The Digital Media SIG Presents...
Evolution of Multimedia Home Networking
From just a handful of homes pre-wired with Cat-5 at the beginning of 2000, to over a million deployed homes by 2010, multimedia home networking has grown significantly over the past ten years. The last decade has seen introduction of several new physical layer and networking technologies for multimedia home networking; MoCA, 802.11n, HPNA, HomePlug, G.Hn, RVU Alliance, just to name a few. Several new industry initiatives were launched to bring interoperability and quality of user experience to the burgeoning multimedia home networking marketplace.
Please join us to get answers to these questions and more. We have invited a panel of industry veterans to give us an overview of the current state of multimedia home networking technologies and what to expect going forward in this decade --- or at least as far as their crystal ball can see. The panel will give an overview of various multimedia home networking standardization efforts, content protection technologies, new services and products to expect from both technology vendors and network operators in the upcoming years. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session where you will have an opportunity to ask further questions and get insider’s view on multimedia home networking.
At the Door:
$20.00 - CommNexus Sponsor
$30.00 - Non-Sponsor
FREE - Mentor Sponsor
Students, Military & Press: FREE
SIG CO-CHAIRS:
Marc Tayer, President, Media Tech Insights
Dan Sweeney, VP, Sales and Marketing, Solekai Systems
Vinay Sathe, Owner, Multirate Systems
Evolution of Multimedia Home Networking
The Road Ahead into the Next Decade
From just a handful of homes pre-wired with Cat-5 at the beginning of 2000, to over a million deployed homes by 2010, multimedia home networking has grown significantly over the past ten years. The last decade has seen introduction of several new physical layer and networking technologies for multimedia home networking; MoCA, 802.11n, HPNA, HomePlug, G.Hn, RVU Alliance, just to name a few. Several new industry initiatives were launched to bring interoperability and quality of user experience to the burgeoning multimedia home networking marketplace.
- What are the lessons learned from the last ten years? What are customers asking for? Will the growth continue?
- As operators deploy their home networks such as multi-room digital video recorders and users buy their own home networking products, will the home networking marketplace face more interoperability challenges?
- Are content owners concerned about allowing a user to store and re-use their content within a home network? What concerns do content providers have about content moving freely around the home?
- What industry efforts are underway to offer high quality, interoperable home networking marketplace to users?
- What new home networking products and services can you, as a consumer, expect in the next decade?
Please join us to get answers to these questions and more. We have invited a panel of industry veterans to give us an overview of the current state of multimedia home networking technologies and what to expect going forward in this decade --- or at least as far as their crystal ball can see. The panel will give an overview of various multimedia home networking standardization efforts, content protection technologies, new services and products to expect from both technology vendors and network operators in the upcoming years. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session where you will have an opportunity to ask further questions and get insider’s view on multimedia home networking.
PANELISTS:
Henry Derovanessian
VP Engineering, DIRECTV
President, RVU Alliance
Henry Derovanessian has more than 24 years of work history in planning and managing implementation of innovative product strategies and new business development initiatives around emerging and advanced technologies which enable delivery of digital media content over a broadband or broadcast network. Mr. Derovanessian is currently the VP Engineering at DIRECTV where he manages the development, verification, and validation of DIRECTV Set Top Box designs with focus on design for reliability, quality and conformance to specification and standards. Previously, Mr. Derovanessian was the Vice President Strategic Marketing and Business Development overseeing business unit's marketing and sales activities for system solutions that allow Cable, Satellite and Telco operators provide entertainment, communications, and information services for their subscribers. Mr. Derovanessian was responsible for overseeing business unit's overall strategy, new product definition plans and P&L for the set-top box, and digital television product lines. Before joining Conexant Systems Mr. Derovanessian was the Vice President of engineering at Sony Electronics where he successfully secured the two-way broadband interactive digital cable set top box business opportunity at a major North American Cable operator. This allowed for the first time Sony’s participation in the North American cable set top box market. While at Sony Mr. Derovanessian managed development of Sony’s satellite set top box receivers for DIRECTV network, architected and managed development of ATSC and OpenCableTM front-end subsystems for Sony Digital TV platforms deployed in North America, and Sony's first OpenCableTM certified high definition digital cable video recorder deployed in retail in North America. At General Instrument Corporation Mr. Derovanessian played a key role establishing the ATSC digital television standard as a member of the Grand Alliance. Henry is also the President of the recently formed RVU Alliance for promoting open industry adoption of remote user interface technology optimized for thin-client networked CE devices in the home.
Dr. Anton Monk
Co-founder and V.P. Technology, Entropic Communications
Anton is responsible for new technology initiatives and standards activities at Entropic. Previously, he led the engineering development of Entropic's coax-based multimedia networking chipset and technology which is now the de facto multimedia networking standard for service providers in the United States. He is CTO of the Multimedia over Coax Alliance and was previously involved in the development of cable and satellite integrated circuits at Conexant and ComStream Corporation and was a researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Tom Munro
CEO , Verimatrix, Inc.
Tom Munro has served as CEO of Verimatrix since April 2005. Earlier, he was President of Wireless Facilities, Inc. (WFI) a global leader in the design, deployment, and management of wireless mobility and broadband wireless networks. He served WFI as CFO from 1997 to 2000, through the company's successful IPO, and as President from September of 2000 until his retirement in January, 2003. Prior to joining WFI, Tom was founder and CEO of @Market, an online sporting goods retailer. Earlier, he was CFO of Precision Digital Images, an image processing technology firm in Redmond, Washington, after leaving MetLife Capital Corporation, a leading commercial finance company. At MCC from 1981 to 1994, Tom held a series of analytical, financial, and sales responsibilities including CFO of the company. Tom holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and an MBA from the University of Washington. Tom sits on the boards of Airgain Technologies, CommNexus, the Digital Watermarking Alliance, and Kineticom.
