"Wireless Nirvana- Life in a Fully Connected World" Presented by Nambi Seshadri VP and CTO Mobile and Wireless Group Broadcom Corporation

Abstract:

The growth of mobile devices, driven mainly by voice communications and text messaging, has clearly been one of the major technological success stories of the last decade. However newer forms of services including web access, multi-media messaging and Video is driving the push for higher data rates in Wide Area Networks (WAN). Adoption of Personal Area Networking (PAN)-Bluetooth Technology in these devices is also increasing due to lower cost, longer battery life and smaller size of devices such as headsets. The emergence of newer applications such as hands free operation in cars, use of cell phones as wide area personal gateways and need to print pictures from camera cellphones are also drivers for Bluetooth adoption. In addition, deployment of Wireless Local Area Networks (LAN) in homes, enterprises and hot spots is creating new service opportunities for cellular, wireline carriers and broadband ISPs. The result of all these is a relentless need to integrate every form of wireless technology(PAN/LAN/WAN) in mobile devices. Such integration, while challenging, is possible due to advances in mixed-analog, digital and RF technologies. Ultimately, these devices will allow users the freedom to avail themselves of the best means of communication at all times and anywhere.

Biography:

Nambi Seshadri is VP and CTO of the Mobile and Wireless Group at Broadcom Corporation. He is responsible for many of the wireless strategic initiatives at Broadcom Corporation including entry of Broadcom into cellular. Prior to joining Broadcom Corporation, he was with AT&T Labs and Bell Labs where he and his colleagues made a number of pioneering contributions to cellular including error control coding, link layer protocols, and invention of space-time coding which is being rapidly adopted in cellular and 802.11 as a means of providing increased robustness and higher data throughput. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and was a co-recipient of the 1999 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society.