SEMINAR
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2-3 pm, Room 1802 Psychology Building
IPTV Challenges and Opportunities
Dov Zimring
Director, Strategic Technology and Solutions Occam Networks
Abstract:
Topics covered in this presentation are:
+ IPTV Defined
+ Major Deployments: AT&T
+ Network Architecture
+ Headend (encoding, transcoding, security, middleware)
+ Last Mile Access (emphasis on VDSL2 and emerging MIMO DSM techniques)
+ In-home content distribution
+ End-to-end Quality of Experience
Biographical Sketch:
Dov joined Occam Networks in 2000 as a Software Engineer helping Occam pioneer the Broadband Loop Carrier product category. Dov received his Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara where his research focused on advanced topics in IP Multicast, Multimedia Networking and Distributed Systems. Having been a technical lead in nearly 40 commercial IPTV deployments, Dov now works to promote Best Practices for the design and deployment of IPTV over DSL and Fiber Access Networks.