AimValley
Robert Fitts is a seasoned professional in the telecommunications industry with extensive experience in business development and corporate leadership. Currently serving as the Director of Business Development for North America at AimValley since September 2020, Robert specializes in engineering design services related to telecommunications interfaces and protocols. Prior to this role, Robert held the position of Director of Corporate Development at EXFO, a global leader in telecommunications test equipment, from January 2006 to August 2020. Notably, Robert served as the interim CEO for CENGN, where significant government funding was secured. As Chairman of the Build Committee for Habitat for Humanity Huronia from 2007 to 2009, Robert successfully led volunteer efforts to build homes for families in need. With an early career as Executive Vice President at Consultronics and a technologist at Siemens, Robert possesses a strong foundation in telecommunications technology supported by advanced education in electronics engineering and executive management.
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AimValley
AimValley was formed in 2003 out of the Netherlands-based product development unit of the former Lucent. It engages with leading networking equipment companies to tackle product development projects. Engineers deliver end to end designs including feasibility studies, hardware designs, embedded software development, mechanical packaging, systems compliance testing, and certifications including the facilitation of handover to factory production. Capabilities include FPGA, ASIC development, ASIC to FPGA adaptation, high-speed optical/electronic designs, and miniaturization including SFP based designs. A wide range of technologies is addressed, such as high speed optical transport network (up to 400 Gigabit per second), high-speed multi-rate Ethernet designs (incl. core, edge and enterprise routing), integrated packet over optical, ingestion and transport of legacy technologies (Sonet/SDH, T1/E1, DS3), clock and timing expertise such as IEEE 1588, Sync-E, and complex clock recovery and regeneration, wireless protocols and signal handling including CPRI, OBSAI and much more. AimValley offers AimOS, a proven and hardened Ethernet operating system that is highly reliable and offers efficient high performance. Thanks to our deep knowledge of telecom networking expertise coupled with a DNA of designing products with industry compliance and thermal management built-in, AimValley distinguishes itself by providing superior quality designs. Products are developed from the ground up to meet CE, UL, FCC and other international standards, including NEBS-3.