Wave Agility
Wave Agility is the world’s first cost-effective solution for enabling mm-Wave signals to penetrate inside home/buildings through the Infrared (IR) shielded glass and walls without drilling holes. It is also simple to install by the consumer as it is a consumer product. Building materials and IR shielded glass prevents mm-waves from penetrating. Wave Agility has a product portfolio for different mm-wave bands including 28GHz Band (A1, A2, B1, and B2), 39GHz Band, 60GHz Band, and 3.5GHz Band.
Wave Agility Development
Solyman Ashrafi started studying the absorption properties of millimeter waves in the late 1970s. In 1980, he worked with Dr. Henning Harmuth on mitigation approaches for absorption of electromagnetic waves in fog and rain. Solyman published further research work on PCS System Design in the Presence of Microwaves for wireless operators. He later worked on Microwave and mmWave projects at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. His work continued until he joined metroPCS and patented many inventions for backhaul applications.
After the merger of metroPCS with T-Mobile, Solyman continued his research and development activities in millimeter waves at NxGen Partners and in August 2013 commissioned the University of Southern California to further reduce to practice the development of his technology. His R&D activities resulted in over 87 published papers, 75 granted patents and over 40 patents pending.
In January 2014, Solyman was interested in launching a fixed wireless access operator company and started to work on finding ways to mitigate the absorption loss of millimeter waves as they penetrate through low-e glass and walls. In 2015, Solyman commissioned other university labs to reduce to practice his innovations to a product that would allow millimeter ways to tunnel through the low-e glass/walls using RF and vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSELs).
In April 2016, he commissioned a team to further develop a prototype. He also created and submitted numerous patent applications on horn, conical and patch antennas, power amplifiers and other methods using both RF and photonics. Solyman not only demonstrated the tunneling of data traffic through low-e glass and walls, but also demonstrated magnetic resonance induction power transfer using advanced chipsets. Solyman also has several granted patents that cover beamforming with phased array antennas that can be integrated into the Wave Agility product and other solutions.
☑️ Covers all mm-Wave bands
Wave Agility products cover all mm-wave bands including 28GHz Band (A1, A2, B1, and B2), 39GHz Band, 60GHz Band, and 3.5GHz Band.
☑️ Powerful Flexible Configuration
Wave Agility products are designed to work with different types of walls and windows in order to enable mm-wave signals to penetrate inside home/buildings.
☑️ Robust Weather-Resistant Design
Wave Agility features a metal/plastic design built to withstand the harshest environments including precipitation, hot/cold weather and high/low humidifies.
☑️ Wireless Power Transfer
The technology is demonstrated for both wireless traffic as well as wireless power transfer (from inside to outside using magnetic resonance coupling).
History of Wave Agility
Wave Agility was founded by Roger Linquist and Solyman Ashrafi. Roger, a pioneer in telecommunications, started his career at Texas Instruments in 1966 where he served as manager in the central research laboratories applying new technologies to advanced product systems. In 1976 Roger became a management consultant with McKinsey and Company. Roger then became the founder and CEO of PageMart, one of the largest publicly traded paging companies in the country. In 1994 Roger left PageMart to start MetroPCS. MetroPCS became the fifth largest facilities based wireless communications company in the US. At Metro Roger recruited Solyman Ashrafi to design and build the world’s first 4G network. Solyman also launched the first Rich Communications Services (RCS) with VoLTE is a subsystem. In 2013 T-Mobile acquired MetroPCS and Roger and Solyman left to start NxGen Partners to incubate transforming telecommunication technologies that they felt would be critical for 5G. The first company they incubated and evolved to a product was Wave Agility.
Intellectual Property
- This is a solution that allows mmWaves to tunnel through walls or low-e glass without drilling or any wires
- The solution is applicable to all types of access at any frequency bands (LTE bands including new NR radio, 3.5 GHz CBRS, 5 GHz WiFi, 24, 28, 39 GHz licensed bands and 60 GHz bands as well as 70/80 GHz E-band,….etc.)
- We have deployed our technology in the labs of 3 major operators
- The technology is demonstrated for both wireless traffic as well as wireless power transfer (from inside to outside using magnetic resonance coupling).
- Two configuration of the product: Configuration 1 is already developed and configuration 2 is under development. We have the priority on patents on such a product because we started this activity years ago.
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