telecommunication manufacturing founded 2001 headquarters stuart florida usa key people kirk kirkpatrick products direct broadcast television internet number of employees 20 parent mdsa holding subsidiaries mds operations website 1 mds america inc mdsa is a wireless internet and wireless cable tv technology provider based in stuart florida . mds america was the primary party responsible for the invalidation of northpoint technology inc s patents having to do with terrestrial rebroadcast of satellite signals . 1 mds operations an affiliated company participated in recent auctions in 2005 and 2006 held by the federal communications commission fcc of the frequency band of 12.2 12.7 ghz which it christened mvdds . 2 contents 1 technology 2 us based mvdds systems 3 legal history 3.1 northpoint technology ltd 3.2 northpoint appeal 3.3 mds international 4 management 5 external links 6 notes technology edit the receiver of mdsa s system uses a technology that is patented under us patent number 7 286 795 . 3 the mvdds system uses similar spectrum to a dbs direct broadcast satellite system and is capable of operating at the same frequencies without interference . the mdsa two way system competes against satellite internet access ; the shorter round trip distance of only a few hundred kilometers reduces the latency compared with a geostationary satellite s 44 000 mile 250ms latency . the mdsa system has the disadvantage of requiring infrastructure closer to the user a satellite can cover a significant proportion of the country instead of the maximum 200 km radius of an mdsa base station . however since the mdsa signal can be sectorized mdsa s bandwidth unlike that of satellite can be multiplied in most geographical areas . for video distribution this means that local channels and local advertising can be injected into the signal unlike with dbs satellite systems . mds america inc. mdsa built the first terrestrial digital television distribution system in ireland . 4 as well mds america has built the largest mvdds systems in the world including the 700 channel capacity system in the united arab emirates . 5 in 2011 mds america built the first commercial wide area mvdds system in the united states in albuquerque new mexico.this system can provide up to 50mbit s service to homes and businesses in the albuquerque area . this is the first ever business residential service delivering 50mbit s by wireless to an entire metropolitan area . 6 us based mvdds systems edit mds america has built and operates an mvdds system in albuquerque new mexico . the system operates using mvdds to cover an entire metro area providing 50 mbit s of wireless internet to the home . 7 cibola wireless albuquerque new mexico legal history edit main article mvdds dispute northpoint technology ltd edit mdsa was sued by northpoint technology ltd. 8 on the grounds of patent infringement us patents 5 761 605 and 6 169 878 . mdsa contended that the patents that northpoint had been granted were invalid since the patents essentially covered attributes of a satellite dish and northpoint had not invented satellite dishes . in 2004 a jury in federal court in ft. pierce florida invalidated both asserted northpoint patents on four separate grounds . 9 this court case and subsequent invalidation of northpoint s patents opened the way for the auctioning of mvdds spectrum . 10 northpoint appeal edit the above case was appealed to the united states court of appeals for the federal circuit . on june 28 2005 the court affirmed the findings of the lower court permanently invalidating both patents . 11 12 mds international edit shortly after this mdsa s subsidiary company mds international are found to be in contempt of court for violation of a settlement agreement . although the agreement is sealed the contempt of court order is not and is publicly available . 13 this contempt order reveals that 1 . mds international is required to state clearly on its website that it does not serve the united states . 2 . the settlement agreement that makes mdsa the sole owner of the rights to the hycanc technology . 13 management edit kirk kirkpatrick founder president and ceo allen quinn exec . vice president and coo grigory kholodkov chief engineer mdsa fabrice ducasse vice president sales and marketing gopiballava flaherty cio external links edit mds america inc homepage mvdds senate testimony new wireless broadband notes edit appellate ruling techweb definition united states patent 7286795 ireland system http www.mdsamerica.com index.cfm linkservid 87efce99 1517 5c85 a49801570d54aa7d showmeta 0 http www.bizjournals.com albuquerque print edition 2011 12 09 mds america debuts ultra fast wireless.html cibola wireless northpoint mdsa info court site northpoint and mvdds appeals court decision spectrum grab a b http mi.findacase.com research wfrmdocviewer.aspx xq fac . % 5cfdct % 5cemi % 5c2006 % 5c20060929 0002432.emi.htm qx retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mds america & oldid 739894430 categories internet service providers of the united statescompanies established in 2001companies based in floridatelecommunications equipment vendorshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 september 2016 at 19 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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