Gordon Barber
Gordon Barber is Director of RF Solutions, for TE Connectivity’s , Data and Devices Business Unit.Gordon leads the RF Solutions team and focus support on 5G and IoT business opportunities.
Gordon’s career spans 20 years in the RF industry and includes leadership and product management roles with Laird Connectivity and Galtronics Corporation. In addition, Gordon has extensive Antenna Engineering experience at Pulse Electronics, Micro-Ant and Seavey Engineering Associates.
Gordon earned a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering from University of Massachusetts.
The complexities of antenna system design and the availability of more frequency bands afforded by 5G have made choosing an antenna for a smart device that much more challenging. System designs cannot rely on plug-and-play options, but instead require more sophisticated planning and a holistic assessment of all connectivity requirements. In a variety of IoT applications, an antenna will need to be customized and include two to 12 antenna products, all inside a minuscule device, like a mobile phone. These antennas must manage different redundancies and services while working clearly and independently from one another - a physical trick of isolating antennas within a system design.
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