Advanced Wireless Technology Company Tropian Appoints Cingular Wireless Director to Advisory Board.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2001 Tropian Inc., a Silicon Valley-based advanced wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. technology company, announced today that it has appointed Cameron Coursey, director of network development at Cingular Wireless, to its newly formed advisory board. Coursey leads the implementation of the GSM/TDMA standards interoperability at Cingular, a joint venture of SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. and BellSouth. Before that, he was director of wireless service development at SBC Technology Resources, Inc., where he led a team of engineers developing requirements for the next generation of wireless terminals and features for SBC. "The formation of the Tropian advisory board is a critical step in our commercial development," said Mike Farese, Tropian president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Cameron brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and perspective of the wireless communications field that will greatly help us plan for next generation products." Farese said more appointments will be announced this year. Coursey holds leadership roles in various industry organizations. He is vice chairman of the GSM Global Roaming Forum and co-chairman of the GSM/ANSI-136 Interoperability Team. He is also the author of Understanding Digital PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. : The TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). Standard. Coursey received his bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. from the University of Missouri. Tropian is preparing to ship its versatile multi-mode transmitter that can be used for both handset and basestation RF applications. The transmitter is the first that can operate multimode in TDMA, GSM, EDGE and AMPS standards. The company's technology also enables high-speed wireless data transmission enabling greatly improved heat management and battery energy efficiency - both critical issues for next-generation high-speed data communications. Tropian's chipset design uses a novel polar modulation technique, termed, Polar Impact(TM). With Polar Impact, Tropian engineers implement RF components in purely digital circuits, which are amenable to a high level of integration. Digital design also means that different modulation standards, including 3G, can be readily implemented in the same platform simply by varying digitally encoded coefficients. Tropian is backed by some of Silicon Valley's leading venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] , including Crosspoint Venture Partners and Convergence Partners. The company's leadership team is comprised of seasoned wireless industry veterans, including Farese, who held senior management positions at Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola during his career. About Tropian Tropian is a privately held fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. offering advanced radio frequency products to the wireless communications industry. In a single integrated circuit platform, Tropian has incorporated the world's leading cellular standards, enabling wireless handset and base station equipment suppliers to deliver economical multi-mode solutions for 2G, 2.5G and 3G voice and data applications. Tropian's patented Polar Impact(TM) technology is a non-linear, polar modulation implementation that offers dramatic improvements in system performance, manufacturability, and reliability. Tropian's technology is also extensible to other communications systems such as Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary ). For more information, please visit Tropian at http://www.tropian.com or contact the US office at 408-865-1300 or the UK office at +44 1491 639705. |
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