Tel 1-613-225-8688

Fax 1-613-225-0059

Cell 1-613-797-8334

getch@sagacitic.com

Sagacitic Solutions is a consultancy providing business, technology, and management insight and assessment. Sagacitic specializes in commercial and consumer access products and technologies. We focus on providing fundamental research and company specific assessments to help understand product fit, development risk, organization strengths, weaknesses, and pitfalls.

Wireline Access

Voice telephony from handset and line card to network for circuit switched and packet switched (IP) CO and PBX applications

Digital Subscriber Loop (DSL) technologies and standards ADSL, HDSL, SDSL, VDSL

Wireless Access

2G and 3G mobile solutions and standards

802 family of wireless solutions including Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and WiMAX

Fixed point – point, point - multipoint and mesh networks

Home Networking

Power line Local Area Networking

In-home multi-media service delivery

Custom ASICS

Technology selection; architecture evaluation

Business and Management Assessment

Individual assessment for skills and behavioural match

Product road map planning and assessment

Product architecture, features, functionality and cost analysis

Development schedules – project plan content and risk

Wayne Getchell the president of Sagacitic Solutions is a technical leader with over 30 years of progressive achievements developing products involving hardware, software, firmware and silicon. He has a relentless passion for new challenges. Most recently he has been V.P. of R&D at Cogency Semiconductor, an Ottawa Canada start-up providing HomePlug compliant powerline home networking silicon and low cost reference design solutions geared to volume manufacture in Taiwan and China. Before that, Wayne held a series of increasingly responsible positions at Nortel Networks. He was director of groups developing end-to-end network architectures for simultaneous delivery of voice, video and data solutions in the regional transport and access domains. He was also responsible for Nortel’s high-speed access technology development including combined voice and high-speed solutions. Previous to the wireline telephony experience, he led groups developing in-building mobile wireless solutions based on CT2, DECT, and WCPE technologies. Earlier in his career, Wayne was responsible for developing custom ASICs. These included mixed analog-digital, DSP, and high voltage MOS and bipolar devices used for telephone handset and central office line access applications.