Tuesday, March 6 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM Session D: Speeding Up, Content Peering and Jump Starting Streams With the tremendous technological talent and resources focused on the needs of the content owners and streaming delivery, unbelievable progress is being made in the services and products available to enhance the user experience. Networks can be enhanced and managed to maximize performance. Prioritization software and peering and caching enhancement services are now an integral part of the streaming process. In this session, we bring together specialists in the effort to break to logjam and ensure that your streaming content arrives in a perfect performance. Christoper Levy, Chief Technology Manager for Streaming Media Division, NaviSite, a CMGI Company Thomas Pinckney, founder and CTO, Vividon Arthur Allen, Chief Scientist, Burst.com Fritz Mueller, Senior Director of Product Management, Keynote Systems Dr. Sanjoy Paul, Vice President of Technology, Edgix Corp. Mark Wagnon, Cheif Architect, Content Delivery Business Unit, Network Appliance Ben H. Davis, Strategic Development Director Media & Entertainment, Razorfish Los Angeles, Moderator Edward Sharp, Director of Business Development for the Content Delivery Business Unit, Network Appliance: Edward Sharp joined Network Appliance in 1998 as the senior manager, business development for the content delivery business unit at Network Appliance. In that time Edward has been instrumental in bringing a benchmark process to the caching arena, developing protocols for caching, promoting the streaming media market, fostering the next generation of internet content, and developing the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (iCAP). Before joining Network Appliance in 1998, Edward began his career at McKinsey & Co., as internationally renowned consulting firm, where he focused on strategic issues facing evolving markets in Europe. Previous to McKinsey & Co., Edward worked for the government of Jamaica to identify the key issues facing the water utility, and then execute the recovery strategy in a key tourism area. He received an MBA from Stanford University specializing in Electrical Engineering and a BS in Economics and Management from Oxford University. Ben H. Davis is a Strategic Development Director in Media and Entertainment at Razorfish, Inc., Los Angeles. Davis came to Razorfish in 2000 from the J. Paul Getty Trust where he was Manager of Electronic Publications and Manager of Communications. Davis came to the Getty in 1995 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a Research Associate, Manager of the AthenaMuse Software Consortium, and Manager of the Project Athena Visual Computing Group (1987-1991). He was also an Instructor at the MIT Media Lab, a Fellow at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and a lecturer in the MIT Visual Arts Program. Thomas Pinckney, founder and CTO, Vividon: Mr. Pinckney founded Vividon in 1998. As CTO, Tom helps determine the company’s future direction and is Vividon’s technology evangelist. Tom has been instrumental in building the organization, developing the corporate and product strategy, negotiating a technology license that provided Vividon’s early operating funds and obtaining venture funding. Prior to founding Vividon (originally known as Exotec), Pinckney was working towards his Ph.D. at MIT, where he served as a research assistant at MIT’s Laboratory for Computer Science Parallel and Distributed Operating System Group. While at MIT, Tom co-authored a paper on the Application Performance and Flexibility of Exokernel Systems. This basic technology became the foundation for the Vividon product. In 1999, Tom was chosen as one of MIT Technology Review’s top “100 Young Innovators” in the world. Tom earned B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in computer science and engineering, with an emphasis on computer system research, from MIT. Dr. Sanjoy Paul, Vice President of Technology, Edgix Corp: In his new role as Vice President of Technology at Edgix, Dr. Paul brings years of technology expertise, specifically in the areas of caching, streaming, multicasting, transport, network and link-layer protocol issues, formal methods, security, and mobile networking.  