Allen Salmasi is Chairman and CEO of Veea Inc., a company focused on hyper-converged edge networking that combines wireless connectivity, distributed compute, and embedded cybersecurity for AI applications outside the traditional data center [1]. He is described in industry interviews as a longtime figure in wireless technology whose earlier career included work on the CDMA business associated with Qualcomm and involvement with NextWave, a spectrum holder later acquired by AT&T [2]. Salmasi traces Veea's technical lineage to a public safety network project he worked on with Northrop Grumman beginning around 2003 and 2004, when the team won a New York City contract against competitors including Ericsson and Motorola to build a network integrating roughly 500,000 cameras and more than two million sensors for first responders [3]. He has said that experience convinced him machine learning and computer vision capabilities developed for public safety would eventually migrate to commercial and enterprise markets, which led him to found Veea in 2014 to pursue that vision commercially [3].
At Veea, Salmasi describes the company's core offering as a network architecture intended to make artificial intelligence "context aware" and low latency enough for real-world use in logistics, healthcare, and transportation [2]. He characterizes the company's approach as building on an open RAN-based design, crediting work originally trialed by Nvidia and a colleague's company, Vapor, in Las Vegas, which Veea has extended toward the network edge by supporting distributed radio heads paired with a compute mesh and microservices mesh [2]. He argues that as radio frequencies move into the terahertz range, individual rooms will require their own radio heads, making distributed, dynamically self-organizing radio networks necessary, and that security must be built in as a zero-trust fabric embedded in every connection rather than added afterward [2]. In a later conversation held at Mobile World Congress, Salmasi described Veea's newly introduced TerraFabric platform as a control plane meant to manage AI workloads, orchestrate agent behavior, and close what he called a growing gap between deploying edge infrastructure and operating it [3].
On the commercial side, Salmasi has pointed to a supply agreement announced with América Móvil and its subsidiary Telcel in August of the prior year as evidence of Veea's shift toward scaling through telecom partnerships, noting that this followed nine million dollars in revenue the year before and reflected a broader pivot in strategy [2]. He described the resulting product, deployed across América Móvil's network in Mexico and other territories including Telmex, Claro, and A1 Networks serving roughly 200 million subscribers, as a small device bundling fixed wireless access, cybersecurity, and AI-driven applications such as surveillance cameras and IoT functions [2]. Salmasi has also argued that telecom operators risk repeating a past mistake, saying they "missed the wave with the cloud" and should not similarly cede value in the AI infrastructure buildout given their existing facilities, cooling, and wiring at aggregation points [2].
Beyond telecom infrastructure, Salmasi has discussed applications of Veea's virtualized platform in real estate, describing a system that lets agents work remotely while preserving office-level cybersecurity and connectivity, and that supports video conferencing and augmented reality features such as overlaying furniture or renovation options onto a property during a virtual showing [4].
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Allen Salmasi argues that AI's real world value depends on becoming context aware and low latency, which requires an entirely new hyper converged network architecture at the edge rather than incremental fixes to existing wireless infrastructure [1]. He describes Veea's approach as building an Open RAN based system with distributed radio heads and a compute mesh, explicitly aligning with Nvidia's edge AI vision, and insists that cybersecurity must be embedded as a zero trust fabric across every connection since agentic AI cannot be trusted otherwise [1]. He frames telcos as sitting on underused infrastructure and facilities and warns they must not repeat their missed opportunity with cloud, this time capturing value from AI at the edge [1]. Drawing on Veea's origins in a hyper-converged public safety network for New York City, he sees the same orchestration logic now extending to commercial and enterprise markets, with wireless and wireline convergence, sensor fusion, and RF security as central to a sovereign edge AI factory [2]. He also envisions virtualized business platforms, such as an augmented reality enabled real estate office, that let professionals work securely from any location with office level connectivity [3].
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- Allen Salmasi, Veea Inc | theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories ...YouTube
Allen Salmasi discusses Veea's network architecture designed to bring AI to the edge with low latency and context awareness across use cases like logistics, healthcare, and transportation. He explains how Veea has developed an open RAN-based architecture with distributed radio heads and compute mesh capabilities to support AI factories at the edge, and addresses the integration of cybersecurity as a zero-trust fabric across all connections for edge AI deployment.
- Cole Crawford, SynaptiQ Global & Allen Salmasi, Veea Inc ...YouTube
Allen Salmasi, Chairman and CEO of Veea Inc., discusses the company's work on hyper-converged edge networks. He explains how Veea built on a 20-year history starting with a public safety network for New York City that integrated 500,000 cameras and over two million sensors, and how the company formed in 2014 to bring this hyper-converged networking vision to commercial markets and enterprise solutions.
- Allen Salmasi Shares the Real Estate Office of the Future ...YouTube
Allen Salmasi discusses Veea's virtualized business platform that enables real estate professionals to work from any location while maintaining office-level cybersecurity and connectivity. He describes how the solution integrates video conferencing, collaboration tools, and augmented reality capabilities—such as overlaying furniture or renovations onto homes during showings—to create immersive virtual property tours for buyers who need not be physically present.
- Allen Salmasi, Veea Inc | theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories ...podcasts.siliconangle.com
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