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TWST: Would you start with a short history of BitWave and an overview?
Mr. Shute: BitWave began about three years ago with a key market insight
and a team that was ready, willing, and able to pursue the resulting
opportunity. Geoff Dawe, Russ Cyr, and I have each been involved in the
wireless industry at component, systems and software levels for over 20
years. We focused on the fact that the number of protocols and bands of
operation that were being licensed for cellular and PDA use around the
world was growing faster than the radio vendors could keep up. We asked
ourselves if we could we come up with a single software defined radio
solution that would be lower cost and consume less power than using
multiple radios in the handset. We decided we could and that we had the
right skills to bring it to market and that's how BitWave got started.
We've made continuous progress since then and today we have silicon
containing an architecture for a single radio, which can be modified
under the control of software to cover all of the different protocols
and bands of operations for cellular handsets and other mobile device
applications. TWST: Where does your product fit in the universe of mobile technology?
Mr. Shute: Every device that is required to communicate wirelessly with
another device requires a radio. Every cell phone, every television and
radio, every electronic device that requires a wireless connection needs
a radio. It is the radio frequency or RF portion of those radios that we
have focused on. It's been projected that in 2007 there will be very
close to a billion cell phones manufactured worldwide. It is by far and
away the largest commercial electronics market in the world and it
continues to grow very rapidly. The kind of functionality that's
required in modern cell phones and PDAs is also growing. There is now an
acute interest in including multimedia solutions such as broadcast
television and audio in these devices. These multimedia applications
require the transmission of high bandwidth video signals that will
continue to place complex demands on radio hardware in the future. With
only incremental improvements to today's technology, we believe that
these multi-band multi-protocol wireless devices will necessarily be
very heavy and consume a great deal of power. There will clearly be a
need for a different approach in providing radios for multi-band multi-
protocol wireless devices and that's what we are focused on doing.
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