Located in Ottawa, Canada, Lifted Systems was founded in 2009 by James Benson Bacque to perform research and technology development in communications, green energy and other sectors.  The company was incorporated in 2013 in response to growing demand for our services.  Lifted Systems has performed both in-house research and development as well as under contract to a variety of technology companies in Canada.  A broad and deep background in business management, systems, semiconductors, software, communications and power technologies allows Lifted Systems to address client problems from an integrated perspective, considering the entirety of the problem-space holistically.

Ben Bacque’s undergraduate engineering degree was in the Computer Science option of Engineering Science at the University of Toronto (1995).  After a two year work term architecting and implementing a shared-bus multiprocessing supercomputer for SemiTech, Inc, Ben returned to complete a M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, focusing on parallel computing.

In 1990 Ben joined Motorola Semiconductor performing applications engineering and market and technology development specializing in communications technology. 
In 1997 Ben co-founded the Broadband Copper Access business unit of Newbridge Networks, developing digital subscriber line and IP TV technologies.

In 2000 with three others Ben co-founded Tropic Networks to address the explosive growth in internet bandwidth by developing reconfigurable optical network technology.  Serving a variety of roles at Tropic after founding, from VP Product Line Management, VP R+D, and CTO until Tropic’s acquisition by Alcatel-Lucent in 2007, Ben then shepherded the product, team, and technology post-acquisition until late 2009, when Lifted Systems was formed. 

That same Tropic all-optical network technology continues to live on within the Alcatel-Lucent Nokia product line as the 1830 DWDM platform, selling roughly a billion euros a year to global markets, two decades after Tropic was founded. And the optics PhDs said it couldn’t be done. Just sayin.

Lifted’s focus is increasingly directed towards another core piece of humanity’s infrastructure, our power grids. It is infrastructure that needs a similar face-lift, though this time electronic rather than photonic. Please contact us if this technology of interest.