Skip navigation
Electronics Industry Search
Advertisement

Joel Young

Photo of Joel Young

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

User Stats
  • Recent Posts - 32
  • Avg Posts Per Week - 1
  • Posts Written - 32

The Weird and Wonderful World of Wireless

Link This | Email This | Comments (13)

What is the coolest and most practical math equation?

I know that many of you will look at the topic of the blog and give a big “ick” or some other guttural sound that I don’t know how to spell.  To you I offer my sympathy. Of course, for the rest of you that choose to read on, you may be wondering what in the world this topic has to do with a wireless blog.   For you I confess that my mind has been rejuvenated... More

Link This | Email This | Comments (1)

Did the world’s axial tilt just change?

As far as I know and after surveying the world’s top scientists, there is no evidence of any kind of recent shift of the earth’s axial tilt.  Yet, I understand why people everywhere may be wondering about this.  From my own recent experience, something in the world has recently changed.    Being a person in my mid 40s, my professional career has lived... More

Link This | Email This | Comments (3)

What is the best way to connect an iPod into my car’s audio system?

Okay, I admit it, I’m cheap.  I don’t like overspending.  I always like to try to do things myself or get by piecing some lower-cost, good-enough solution together.   So I don’t drive a fancy new car with a dedicated connection for an iPod (or other portable music player).    Most all new cars today have a nice little port for connecting... More

Link This | Email This | Comments (14)

Why do we still have a traditional land line phone? In turns out that we don’t need one.

Have you priced traditional landline telephone service lately?   I admit this is something that I haven’t really paid much attention to until recently.    I say recently, because like many out there, I’ve been spending time trying to figure out how to save a few dollars.    In my household of six (counting my eldest in college), we have... More

Link This | Email This | Comments (3)

What happened to AT&T and the venerable Bell Laboratories?

I know some of you will look at this question and say - AT&T is still around, I keeping seeing ads for all sorts of AT&T stuff.  Isn’t it the largest cellular carrier?  Well the answer is of course yes, but I’m actually talking about the original AT&T, the one that invented telephony.   The company who, with its research arm Bell Laboratories... More
Next >>
Blogs Recent Posts Total Posts
The Weird and Wonderful World of Wireless 32 32
Advertisement

Design News Partner Zones

Light Matters: The Unsung Heroes of Modern Health Care
First, let's define "no-compromise." In an ideal configuration, this lamp would use a high-brightness LED (HBLED) that is built into a small, integrated package and is able to produce a large quantity of focused light, operate with a high level of reliability and generate no audible noise. Is this difficult? Yes, but it is possible.
Read More

Design Engineers' Portal for Sensing and Machine Safety
Whatever industry you're in, or whatever product you manufacture, the right sensors to automate your plant, and to improve your overall efficiency, quality and safety are a must. You'll find Banner Engineering to be an amazing resource of products, training and people with expertise.

Test & Measurement World Machine Vision & Inspection Report
Topics include machine-vision software, Power over Camera Link, thermal imaging and frame grabbers. Read More

Design News Partner Zone Directory »

Please visit these other Reed Business sites