MidStream taps cable vets for tech board
Jeff Baumgartner,
CED
CED Broaband Direct, October 21, 2002
Video-on-demand start-up MidStream Technologies has
formed a new technical advisory board comprised of several cable
industry veterans. The disclosed members are:
Technical Advisory Board Chairman Stephen Dukes,
president and CEO of Imaginary Universes LLC. Dukes has held several
executive positions at top MSOs during this more than 26-year
engineering career, including positions at MediaOne Labs, MCNS
Holdings and CableLabs.
Doug Semon, vice president, consumer technology and
standards, Time Warner Cable. Prior to joining Time Warner Cable,
Semon was director of network operations and member of the executive,
technical and operations group for CableLabs.
Nick Hamilton-Piercy, senior technology advisory,
Rogers Cable Inc. Piercy previously was chief technology officer
for the Canada-based MSO.
Dr. Walter Ciciora, currently a consultant specializing
in cable television, consumer electronics and telecommunications
technology, writes a monthly column for CED magazine. Ciciora
was the vice president of technology at Time Warner Cable until
1993.
Keith Bechard, a consultant, most recently served
as vice president of technical product management for AT&T
Broadband. Bechard also held positions at MediaOne Labs, working
in areas such as video-on-demand and high-definition television.
MidStream said it expects to leverage the knowledge
of its new advisory board members "during all phases of the
company's growth."
Bellevue, Wash.-based MidStream, maker of next-generation VOD
servers with native Gigabit Ethernet support, raised $26 million
in a third round of funding. That gave the company an aggregate
$48 million, enough for a fully-funded business plan, MidStream
President and CEO Ed Huguez told CED in an August interview.
To date, MidStream has not announced any commercial deployments,
but the company is involved in a variety of trials with undisclosed
operators, and has secured a commitment from a top 10 U.S. MSO.
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