About Xtendwave
Xtendwave™ was founded in Dallas Texas in 2001 by industry executives with semiconductor and energy exploration experience. It is from these seemingly disparate fields of work that the use of wavelets, a digital signal processing technique used in energy exploration, was contemplated for use in the extension of rate and reach in telecommunications. The timing was fortuitous in that the increasing processing speed and power of semiconductor technology made it both practical and cost-effective to use wavelet-based modulation in place of traditional Fourier-based methods to increase the physical layer throughput in communication systems for every communications medium. The Xtendwave™ breakthrough was in applying wavelet based technology to DSL chips adaptively and efficiently, resulting in AFBM™. After years of testing and refining the algorithms, Xtendwave™ applied for and received 4 key patents for the implementation of AFBM™ for all communications media and has additional patents pending. With these core patents issued, proof-of-concept testing was completed, and Xtendwave™ is working cooperatively with key industry players to bring the AFBM™ technology to market.
Corporate Vision
Become the company that erases the distance and speed limitations of current broadband technologies.
Corporate Purpose
To extend the reach of wireless and wireline broadband via AFBM™ technology.
Management Team
Morton C. Aaronson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Aaronson’s career covers 30 years in product innovation, marketing and sales and management of both public and private companies. Past responsibilities include; Vice President, Market Management-MCI Business Markets, a $7B operating division of MCI; President, Chief Operating Officer, KN Services, a 3.6B operating division of KN Energy, the nations first deregulated energy utility serving rural Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado; President, Chief Executive Officer, Aerie Networks, a large scale broadband fiber builder and: President, Chief Executive Officer, Ricochet Networks, the nations first mobile wireless data provider.
Dennis Robbins, PhD. Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Dennis Robbins served for 25 years as a senior executive of Texas Instruments, where he led large organizations in the production and manufacture of key Texas Instrument semiconductor products. From 1996 to 2001 Dr. Robbins served as the Vice President of Worldwide Manufacturing for the Mixed Signal and Analog product lines, a $4 billion per year operation with 9,500 employees within his organization. Dr. Robbins’ previously had served as a business unit manager in TI’s $400M per year Standard-Linear and Mixed-Signal IC organization, as well as having managed research and development in the flat panel display business, where his invention was awarded a patent and he served as a member of the U.S. Display Consortium Board of Directors.
Other roles for Dr. Robbins included serving as acquisition/integration manager for the $600 million acquisition of Silicon Systems Incorporated (SSi) by TI, and as Quality and Reliability Assurance Manager for TI's Volume Products (all Analog and Logic products) He also managed all aspects of quality and reliability assurance, including quality design manuals, Statistical Process Control (SQC), Design-for-Manufacturability (DFM), Design-for-Testability (DFT), reliability engineering and failure analysis, Total Quality Management (TQM), Taguchi design-of-experiments, specification and document control, and FMEA (Failure Mode Effects and Analysis).
Today, Dr. Robbins leads all of Xtendwave’s technical and operational functions, including research, design, development, and manufacture of Xtendwave’s patented solutions. He also sits on a number of boards of directors, including Solarno, Inc. and CorInnova, Inc. Among Dr. Robbins’ accomplishments are the following patents:
D. Robbins and J.B. Page Jr., "Calculations of Second-Nearest Neighbor
Contributions to the Raman Scattering of Tl+ doped Alkali Halides,
Phys. Rev. B 13, 3604 (1976), D. Robbins and J.B. Page Jr., "Line-Shape Changes of the First-Order Raman Spectra of F Centers in KCl as a function of Incident Light Wavelength", Phys. Rev. Letters 38, 365 (1977).
PATENT: U.S. Patent # 5,733,160, March 31, 1998, “Method of forming spacers for a flat display apparatus.
Ian Dix - Chief Marketing Officer
Ian Dix has served as the top marketing executive for both multinational and early phase companies, including having served as the Chief Marketing Officer of Safenet, Cincinnati Bell, EVP of Marketing for Qwest, and SVP of Marketing for LCI. Ian also served as VP of Marketing for XLConnect, a successful early phase company that achieved a large IPO and was sold to Xerox for $400 million and served for 9 years at MCI in various junior executive marketing positions.
Dr. Oren Eliezer, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Eliezer has over 20 years of experience in the design and productization of digital communications systems and chips for telecom and wireless applications, both as a co-founder at Butterfly Communications, and at Texas Instruments, which acquired Butterfly in 1999. His experience also includes the development and deployment of telephony systems targeted at rural areas. He has authored/coauthored 30 journal/conference papers on communication system design and productization, given over 15 invited public tutorials, seminars and talks, and is author/coauthor of 29 patents and patents-pending.
Pradeep Shah - Senior Technology Advisor
Pradeep Shah, Ph.D., was a Texas Instruments Fellow on TI’s Technical Ladder and managed positions in R&D and operating groups. For over 5 years, he created disruptive semiconductor technology and led product development with experience in direct hands-on total product line management from concept to market and revenue. He led worldwide teams in the creation of innovative and profitable solutions that have resulted in cumulative direct revenue impact exceeding well over $ 2.5-3B over the past decade. He is currently CEO of Texas MicroPower.