Digital delivery - Getting content to the consumer

Content to the home ‘We’re halfway along the road to full convergence and we have voice networks struggling to deliver data and data networks trying to deliver voice and video.’ Hear firsthand from the Chairman of the Broadband Communications Research Consortium how the industry proposes to deliver content for the consumer of the future • Realise the current means for video, audio and data delivery to the home • Discover broadband wireless systems in their role as fixed wireless access technologies • Be amongst the first to hear plans for new developments; VDSL2, WiMAX 2 and DVB-T2, new network topologies including passive optical networks and peer to peer systems

Stephen Lowe Stephen started his career at Mullard Research Laboratories where he worked on the masers for the Telstar trans-Atlantic television satellite. He moved to the BBC in 1968 beginning in the videotape section of Engineering Designs. He joined Television News in 1977 where he helped to develop the Electronic News Gathering systems and high speed film processing equipment. He became Worldwide Training Manager for Ampex Corporation providing technical and operator training on their range of broadcast and military equipments. From Ampex Stephen joined the team buidling the innovative Westcountry Television facility in Plymouth. He then was project director for the construction of the Eurobell, now Virgin Media, cable telephony and television franchises in Devon and Kent. During his time as Product Development Director for Eurobell he led their team in a number of European wireless broadband projects including the construciton of a 40GHz broadband and television system in Moscow. Stephen left Virgin Media's technical strategy group in September 2007 to work with the Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network, a group sponsored by the Technical Strategy Board. He is also active in an number of communications groups including the Electronic Communications Recovery and Resilience Group, Lancaster University's Broadband Communications Research Consortium project and as chairman of the Broadband Wireless Association.