Technology Webinar - Video and Consumer Electronics - a Roadmap? - Recorded Webinar
Technology Webinar - January 28, 2009: Video and Consumer Electronics - a Roadmap? with Jim Farmer, Chief Network Architect for Enablence Technologies, FTTx Div.
Jim looks at compatibility issues between video service as provided in FTTH networks (both broadcast and IPTV), and over-the-top video, as defined by emerging TV features. He discusses what features are being incorporated in new sets and how this might work in FTTH networks. He also shows how sets that lack the new features just coming into the market can offer the same services using set top boxes. So this becomes a forward-looking session discussing the opportunities and pitfalls moving ahead with various video services in light of where the consumer electronics market is moving.
Jim Farmer is the Chief Network Architect for Enablence Technologies, FTTx Div. (formerly Wave7 Optics). He previously was with ANTEC, ESP, and Scientific-Atlanta.
Farmer holds approximately 90 patents related to cable TV and FTTH systems. He received the 1996 NCTA Vanguard Award in Technology, was inducted into the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Hall of Fame in 1997, and Cable Pioneers in 1998. He received the Chairman’s Award at the 2007 FTTH Conference.
Formerly the President of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society and current editor of its newsletter, Farmer also serves on a number of program committees and engineering committees. He is a member of the Fiber-to-the-Home Council, serving on its Planning Committee and as co-chair of its Conference Paper Selection Subcommittee. He has served on numerous industry committees during his career, under the auspices of FTTH Council, SCTE, NCTA, and IEEE.
Farmer co-authored Modern Cable Television: Video, Voice and Data Communications, the second edition of which was released in November 2003. He is co-author of the just-released (2009) Broadband Cable Access Networks. He has a large number of publications with NCTA, SCTE, IEEE, FTTH Council, and various commercial publications; he is a past columnist with CED Magazine, Communications Technology International Magazine, Communications Technology Magazine and The Broadband Library. He currently writes for The Prism, a fiber-to-the-home quarterly, as well as writing a number of company white papers and other industry tutorial pieces.
He graduated in 1967 with a BSEE, and in 1968 with an MSEE, both from the University of South Florida. He is a senior member of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and a Fellow of the IEEE.