEE from the University of Washington, John worked as a development engineer on EDGE devices. He later received his MSEE from the U. of Washington working on ultra-wideband radio tracking systems in the university’s Human Interface Technology Lab. John is also currently a PhD candidate at University of Washington.