Advanced modulation specialist Cohere Technologies has an.nounced two new board members as it gears up for long-elusive commercial impact. They are Johan Wibergh, former group CTO at Vodafone, and industry veteran Amit Mital, founder of venture capital firm Kernel Labs Wibergh, who worked with Cohere on a Vodafone Open RAN trial, said the firm’s implementation of multiuser MIMO is a “game changer” that could double network capacity compared to conventional MIMO systems. Cohere is preparing for commercial launch of its 4G/5G Universal Spectrum Multiplier (USM) software, which will enable its OTFS (orthogonal time frequency and space) waveform to be implemented on multiple vendors’ equipment, hence the Open RAN context. The software was field-tested in June 2021 with Vodafone and several…