Spyglass Integration Names Industry Veteran as Chief Technical Officer; Gordon Bechtel, Ph.D., to Lead Company's Strategic Technical Initiatives.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2002 Spyglass Integration, a leading systems integrator for the interactive television marketplace and a subsidiary of OpenTV (Nasdaq:OPTV) and (Euronext Amsterdam:OPTV), today announced the appointment of 20-year engineering veteran Gordon Bechtel, Ph.D. as the company's chief technical officer. Bechtel will lead the company's strategic technical initiatives and be responsible for technical oversight of all client engagements. Bechtel is a pioneer in the field of digital video systems. He has combined a broad knowledge of video technologies such as media compression and decompression decompression /de·com·pres·sion/ (de?kom-presh´un) removal of pressure, especially from deep-sea divers and caisson workers to prevent bends, and from persons ascending to great heights. , conditional access Conditional Access (acronymized CA) is the protection of content by requiring certain criteria to be met before granting access to this content. The term is commonly used in relation to digital television systems, most notably satellite television. , transport systems and software with a strong focus on the customer to drive many successful commercial solutions offered by AT&T Bell Laboratories, General Instrument, and Motorola. He has provided industry consultation to network operators, interactive service providers, and digital cable infrastructure vendors to address the constraint-driven realities of designing, implementing, integrating, and deploying digital multimedia content and interactive services by multiple system operators (MSOs). Most recently, Bechtel served as the director of architecture for the Acadia Application Integration Center (now part of Motorola), providing technical direction related to interactive TV services developed for Motorola's DigiCable network. Previously, Bechtel was with Objective Communications (now Video Network Communications), where as the director of ATM engineering he led the development of a video PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). system. He was also co-founder and chief technical officer of Stout Technologies, a consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a focused in the design and implementation of multimedia networks. Prior to founding Stout Technologies, he was part of the AT&T Bell Labs team that designed, implemented and deployed the first end-to-end digital video delivery system. "Gordon's experience overseeing the integration and development of iTV products and solutions makes him a tremendous addition to Spyglass Integration's executive team," said Mark Huttemann, president of Spyglass Integration. "As the leading independent systems integrator to focus solely on interactive television, Spyglass Integration stands to benefit from Gordon's strong technical expertise with digital TV technology as it provides our clients with experience and knowledgeable insight required in support of their interactive services integration efforts." Bechtel was awarded his Ph.D. in electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, N.Y.; coeducational; founded and opened 1824 as Rensselaer School; chartered 1826. It was called Rensselaer Institute from 1837 to 1861. for developing a novel bandwidth efficient modulation modulation, in communications modulation, in communications, process in which some characteristic of a wave (the carrier wave) is made to vary in accordance with an information-bearing signal wave (the modulating wave); demodulation is the process by which and coding scheme for the pulse width pulse width Pulse duration Cardiac pacing The duration of a pacing pulse in msecs constrained con·strain tr.v. con·strained, con·strain·ing, con·strains 1. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige: felt constrained to object. See Synonyms at force. 2. optical channel. About Spyglass Integration Spyglass Integration -- a leading independent iTV systems integrator that brings together the industry's brightest iTV minds and a state-of-the-art testing and integration lab. An independent organization with investment backing by Motorola's Broadband Communications Sector and OpenTV (Nasdaq:OPTV) and (Euronext Amsterdam:OPTV), Spyglass Integration offers a comprehensive suite of professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. including solution validation, pre-launch trial integration and management, mass deployment, interactive broadband application consulting and implementation, and a showcase application demonstration and evaluation center. More information on Spyglass Integration is available at www.spyglassintegration.com |
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