Dr. Paul is known internationally for his contributions to the field of reliable multicasting. He designed the Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol (RMTP) now being actively pursued for standardization in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Additionally, he was the chief architect and visionary of Lucent's IPWorX caching product line. Dr. Paul holds ten U.S patents, has been widely published in international conferences and journals, and has served on the program committees of several IEEE conferences. He is the co-recipient of 1997 William R. Bennett award from IEEE Communications Society for the best original paper in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking in 1996. Author of the book "Multicasting on the Internet and its Applications", published by Kluwer Academic Press in May 1998, he also served as the guest editor of IEEE Network Magazine's special issue on Multicasting and sits on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Dr. Paul is an adjunct faculty member of the Computer Science Department and the Internet Technical Institute of Rutgers University. He is a senior member of IEEE and a voting member of the ACM.  Dr. Paul received his Bachelor of Technology degree (M'92-SM'97) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, followed by M.S and Ph.D. degrees from University of Maryland, College Park, in 1988 and 1992 respectively. Fritz Mueller is the Senior Director of Product Management and has been at Keynote since 1996. Fritz brings 14 years of technical and product marketing expertise in networking products and services. Prior to Keynote, Fritz was a Product Line Manager at NetManage (NASDAQ: NETM) for their TCP/IP software for PCs. Fritz also served as Product Manager for Telebit's line of IP routers and as engineer for Telebit Corporation writing digital signal processing software. Fritz holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. Christopher Levy is the Chief Technology Manager for the Streaming Media Division at NaviSite, a CMGI Company.: As the Chief Technology Manager for the Streaming Media Division at NaviSite, Levy is responsible for the development of streamOS, the industry's first Content Management and Delivery Platform. Under Levy’s guidance, NaviSite provides sophisticated streaming media solutions to a variety of clients including Microsoft, KPMG, Anheuser-Busch, NFL Films, Reciprocal, Grand Royal Records, MediaX Technologies and others. A pioneer in the WebCasting space, Levy founded ClickHear Productions in June 1997which was acquired by NaviSite in February 2000. While at ClickHear, he spearheaded the delivery of over 2,500 Web Casts with President Bill Clinton, Anheuser-Busch, Intel/Microsoft, Mariah Carey, N’ Snyc, Cindy Margolis, NBC, CNN, Showtime, TNT, Playboy, Bloomberg TV, John Glenn’s Return to Space for NASA, the X-Files Premiere for Turner, The Rush Limbaugh and Art Bell shows for Premiere Radio Networks, TLC, Tori Amos and Alanis Morrisette on MP3.com, and Meat Loaf on VH1.com. Levy's team developed a signal acquisition and broadcast delivery center for INTERVU, which was recently acquired by Akamai Technologies for $3 billion. Previously, he has spoken at Streaming Media West, DDMI, South by SouthWest (SXSW.com), nationally syndicated radio, CNN and has appeared in numerous publications including B2B Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, StreamingMedia.com, Hits Magazine and others. Mark Wagnon, chief architect, content delivery business unit at Network Appliance is responsible for pioneering streaming networks that have created new revenue-generating opportunities for this market segment. Wagnon has designed convergence networks for over 14 years and is widely recognized as one of the industry’s most innovative media architects. His work and dedication in the development of the e-commerce enabled interactive television continues to help drive this technology as the standard of the new media economy. Wagnon has driven new network designs at Ford, EarthLink and Digital Island. Arthur Allen, Chief Scientist, Burst.com: Arthur D. Allen is the chief scientist at Burst.com, where he has been employed since July 1998. His activities at Burst have included the conception of a novel multi-layer server architecture for streaming video and "live" performances over the Internet. This work encompassed the development of a number of groundbreaking call admission control (CAC) and optimal content flow modulation algorithms (patents pending). These algorithms deliver markedly improved quality of service to the end-user, while optimizing a server’s ability to accept clients and deliver content. Over the years Mr. Allen has been active as a consultant and researcher. While at Cellnet Data Systems he established the system architecture of a large-scale metropolitan-area digital cellular network serving the needs of the Electric Utilities nation-wide and in the UK. He has presented papers at leading international conference (such as OOPSLA and AAAI’s Autonomous Agent conference) bearing on his research into advanced event-driven object and agent architectures. Mr. Allen holds BS and MS degrees in EECS from UC Berkeley.