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.
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.
The iPhone 12 MagSafe: Foreshadowing a Connector-less Smartphone World?
By Roger Isaac,
CTO, Keyssa
Whatever you think about Apple products (I happen to use Android), you have to give them credit for taking major steps that fundamentally change the way people use smartphones. I guess that should not be surprising. After all, Apple invented the category. Although Apple iPhones may not have all the bells and whistles of some of the other phones on the market, there are times when their newly announced phones foreshadow a trend that everyone in the industry acknowledges, but no one else dare take that step in the own products.
Such is the case with the iPhone 12 and its MagSafe wireless charger.
Why Keyssa Built a Better Connector: Part 1 – Signal Integrity
By Steve Venuti
VP Marketing, Keyssa
We have all experienced the frustrations of mechanical connectors – they break, they leak, they lose connection….it shouldn’t be surprising; data connectors have been around for more than 100 years.
Keyssa is at the Center of the LED Video Wall Explosion
By Steve Venuti
VP Marketing, Keyssa
Mention the words “LED Video Wall” to anyone at Keyssa, and their eyes will light up. The LED video wall market is at that rocket ship point of inflection where price, market need, and enabling technology are all empowering entirely new uses cases for a world where stunning displays will be everywhere — from the sides of buildings to lobby walls to conference rooms and ultimately, to the walls of your home. And Keyssa’s wireless connector, quite literally, is at the center of all this.
Which of These Connectors is about to Fail?
By Steve Venuti
VP Marketing, Keyssa
ISE (Integrated Systems Europe): Why February is Keyssa’s Favorite Month
It’s cold, it’s gray, it’s wet…but it’s also where 80,000 AV and professional systems integrators gather at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) to get a glimpse of the future of the global AV industry. And for Keyssa, it’s validation that we have hit the center of the “pain point” bullseye by addressing one of the most fundamental challenges of the exploding LED video wall market. The mechanical connector.
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.