Renowned Networking Researcher Brings Expertise to FastForward Networks as Chief Scientist.Business/High-Tech Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 2000 FastForward(TM) Networks, the company that enables service providers to generate revenue from Internet broadcasting Internet Broadcasting (formerly Internet Broadcasting Systems), or IBS, is a provider of television station web sites. IBS hosts over 70 local stations' sites, and co-produced NBCOlympics. , today announced that Dr. Paul Francis Paul Franics (McKenna) is the weekend breakfast presenter on Belfast CityBeat. He formally presented programmes for Forth 1, Downtown Radio and Seven FM. [1] , a leading researcher in the networking industry, has joined FastForward Networks as chief scientist. Dr. Francis will work closely with the engineering staff to strengthen and extend the company's Internet broadcast infrastructure for the distribution and management of live broadcasts over the Internet. "Paul has over ten years of experience working with routing, multicast and content distribution--integral issues concerning Internet broadcasting," said Abhay Parekh, co-founder, president and chief executive officer of FastForward Networks. "His expertise in these core areas will be an asset to our management and engineering teams as we strive to create a comprehensive suite of products that address the market challenges that service providers are facing today." Dr. Francis has become one of the leading researchers in the networking arena since he began work in the field in 1987. He has specialized in the routing and addressing areas of networking, focusing on both research and protocol standardization, and has published over 30 articles on the subject. Dr. Francis invented network address translation (NAT (Network Address Translation) An IETF standard that allows an organization to present itself to the Internet with far fewer IP addresses than there are nodes on its internal network. ), the IP enhancement that currently prevents IP address exhaustion. He also created the concepts of shared multicast trees, "shortcut (1) In Windows, a shortcut is an icon that points to a program or data file. Shortcuts can be placed on the desktop or stored in other folders, and double clicking a shortcut is the same as double clicking the original file. routing," site multi-homing through multiple host addresses, and end-system application layer multicasting. Dr. Francis' published work, including six Sigcomm papers, are widely regarded as being among the most innovative in networking literature. "With the addition of Dr. Francis, FastForward Networks has acquired one of the most recognized and innovative researchers in the areas of network routing and multicasting," said Scott Bradner, senior technical consultant at Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. and co-director of the Transport Area in the IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force . "His knowledge and abilities should enhance FastForward Networks solutions for Internet broadcast distribution." Dr. Francis began his career in network researching while working with the Internet group in The MITRE Corp, a not-for-profit corporation A not-for-profit corporation is a corporation created by statute, government or judicial authority that is not intended to provide a profit to the owners or members. A corporation that is organized to provide profits to its owners or members is a for-profit corporation. combining systems engineering and information technology for innovative solutions. Since then, he has focused on routing and addressing for large-scale distributed systems for companies including Bellcore, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (日本電信電話株式会社 Corporation (NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform ), and ACIRI ACIRI AT&T Center for Internet Research at ICSI (Internet architecture research institute) . Dr. Francis joins FastForward Networks' management team, which includes executives from leading hardware, software, and Internet companies including AT&T, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Lucent Technologies, Network Appliance, Network Systems Corporation and Sun Microsystems. About FastForward Networks Founded in 1998 and based in San Francisco, FastForward Networks enables service providers to generate revenue from Internet broadcasting. Its management and distribution platform is the only way to deliver, measure and control live or pre-recorded content to a wide Internet audience at the time of broadcast, based on response and demand. FastForward Networks collaborates with market leaders to ensure a quality experience for viewers and listeners, while content providers realize the marketing and commerce potential of Internet broadcasting. Customers include leading content distributors such as Digital Island and The Real Broadcast Network. Recent investments in FastForward Networks include America Online, Enron Broadband Services, Inktomi, RealNetworks and Sun Microsystems. (c) 2000 FastForward Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. FastForward Networks, FastForward Networks logo, Broadcast Overlay Architecture, MediaBridge, MediaBridge ServerLink, and Broadcast Manager are trademarks of FastForward Networks, Inc. All other marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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