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Dr Paul Mankiewich
Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect Lucent Technologies
Dr Mankiewich is responsible for all aspects of new technology implementation for Lucent Mobility Solutions from radio through the network. His group was critical in the successful commercialization of CDMA and has carried this expertise into the 3G arenas. A few of the critical technologies are adaptive antennas, BLAST, ASICs, linearized power amps, and network architectures and elements. His group is also aggressively addressing the needs of the future 4G network as 3G systems are currently being developed.
Dr Mankiewich was previously, Director of the Wireless Technology Research Department in Core Bell Labs, and Wireless Research Hardware and Architecture Director for the Wireless Networks Group. In this role, Dr Mankiewich was responsible for integrating research technology into wireless products. His research department had responsibility for adaptive antenna, radio and modem technologies for next generation wireless data and voice networks, novel system and radio architectures.
Dr Mankiewich received his PhD from Boston University in Applied Physics. He began working in cellular wireless in 1988. Since then he has been involved in and responsible for all aspects of wireless system design for both CDMA and TDMA systems (GSM, EDGE, UMTS, IS-95, IS-136, CDMA2000 (3G-1X, 1XEV-DO, 1XEV-DV) as well as numerous proprietary systems). |
