 So we're here with the Edgewater and hi, so who are you? My name is Matt Massey. I'm the vice president of marketing with Edgewater wireless Yeah, so we started from the ground up and we have a multi-channel Wi-Fi chip set So we own our own silicon and we have 24 patents wrapped around our silicon all focused on one thing solving high-density Wi-Fi Here's some more information about what you're doing So it's been a big investment for a while It is so it's roughly 60 million dollars invested in developing the chip set and radio cards But what we enable though is we enable multiple channels of transmit and receive on a single radio So it's all Wi-Fi standards compliant But we're really talking about using the spectrum more efficiently and on a single radio We can do that by enabling three channels in 2.4 and three channels today in 5 gigahertz But you can only use one at a time and that's really the problem. Yeah, that's We can utilize three channels in 2.4 and three channels in 5 gigahertz And nobody does that when they do MIMO and everything like that Yeah, so MIMO isn't done at the hardware level So that's all things that are operated above that level with antennas or Algorithms or a very cool technology like beamforming within a high density environment a lot of the value of those technologies Like MU MIMO or beamforming they go out the window because the way the Wi-Fi protocol is written in the way Wi-Fi spec is written is that When a Wi-Fi radio Broadcasting in a high-density environment senses interference those wide channel configurations that benefit Architectures like 802.11ac or 802.11ax Those channel widths actually back off and very quickly you go back to traditional standards Wi-Fi So we said well, let's understand how a high-density environment works and let's build a more optimized Wi-Fi chip set and Radio to operate within those high-density environments So can you grab this? Can we go just over here? I'll let you just go over here Can you describe what is that? So this is the world's first multi-channel access point This access point can do up to six channels With only two radios Thanks to your chip set It's not possible Yeah, so it's not software configurable So we've got 24 patents layered around our technology and primarily focus on interference mitigation So the best way to use your technology is to have both the standard and receiver using the same chip set or no No, no, no, so everything is standards compliant So the device or the user has to do nothing on their end So we're still using the same standards compliant Wi-Fi. We're just using spectrum more efficiently So that means when you entered a room that has this hotspot the Wi-Fi is going to be better Wi-Fi will be better and you as a user will have no idea that there's anything no matter what device you're using phone laptop Whatever doesn't matter better somehow. It's just better. Yeah, absolutely because The the spectrum is a limited resource and you are like intelligently using it. Yeah, so we're optimizing the use of the available spectrum, right? So With high density, there's only so many channels available and within the unlicensed spectrum So what we do and we'll use 2.4 gigahertz as an example We take in the entire Wi-Fi spectrum We take in the entire 2.4 gig band and then we separate out our channels of transmit and receive and so is this a standard router It has a cake. Yeah connections and everything else here. Just come in. This is we've got this one as an empty one Yeah, yeah, what's going to be a price? What are those so price range can really matters what's under the hood not what the box looks like so prices can range anywhere from Eight to twelve hundred dollars on the low end up to five or six thousand dollars on the high end So that's really based on channel configurations everything else. So your market is a enterprise access access Primarily focused on enterprise retail venue event venue stadium But we're actually getting a lot of interest for the home market as well Is there anything about reaching further? Is that help when you do better use of the spectrum? No, so Reach is really with the unlicensed back Radio signals operate the way radio signals do we can't change any of that Really depends on the environment you're deploying in does how far the signal will reach Really what we're focused on is that spectrum optimization piece So places where it's very busy is great, right? Yeah, wherever there's a high user's like a trade show in here where if you tried to connect to the Wi-Fi right now It would be next to impossible how much better does it get with your solution because it's still gonna be a limit, right? There's a it was originally designed for the micro office, right the Wi-Fi. Yeah. Yeah, that's true Yeah, so yeah, so there's gonna be a limit even with your technology Does it make it like orders of magnitude better? No, so I mean Wi-Fi is a contention-based protocol and no matter who's making the Wi-Fi access point It really relies on physical science in order to operate So what we're focusing on is operating better in high-density So more devices connected is really what we're trying to solve That issue as well as being able to operate within a high interference environment Does your technology potentially work with other other types of that? Networks maybe 5G or something? Yeah, so great question So our patent portfolio of 24 patents is OFTM based and that means that there is the potential to take our patent portfolio And work them into a 5G product today. We're focused on solving the biggest issue in Wi-Fi Biggest issue which is Wi-Fi and high-density interference. I think it'd be great if there was something The similar size of a whole router or something like that that People would install and start building a 5G network That is like freeing it for everybody to use somehow, you know, your chips would be useful for that because you would be optimal Potentially. Yeah, I mean wherever you need to optimize spectrum You know it started off years ago Is that you know you'd go to the store and you buy your Wi-Fi router and you just install it in your home And you had Wi-Fi today everyone's becoming unlicensed Wi-Fi engineer and Wi-Fi is everywhere So Wi-Fi success is also its biggest problem In that if we're going to deploy the next generation of networks regardless of whether it's 5G LTE some LTE use some mix of all three We need to optimize our spectrum use and make it make it more efficient And that will all Help us all benefit from a better connected experience. So where's your company based company space in Ottawa, Canada? Is there really people working in the company? Yeah, so we're roughly 20 to 25 We keep a very lean tight focus on engineering and development. And that's that's our primary focus is is is on development So we've been around since roughly 2013 And focused on this Yeah, focused focused on solving Wi-Fi. Yeah All right So that's going to be an interesting conference for you, right? Are you launching? It is no so we actually launched this access point at the the Mobile World Congress last year But we've seen some significant traction of late. So we're we're really excited about this show