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JR Walden began his career working for the US Department of Defense in military research where he was introduced to mainframes, supercomputers and the Internet. He spent two years working on missile guidance technology and three additional years on fuse concept development and 3D imaging technology. Later, while working for defense contractors Comarco and Science Application International Corporation, he became involved with and ultimately managed an early municipal dial-up Internet business. He then began working with Mediacom and founded their Internet business with his first broadband deployment in early 1997. He was promoted to Senior Vice President of Technology in 2008 and named CTO in 2015. JR currently runs technology and engineering for Mediacom, including video, Internet, phone and enterprise products. He is the 2002 recipient of Mediacom's Chairman's Award, Multichannel News 40 under Forty for 2010 and the 2016 recipient of the NCTA Vanguard award for Science and Technology.
PANEL: WELCOME TO 10G: WHY DOCSIS MAY NEVER DIE
While cablecos are still wrapping up their DOCSIS 3.1 rollouts, industry technologists are looking to the future with the new Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 spec designed to enable the delivery of symmetrical speeds as high as 10 Gbps over the same spectrum. In addition, cable engineers are weighing a potential "Extended Spectrum DOCSIS" spec that would support symmetrical speeds of 30 Gbps or more as they keep rolling out more fiber. Yet both initiatives, which require deep fiber builds and more RF spectrum, raise key technical, operational and financial issues. How long can cable keep riding the DOCSIS train? Won’t PON over fiber lines sooner or later take its place? Our experts will tackle the issues.
