Thomas Kernen

Current

Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems

Past

IP Network & Development Manager at SIG
co-founder & Chief Technical Officer at BlueStream Communications
co-founder & Technical Advisor at The DataState Group

co-founder & Technical Director at Deckpoint

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Education

Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Genève

Recommended

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Connections

475 connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

Thomas Kernen’s Summary

Thomas Kernen’s Specialties:

IP network designs for VoIP, Multicast, Video over IP.
Security and "intelligence" in the network edge/access, including home gateways and set top boxes.
Service Provider Bi-lateral peering negociations.

Video Broadcasting and IPTV over IP networks. IP enabled Video Head-Ends.
Video SD/HD standards in IP networks such as MPEG-2, H.264 AVC, VC-1. Quality of Experience, Forward Error Correction.

Thomas Kernen’s Experience

Consulting Engineer

Cisco Systems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Telecommunications industry)

March 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Focus on Video Architectures for Broadcasters and IPTV, Video head-ends, Video Quality Measurement, Quality of Experience, Audio and Video codecs.
IP Network & Development Manager

SIG

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

November 2002 — February 2006 (3 years 4 months)

Managing technical vendors & partner relationships, network and services design & deployment, technology R&D.

Lead Network Architect for a Fibre to the Home Triple Play (Internet, TV/VOD & Telephony) network based on a Equal Access Network design.
co-founder & Chief Technical Officer

BlueStream Communications

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

April 2001 — July 2002 (1 year 4 months)

Management of technical resources worldwide, designing and building an international IP network for Voice over IP services.
co-founder & Technical Advisor

The DataState Group

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

December 2000 — March 2001 (4 months)

Technical advisory to the group during the creation of the daughter companies.
co-founder & Technical Director

Deckpoint

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

July 1997 — November 2000 (3 years 5 months)

Designing, engineering and deploying wide area TCP/IP networks. Managing network security, dial-up systems and circuit provisioning for the ISP business.

Thomas Kernen’s Education

Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Genève

Civil Engineering 1991 — 1994

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Thomas Kernen’s Interests:

Packet based networks, Architecture, Interior design, Home Cinema/Theater, IPTV, HDTV, Wardriving, Wine tasting

Thomas Kernen’s Groups:

Traceroute.org, IEEE, IEEE ComSoc, Broadcast Technology Society, DVB Forum, IETF, DSL Forum, NANOG, RIPE, SwiNOG, TCN (The Communications Network), SMPTE