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A Q&A with ADI Fellow Tony Montalvo
Q: Describe the role ADI has played in developing and enabling the network infrastructure necessary to launch 5G. What sets us apart from the competition and why does it give us credibility for understanding its future impact?
Montalvo: We’re the leaders in radio technology for cellular infrastructure because we challenge ourselves to anticipate market needs and our customers’ emerging pain points. Here’s what I mean: around 8 years ago, we observed the continuing exponential growth in data traffic and asked ourselves how the network would need to evolve in order to keep up. While the details were fuzzy, it was clear that the answer had to be some combination of densification and frequency band proliferation. And it was just as clear that the radio architectures that were in use at the time weren’t going to work. They were too big, too expensive, and creating a band variant required too much effort from our customers who, we predicted, would soon become over-burdened by the demand for an exploding number of product variants.