ArrayComm
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Mobile Broadband Mobile Radio |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Founders | Martin Cooper, Richard Roy |
| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois  United States |
Key people | Martin Cooper, Chairman T. Russell Shields, Principal Bruce Duysen, President |
| Products | MAS software |
Number of employees | 50 (2009) |
| Website | www.arraycomm.com |
ArrayComm is a wireless communications software company founded in San Jose, California, California, in Silicon Valley. Co-founded in 1992 by Martin Cooper, Chairman and pioneer of the wireless industry. The company's major shareholder is the Ygomi group, under principal investor T. Russell Shields. The current headquarters is Oakbrook, Illinois.
ArrayComm provides multi-antenna signal processing (MAS) software for wireless communications systems, often referred to as Smart Antennas or MIMO. The company's hardware solutions enjoyed their greatest commercial successes in Australia and South Africa under the iBurst brand name which continues to be owned by Kyocera. Software solutions offered by ArrayComm are still under development. Patent-licensing is a strong source of revenue.
The technology claims to improve wireless subscriber experiences and the economics of radio networks. The solution is independent of the network system and supports industry standards including WCDMA, High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA), GSM, WiMAX, Personal Handy-phone System (PHS), and High Capacity Spatial Division Multiple Access (HC-SDMA).
Overview
The problems ArrayComm are trying to solve can be compared to multiple conversations in a single location, or communications across long distances.
In a crowded room, people find it easy to focus the person they are speaking to and effectively ignore other conversations. Conversely, if a person can try to get the attention of someone down the street, by cupping their hands around their mouth, directing their voice to improve the odds of being heard and understood.
MAS is software that allows wireless systems (both end user devices and carrier equipment) to communicate clearly, by solving performance problems that result from the current inefficient radio 'conversations'. Multiple antennas using this software doubles or quadruples performance, by increasing the selective listening and transmission capabilities.
Executive timeline
| Name | Position | Served |
| Bruce Duysen | President | 09/2008–Present |
| Stephen Sifferman | President | 03/2005 - 09/2008 |
| Clarence "Sam" Endy | Chief Executive Officer | 02/2002 - 03/2005 |
| Martin Cooper | Chief Executive Officer | 04/1992 - 02/2002 |
| Karl Martersteck | President | 04/1995 - 06/1997 |
Alumni group
Since inception, the company has had a large contingent of employees who have maintained close contact with each other owing to the paucity of companies in the mobile wireless space. Initially this group was hosted by Yahoo, though more recently it has been reestablished as a LinkedIn Group to facilitate business networking.