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New
Technology Introductions
| Championed
the Digital Cable program inside GI and succeeded in bringing this
technology to the cable industry.
| Conceived
of 64QAM modulation for cable and championed its development. This doubled
the cable channel data rate from 13.5 to 27Mbps over early plans for 16QAM.
| Created
a leading proposal to the ATSC based on the impressive NxtWave technology to
enhance the US Digital TV broadcasting standard, “8-VSB”.
| Conceived
of the IRT approach for cable delivery of digital TV signals from satellite.
| Invented
the ‘re-encryption’ system that provides digital cable TV to millions of
subscribers.
| Invented
the ‘report-back’ card concept to meet a customer’s unique need to
collect pay-per-view data from homes without telephones in India.
| Invented
the means to share a channel between a music channels and Internet services
like WorldGate.
| Designed
systems for TV and music delivery via cable, DBS, MMDS, ADSL, and local
loops.
| Awarded
11 digital video patents on compression, delivery, and encoding, including
the original patent on ‘requantization’ used in all MPEG remultiplexers
and inserters. Five additional
patents pending.
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Standards
Won
| Wrote
the specifications and led the fight to make 64QAM technology the standard
for both digital video and DOCSIS transmission. Achieved ratification by ITU,
IEEE, and SCTE.
| Negotiated,
lobbied, and won agreement on MPEG-2 video and system layers and Dolby’s
AC-3 audio for digital TV on cable and helped carry those choices forward to
broadcast DTV.
| Chaired
technical committees and successfully moved large contentious groups to
write effective and useful specifications.
| Elected
to the Management and Strategic Planning Committees of DAVIC while
representing GI’s often-opposing views.
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Business
Relationships Established and Leveraged to Achieve Goals
| Worked
with Rich Prodan at CableLabs to get a video encoder tested and announced as
their first MPEG-2 compliant product. Wrote the press release.
| Primary
technology transfer agent between GI divisions. Worked with satellite system
group to adapt concepts and solutions to meet the needs of the cable
business.
| Built
relationships to dramatically improve company’s standards representation
and success.
| Bringing
technology from GI and Microsoft we delivered the world’s first satellite
broadcast of music in IP to cable modems. Bypassing the unpredictable delays
of Internet backbone routers allows streamed music without the typical
buffer refill interruptions and full CD quality rates economically. When
combined with IP multicast it will leverage the cable modem’s shared
bandwidth and create a unique cable advantage.
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