MODERATOR:
Vinay Sathe
Owner, Multirate Systems
Vinay Sathe has over 15 years of experience architecting digital video systems and products using the MPEG and Windows Media codec technologies. Vinay has served as a consultant to several companies including Cablelabs, where he drafted Opencable certification test plans, Tarari, where he architected a product based on the Windows Media encoding technology and Entropic Communications, where he was the editor of the MoCA home networking specification. Vinay is presently working as a Patent Attorney at Mcdermott, Will & Emery. He is also a co-chair of the CommNexus Digital Media SIG.
Henry Derovanessian
VP Engineering, DIRECTV
President, RVU Alliance
Henry Derovanessian has more than 24 years of work history in planning and managing implementation of innovative product strategies and new business development initiatives around emerging and advanced technologies which enable delivery of digital media content over a broadband or broadcast network. Mr. Derovanessian is currently the VP Engineering at DIRECTV where he manages the development, verification, and validation of DIRECTV Set Top Box designs with focus on design for reliability, quality and conformance to specification and standards. Previously, Mr. Derovanessian was the Vice President Strategic Marketing and Business Development overseeing business unit's marketing and sales activities for system solutions that allow Cable, Satellite and Telco operators provide entertainment, communications, and information services for their subscribers. Mr. Derovanessian was responsible for overseeing business unit's overall strategy, new product definition plans and P&L for the set-top box, and digital television product lines. Before joining Conexant Systems Mr. Derovanessian was the Vice President of engineering at Sony Electronics where he successfully secured the two-way broadband interactive digital cable set top box business opportunity at a major North American Cable operator. This allowed for the first time Sony’s participation in the North American cable set top box market. While at Sony Mr. Derovanessian managed development of Sony’s satellite set top box receivers for DIRECTV network, architected and managed development of ATSC and OpenCableTM front-end subsystems for Sony Digital TV platforms deployed in North America, and Sony's first OpenCableTM certified high definition digital cable video recorder deployed in retail in North America. At General Instrument Corporation Mr. Derovanessian played a key role establishing the ATSC digital television standard as a member of the Grand Alliance. Henry is also the President of the recently formed RVU Alliance for promoting open industry adoption of remote user interface technology optimized for thin-client networked CE devices in the home.
Dr. Anton Monk
Co-founder and V.P. Technology, Entropic Communications
Anton is responsible for new technology initiatives and standards activities at Entropic. Previously, he led the engineering development of Entropic's coax-based multimedia networking chipset and technology which is now the de facto multimedia networking standard for service providers in the United States. He is CTO of the Multimedia over Coax Alliance and was previously involved in the development of cable and satellite integrated circuits at Conexant and ComStream Corporation and was a researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Tom Munro
CEO , Verimatrix, Inc.
Tom Munro has served as CEO of Verimatrix since April 2005. Earlier, he was President of Wireless Facilities, Inc. (WFI) a global leader in the design, deployment, and management of wireless mobility and broadband wireless networks. He served WFI as CFO from 1997 to 2000, through the company's successful IPO, and as President from September of 2000 until his retirement in January, 2003. Prior to joining WFI, Tom was founder and CEO of @Market, an online sporting goods retailer. Earlier, he was CFO of Precision Digital Images, an image processing technology firm in Redmond, Washington, after leaving MetLife Capital Corporation, a leading commercial finance company. At MCC from 1981 to 1994, Tom held a series of analytical, financial, and sales responsibilities including CFO of the company. Tom holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and an MBA from the University of Washington. Tom sits on the boards of Airgain Technologies, CommNexus, the Digital Watermarking Alliance, and Kineticom.
MODERATOR:
Vinay Sathe
Owner, Multirate Systems
Vinay Sathe has over 15 years of experience architecting digital video systems and products using the MPEG and Windows Media codec technologies. Vinay has served as a consultant to several companies including Cablelabs, where he drafted Opencable certification test plans, Tarari, where he architected a product based on the Windows Media encoding technology and Entropic Communications, where he was the editor of the MoCA home networking specification. Vinay is presently working as a Patent Attorney at Mcdermott, Will & Emery. He is also a co-chair of the CommNexus Digital Media SIG.
DATE:
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
TIME:
7:30AM Registration/ Networking/ Refreshments
8:00AM Program Begins
9:30AM Program Ends
LOCATION:
3580 Carmel Mountain Road Suite 300
San Diego CA 92130
COST:
Pre-Registration: (Please pre-register by noon on 2/9/10)
$10.00 - CommNexus Sponsor
$20.00 - Non-Sponsor
FREE - Mentor Sponsor
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
TIME:
7:30AM Registration/ Networking/ Refreshments
8:00AM Program Begins
9:30AM Program Ends
LOCATION:
3580 Carmel Mountain Road Suite 300
San Diego CA 92130
COST:
Pre-Registration: (Please pre-register by noon on 2/9/10)
$10.00 - CommNexus Sponsor
$20.00 - Non-Sponsor
FREE - Mentor Sponsor
At the Door:
$20.00 - CommNexus Sponsor
$30.00 - Non-Sponsor
FREE - Mentor Sponsor
Students, Military & Press: FREE
SIG CO-CHAIRS:
Marc Tayer, President, Media Tech Insights
Dan Sweeney, VP, Sales and Marketing, Solekai Systems
Vinay Sathe, Owner, Multirate Systems
Questions? Contact Bailey Cunning at bcunning@commnexus.org
Date:
Wednesday, February 10, 20107:30AM-9:30AM
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