Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart Joins ALOHA Networks as President and CEO.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 1996--ALOHA Networks, Inc. (ANI) today announced Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart, former Apollo 9 astronaut, has joined the company as 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. . Schweickart served as lunar module pilot for Apollo 9, the third manned flight in the Apollo series and the first manned flight of the lunar module. He is founder and past president of the Association of Space Explorers, the international association of astronauts and cosmonauts. He is currently serving on the NSF NSF - National Science Foundation U.S. Antarctic Program Outside Review Panel, established by the White House National Science and Technology Council The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) was established in the US by Executive Order on November 23 1993. This Cabinet-level Council is the principal means within the executive branch to coordinate science and technology policy across the diverse entities that make up . Schweickart is former Executive Vice President of CTA An abbreviation for cum testamento annexo, Latin for "with the will annexed." Commercial Systems, and Director of the company's LEO satellite systems. He has served as president of NRS Communications and Courier Satellite Services. During the flight of Apollo 9, Schweickart tested the lunar portable life support backpack becoming the first person to walk in space without an umbilical, an experience which may provide him with a unique perspective as the leader of a company focusing on the development of wideband untethered Unattached to any data or power source by wire or fiber; in other words: wireless. Contrast with tethered. data communications. ANI was founded in 1994 for the commercial development of Spread ALOHA, the wideband spread spectrum successor to the ALOHA protocols. Spread ALOHA is an advanced multiple access technology providing the high bandwidth required for today's tetherless digital communications applications. Spread ALOHA combines the proven simplicity and operational flexibility of an ALOHA multiple access channel with the high bandwidth and high throughput of a spread spectrum channel. First generation ALOHA, developed by ANI's founder, is the most common random access method used in data networks today. ALOHA provides the basic access architecture of the Ethernet, packet radio systems such as Ardis and RAM Mobile Data RAM Mobile Data was originally founded by RAM Broadcasting Corporation as American Mobile Data Communications, Inc. in 1988[1]. The name of the company was changed to RAM Mobile Data in 1989. RAM Mobile Data was the U.S. Operator of the Mobitex network. , the signaling channel in all three major digital cellular standards and in over 200,000 two way VSAT's. ANI provides a proprietary solution to the many-to-one requirement in digital wireless communication networks where many remote terminals send signals to a central station. Spread ALOHA can provide data rates 100 to 1000 times that of first generation ALOHA. Applications include packet radio, PCS, LMDS (Local Multipoint Distribution Service) A digital wireless transmission system that works in the 28 GHz range in the U.S. and 24-40 GHz overseas. It requires line of sight between transmitter and receiving antenna, which can be from one to four miles apart cable and wireless television answerback an·swer·back n. A response to a transmission made over a two-way radio. , VSATs and mobile satellite systems. ALOHA Networks' goal is to bring Spread ALOHA to the marketplace rapidly in cooperation with service providers and manufacturers. Schweickart is responsible for implementing that goal. CONTACT: Aloha Networks, Inc. Joan Abramson, 415/750-3402 joan@alohanet.com. |
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