Why Keyssa Built a Better Connector: Part 3 – Mechanical Tolerances
By Alan Bessel
Mechanical Engineer, Keyssa
By design, the mechanical connector requires very tight tolerances. And faster signals require even tighter tolerances.
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The Case for Wireless Connectors in LED Video Walls
By Wade Wei, general manager of product at NovaStar and Steve Venuti, VP Marketing at Keyssa
Very few products have as many connections as an LED video wall. Cabinets connected to cabinets running Ethernet through RJ45 connectors. LED display modules connected to cabinets or backplanes with B2B connectors running parallel RGB and a number of control signals. And with each of these hundreds of connectors comes the very real possibility that one will fail.
Why Keyssa Built a Better Connector: Part 2 – Mechanical Reliability
By Stephan Lang
VP RF Systems Engineering, Keyssa
Think about it. The concept of the mechanical connector was invented over 100 years ago and has remained essentially the same 100 years later. Bring two pieces of metal together to create a connection.
Device-to-device Connections in a 5G World Need a 5G Connector: Why I Decided to Join Keyssa
By Rubén Caballero
Chief Wireless Strategist, Keyssa
Formerly VP Engineering at Apple, Inc
5G is the fifth generation of mobile internet connectivity and the feature set is promising: faster data download and upload speeds, wider coverage, more stable connections and lower latency for mission critical operations (think autonomous vehicles, robotics, etc.). Of course, faster speeds are always desirable, but lower latency may be of higher importance for mission critical applications. The processing time required for both sender and receiver using traditional wireless technologies cannot meet the latency requirements of mission critical use cases. It’s all about making better use of the radio spectrum and enabling far more devices to access the mobile internet at the same time.
The Fragility of Metal (you can hear the kids screaming)
By Steve Venuti
VP Marketing, Keyssa
This week saw ominous words for Switch gamers coming out of Nintendo:
‘We are aware of recent reports that some Joy-Con controllers are not responding correctly’
As focused as Nintendo is with an unparalleled user experience, everything can fall apart at that potential single point of failure….the mechanical connector.
Hardware Is No Longer Hard
Steve Venuti, VP Marketing, Keyssa
For the longest time, hardware was exactly as the name suggests: hard, rigid, inflexible. Purchasing an HDTV or a cell phone meant first choosing a screen size…features were the next level of decision making. Why? Because the physical form factor, whether on your wall or in your pocket or purse, was not going to change. It was immutable. But all that is changing.
2 Cases in Point: Displays and Phones
New Advancements in Medical Connector Technology
Andrew N. Goldberg, MD, MSCE
Professor and Director, Division of Rhinology and Sinus Surgery
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
The first line in a recent article published in News-Medical.net (“Infection Control by Sterilizing Medical Connectors & Equipment”) says it all:
“The importance of sterilizing medical connectors and equipment is impossible to overstate.”
The Fundamental Problem with I/O: There is No Moore’s Law for Pins
Roger Isaac, Chief Technology Officer; Keyssa, Co-architect, VPIO
Ajay Bhatt, Former Chief I/O Architect, Intel; Co-architect, VPIO
Learn more at www.vpio.org
It’s been 50 years since Gordon Moore published his prophetic observation, and as we all know, it has had a seminal impact on the development of solid-state devices. It’s been the basis for the speed of development of processors. It’s had a similar impact on the development of SSDs. But there is one key area of computing that has not seen the benefits of Moore’s Law.
Patent Portfolio: The Key to Fundamental Positioning
Guest Blog Post
Mark Lemmo, Strategic Advisor
Since Keyssa’s inception, the CEO and board have committed to invest in developing a high-speed contactless connector portfolio and as a result, the company has produced fundamental patents in this field. Keyssa currently has over 200 patents issued and filed in the US and abroad and is recognized as the technology leader in this space.
Reliving Keyssa’s Early Years: An Evening with Stanford MBA Students
By Steve Venuti, VP Strategic Solutions
Last Thursday evening, I spent 2 hours at Stanford’s Business School participating in Rob Siegel’s class entitled: “Entrepreneurship – Formation of New Ventures.” Stanford has written a case study on the transitional days of Keyssa when Eric Almgren was brought in as CEO and all the management issues associated with that kind of fundamental organizational change.
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