Key quotes from David Baum, CEO of Sckipio Technologies based upon his October 2015 interview at Broadband World Forum 2015's Road to 2025.

1. KEY QUOTES
DAVID BAUM, CEO & CO-FOUNDER
SCKIPIO TECHNOLOGIES

2. “No one ever thought that G.fast can work up to 500 meters. What we
demonstrated in several tests and trials, British Telecom mentioned that as
well, we showed the technology can reach quite longer distances than what
they thought would occur and when people talked about 200 meters, we
showed them 500 meters is actually realistic.”

3. “We solved a big problem internally in our chip, which is vectoring. Vectoring in such
a powerful modem is quite a challenge and what we did, we developed a new way to
approach it called distributed vectoring. This means that our chipset is already
handling the vectoring – we don’t need any external vectoring engine like in VDSL
and we did it in a much faster way than anything that was implemented before.”

4. “By not running the fiber all the way, you can save hundreds of dollars or
even more per every customer.”

5. “One gigabit will probably be enough for the coming 10 or 15 years”

6. “We are already talking about doubling the bandwidth and we are talking
about higher power, longer reach, many of the features that guys like British
Telecom are promoting today will be implemented in the coming year.”

7. “There is enough capacity out there. Those copper lines will not die in the next
10-15 years. It’s just a question of when are we going to use this capacity.
There isn’t a question of if we are going to use it because we can see that
anyway it will be worthwhile to use it and to squeeze more out of it.”

8. “We realized that by providing a solution that will commoditize the toughest
problems in the whole equation - by providing a complete solution of vectoring,
providing a complete solution of management. So, we also built a software that
can support SDN and cloud management. We created a solution that can be
implemented by any company.”

9. “Today that’s the main reason we have over 30 customers. Many of them didn’t
have any business in this area and now, a company that wants to develop G.fast
can come to us and get the whole package and offer something that will be
similar to the big guys in this market – without building up a new team, a huge
team and having to invest a huge investment in this area.”

10. “I see a long life for copper and it will keep on going and fiber will gradually
get closer and closer to the customers until finally it will find its way to the
home. But this will not happen in one day.”