Peter Stanforth
The progress made by MeshNetworks motivated Motorola to buy the startup in 2004, laying the foundation for Motorola’s MeshNetworks Enabled Architecture, a comprehensive technology menu for government, law enforcement and the private sector that enables high-performance wireless broadband networks to be built at low cost.
Peter Stanforth, vice president and director of technology for the Mesh Networking Products Group at Motorola, has spent most of his life in pursuit of the perfect ad hoc network. His ambition has paid off, and current events have given new meaning to one of his central efforts: wireless mesh networking.
Wireless mesh networks rely on multiple access points that configure themselves and communicate in a peer-to-peer fashion, creating a distributed intelligence model that has no single point of failure.
As CTO of MeshNetworks, Maitland, Fla., Stanforth and his team of 50 engineers took the largely academic concept of mesh networks and added practical ingredients such as load balancing and billing capabilities. ’I was the guy they threw rocks at and cursed. I’d be the one throwing out all these ideas, and they were tasked with making it reality,’ said Stanforth, a native of England and a self-described ’beach bum’ who for the past 20 years has called Florida his home.
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