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About Joel's blog: Joel Young, CTO and senior vice president of research and development for Digi International, oversees the development of all of Digi International's wireless technologies. From wireless deployment to wireless product development, Joel has experienced a lot of "strangeness" over the years when it comes to wireless technology. Joel will share with us many of the strange things that he has experienced in our wireless world and explain why these things occur. Each posting will pose a "what if" or "what happens when" question that Joel will answer.
About Joel: Joel Young has more than 22 years of experience in developing and managing data and voice communications. Mr. Young joined Digi International as Vice President of Engineering in June 2000 and is currently the Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Technical Officer. In his current role, Mr. Young is responsible for research and development of all of Digi's core products.

Prior to joining Digi, Mr. Young was Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Transcrypt International where he was responsible for sales, marketing, and product development for all information security products. In this position, he launched Transcrypts Customer Care methodology and built new business partnerships. During his tenure at Transcrypt, Mr. Young also served as Vice President of Product Development and Vice President of Engineering where he was responsible for engineering, research and product development for wireless communications products, cellular telephony, wireline telephony and land mobile radio, data security and specialized digital radio products.

Mr. Young also served as District Manager for AT&T Business Communications Services where he was responsible for the creation and implementation of voice processing and network database strategies, including deploying new voice processing platforms into the AT&T switched network for private network and other outbound calling services.

Mr. Young earned a B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Southern California.

Title: Vice President of Research and Development, CTO, Digi International

Email: JoelSTFBT@digi.com

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The Weird and Wonderful World of Wireless

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Why do we still have 800/888 numbers?

The toll free 800 number was born out of the long distance era.  I call it the long distance era because that was where the “value” was in voice telecommunications. We have since moved beyond this era, but a remnant, the 800 number still remains.  Recently I discovered that many of the younger generation aren’t familiar with the whole concept.   ... More

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So all of Tesla’s work was cool, but how about a practical use of wireless power for say 10 to 20 feet?

Okay - well I acknowledge that, as cool as Tesla’s work was, it probably isn’t very practical in today’s world for all of the obvious reasons.    Nonetheless, we can still learn a lot from this work as to how it relates to other wireless power solutions under development today.  Unfortunately, while promising experimentally, wide availability of... More

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So how can wireless power transmission work?

In the last blog I teased you by first stating that the traditional transverse electromagnetic wave method, i.e. how the sun works, doesn’t scale very well for more moderate systems on the earth and second, telling you that Nikola Tesla had figured out a better way.  Unfortunately I didn’t give you any details. However, before we get into too many details, we need to... More

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With everything going wireless, what about wireless power transmission too?

This is probably one of my favorite and most complicated topics to cover.  As most of us know, the wireless transmission of electric power using traditional electromagnetic transverse waves is not practical.  Ignoring the effects of absorption and scattering, the power density of electromagnetic waves in free space spread out such that the power density decrease is inversely... More

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When I go to buy a light bulb, the packages seem to indicate light or color temperature in something called Kelvin. What is this and how can light have temperature?

For me this is a really fun topic because it connects a label on the packaging of common consumer product, i.e. light bulbs, to some of the cool properties of thermal radiation, worked on by such physics legends as Max Planck and Albert Einstein.  In fact, these very properties helped disprove many of the commonly held notions surrounding classical physics, replacing them with the modern... More
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