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| Home Gateway Initiative Announces New CTO The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) has announced the appointment of Duncan Bees, formerly Technical Advisor at PMC-Sierra, to the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the industry forum representing operators and vendors in the home networking space. Duncan, who is based in Vancouver, succeeds Paolo Pastorino, who will return to his role at Telecom Italia following his three year tenure at the HGI. Prior to this appointment, Duncan was the co-chair of the HGI QoS working group. At PMC-Sierra, Duncan worked closely with carriers to understand home networking requirements and to translate those into specifications for Home Gateway and ONT chips. He also led standards and product road-mapping for interconnect chips, backplane switches, access devices, and VOIP chips. Whilst at PMC-Sierra, Duncan represented the company with other industry fora, including the Broadband Forum (then DSL Forum), DLNA, ITU, IETF, PCI_SIG and RapidIO. Previously, he worked at Bell Northern Research and Northern Telecom, where he led Research and Development teams delivering products for CDMA wireless and voice recognition. The HGI's current work program includes Home Gateway energy efficiency, Home Gateway requirements for working with external Network Termination devices, Small Business Gateway requirements and several other key projects that will enable services and extension of QoS in the home network. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Networking News :: home page |