ArrayComm is a wireless communications software company founded in

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. Co-founded in 1992 by Martin Cooper, a pioneer of the wireless industry. The company is wholly owned by Ygomi LLC, under principal investor T. Russell Shields. The current headquarters is Buffalo Grove, Illinois. ArrayComm sells the

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(PHY) for 4G/5G wireless systems, as well as multi-antenna signal processing software for specific components of 4G PHYs using

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and MIMO techniques. Patent-licensing is another source of revenue. The company's hardware was sold in

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and

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under the

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brand name which continues to be owned by Kyocera. ArrayComm also traded in Asia by selling base-station software for

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(PHS) base-stations.

Executive timeline

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

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, though more recently it has been reestablished on

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for business networking.

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