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Phil Belanger has more than 20 years of experience in
research-and-development and marketing for the network systems industry
and has played a seminal role in the success of wireless LANs. One of
the founders of the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA),
Belanger served as chairman from WECA's inception in August of 1999
through March of 2001. Belanger also was one of the authors of the
DFWMAC protocol, which was selected as the foundation for the IEEE
802.11 MAC protocol standard, and is the current chairman of Pass-One,
an industry membership organization focused on creating a global
standard for wireless Internet service.
Belanger served as Wayport's vice president of wireless business
development in 2000 and later became vice president of marketing.
Belanger formed several key business and strategic partnerships for
Wayport, including Microsoft and Dell, and his team built awareness for
Wi-Fi-based public access to the Internet.
Belanger held various executive positions at Aironet from 1995 through
1999 where he was instrumental in the Aironet IPO and eventual sale of
the company to Cisco Systems. Prior to Aironet, Belanger was vice
president of wireless development at Xircom Inc., where he was
responsible for engineering and product marketing for wireless LAN and
wireless wide-area network (WAN) products. Belanger authored Xircom's
Netwave medium-access protocol and system-level wireless LAN (WLAN)
protocols. He was also responsible for launching the Netwave product
line through Xircom's worldwide distribution channels. Earlier in his
career, Belanger was general manager of communications products at
Adaptec, Inc. and director of the network architecture group at Corvus
Systems.
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