Edgewater Wireless CEO Andrew Skafel talks to Cantech Letter

Edgewater Wireless (Edgewater Wireless Stock Quote, Chart, News, Analysts, Financials TSXV:YFI) CEO Andrew Skafel says the decades-old architecture underpinning Wi-Fi is “breaking down under its own success,” and argues the Ottawa company’s patented multi-lane technology is emerging at exactly the right moment to fix it.

Skafel told Ticker Take host Jon Erlichman at the 2025 Cantech Investment Conference that global service providers are increasingly engaging with Edgewater’s Spectrum Slicing platform as device congestion becomes a top-tier industry challenge.

Spectrum Slicing is a patented multi-channel architecture designed to improve Wi-Fi performance in crowded environments. Instead of relying on the traditional single-channel approach used in most legacy systems, the company’s chips and IP enable multiple channels to operate on a single radio, targeting both residential and enterprise deployments.

Asked to outline the company’s mission, Skafel said, “At Edgewater Wireless, we make Wi-Fi better. We’re a fabless semiconductor and IP licensing company, dramatically transforming Wi-Fi.”

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He said that the bottleneck in conventional Wi-Fi grows more acute as device counts increase.

“All legacy Wi-Fi has been based on what’s called a single channel architecture… it works great if you have one vehicle, but if you start putting more and more traffic on that single lane, it gets congested and breaks down,” he said.

With billions of connected devices now competing for bandwidth, Edgewater’s multi-lane approach is aimed at distributing that traffic more efficiently.

Skafel said the recent industry response has been encouraging.

“We’ve recently secured the backing of a Silicon Valley group called Silicon Catalyst. They’re now one of our largest stakeholders, and that’s really been transforming what we’re doing from a business perspective. Now, from a customer perspective, we’ve captured the attention of some of the largest service providers in the world, folks like Liberty Global and a lot of the cable operators.”

He said the company is focused on three core segments for its semiconductor technology: residential Wi-Fi, enterprise environments such as convention centres and industrial IoT applications, and markets outside North America.

“This is a global opportunity. It’s not geographically limited. Wi-Fi is everywhere.”

What excites him most, he said, is the performance potential the technology is beginning to show in real-world testing. “We’ve demonstrated you can see anywhere from 7 to 18 times performance gains in the home… and 50% lower latency than legacy single channel Wi-Fi.”

Skafel said the company is now focused on turning those technical gains into commercial wins as it moves deeper into large-scale deployments with major service providers.

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