SCTE Hires Its First CTO

By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 7/26/2010 12:01:00 AM

The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers — as part of an increased focus on Internet-protocol networking — has tapped broadband expert Daniel Howard to be the association’s first chief technology officer.

Howard was CTO of Digital Furnace, a startup that developed software to boost DOCSIS upstream capacity that was acquired by Broadcom in 2000. He co-authored CableLabs’ DOCSIS 1.1 and 2.0 specifications, and at Broadcom was a lead developer on the company’s primary DOCSIS 3.0 patent.

Most recently, Howard was CTO of VQLink, a developer of digital video quality measurement and monitoring technology. Before that he was a broadband systems architect with Motorola, and prior to that was CEO of interactive-TV startup Quadrock Communications.

At SCTE, he will be responsible educational initiatives focusing on cable’s IP delivery that will help the industry reduce costs and optimize network performance. Howard reports to SCTE CEO Mark Dzuban.

“Daniel Howard is really leading the ability to create IP-centric content … to help define those areas that we should support on an ongoing basis,” Dzuban said.