About the talk:
One of the biggest barriers today standing in the way of deployment of advanced wireless communications systems turns out not to be the technology, but restrictions related to regulatory policies. This presentation will discuss the nature of these barriers and how they have affected the development of wireless data systems over the years.
The speaker will also discuss on-going work in which he is involved to use advanced wireless technology to deploy multiservice IP systems as part of infrastructure-development projects in the Kingdom of Tonga and with Native American groups in the US, and how such projects are able to deal with the limitations imposed by conventional regulatory barriers.
About the speaker:
Dewayne Hendricks is CEO of Dandin Group, Inc., a Fremont, CA-based
company which does research and product development in the area of
broadband wired and wireless data devices and services, and serves
as a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Technological
Advisory Council (TAC; see
Dewayne was formerly co-founder and CEO of Tetherless Access Ltd., one
of the first companies to develop and deploy Part 15 unlicensed wireless
metropolitan area data networks using TCP/IP protocols. He has
participated in the installation of such networks throughout the world,
including Kenya, Tonga, Mexico, Canada and Mongolia.
Dewayne has been involved with radio since his teens when he received
his amateur radio operator's license. He holds official positions in
several non-profit national amateur radio organizations and is a
director of the Wireless Communications Alliance, an industry group
which represents manufacturers in the unlicensed radio industry.
In 1986 Dewayne ported the popular KA9Q Internet Protcol package to
the Macintosh, which lets Macs be used in packet-radio networks. Today,
thousands of amateur radio operators worldwide use NET/Mac to take part
in the global packet-radio Internet developed and deployed by the
amateur radio service.
Contact information:
Dewayne Hendricks
Dandin Group
43730 Vista Del Mar
Fremont, CA 94539-3204
510-573-0561
dewayne@dandin.com
http://www.dandin.com