Hot Technology for Broadband Video
Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 10:15am - 11:15amOnce you've seen football on high quality HDTV, you know that everyone watching TV wants that kind of quality. This session has members of the MPEG4 standards committee describing the video compression they're delivering to every major satellite and video offering. Will 19 meg HD really get down to 6 meg? Can you squeeze 4 channels into 13 megabits? What kind of network server quality and headend do you need? Speakers are key creators delivering this technology today.
Jay Fausch, Sr. Director, Strategic Marketing, AlcatelJay is Senior Director of Strategic Marketing for Alcatel’s Fixed Communications Group where he is responsible for driving the company's global strategic marketing efforts focusing on broadband service delivery. Prior to joining Alcatel, he held key management positions at Lucent, Paradyne, Racal Data Communications and Westell Technologies. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, Jay is a DSL Forum Ambassador and is Chairman of the DSL Forum's Marketing Committee. He has also served on the Board of Directors for the Fiber to the Home Council. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Duke University and an MBA from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lee Goldberg, Sr. Technical Editor, analogZONELee spent 20 years the electronics industry before leaving in 1994 to work as communications editor for Electronic Design magazine and ChipCenter. He is now the Senior Technology Editor analogZONE where he covers networking & communications, as well as connectivity & high-performance I/O technologies. Lee has covered environmental and social issues within the engineering community since 1996, and continues this work in the green-tech and green-power sections at analogZONE. He also organized the first seminar on electronics and the environment to be held at a commercial trade show.
David Price, Vice President, Business Development, HarmonicDavid Price is Vice President, Business Development at Harmonic Inc., based in Sunnyvale, California where he has been instrumental in pioneering Harmonic's leading position in digital video broadcast, distribution and IP based delivery technologies. David was previously Vice-President with TV/COM International (formerly Oak Communications), where he was responsible for Sales and Sales Operations. Originally from the UK, David came to the US as Vice President of M/A-COM Linkabit, now Hughes Network Systems. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the MPEG Industry Forum and was selected this year as one of the "Euro 50" by Cable & Satellite Europe.
Originally, an electronics engineer on the design team of the worlds first CAT scan system, he graduated from CIT with a Fellowship MBA and has an Honors Bachelor's degree in Cybernetics, Instrument Physics and Mathematics.
HarmonicHarmonic Inc. is a leading provider of digital video, broadband optical networking and IP delivery systems to cable, satellite, telecom and broadcast network operators.
Chuck Van Dusen, VP & CTO, Tut SystemsCharles Van Dusen, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, has served as Vice President and chief technology officer for Tut Systems since the acquisition of VideoTele.com in November of 2003, and prior to that for VideoTele.com since April 2000. From 1989 to 2000, he held a number of senior engineering management positions at Tektronix. Mr. Van Dusen served as vice president, engineering at CL 9, Inc. from 1985 to 1988, and as vice president, engineering at Widcom Inc. from 1983 to 1985. Prior to 1983, he held a variety of engineering positions at Quantex Corporation, ADDA Corporation, Diasonics Inc., and Searle Ultrasound. Mr. Van Dusen was educated at University of Southern California and California Polytechnic College, Pomona.
Tim Waters, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Skystream NetworksTim Waters brings over seventeen years of data and telecommunications experience in the areas of sales, marketing, and product management to SkyStream Networks. Before joining SkyStream Networks, Mr. Waters was vice president of marketing, business development and international sales at Celite Systems, a developer and manufacturer of broadband access equipment. Prior to Celite Systems, Mr. Waters held the position of vice president at Onetta, Inc; Promatory Communications (subsequently acquired by Nortel Networks); and Ameritech in Chicago, IL. He also was an executive at Paradyne Corporation and AT&T Computer Systems.
Mr. Waters holds an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and a BA degree in economics from College of the Holy Cross.
