Jonathan Christensen - Jonathan Christensen has more than 15 years of experience shaping strategy for the growth of IP communications in start-ups and world class organizations such as Skype, Microsoft, and Time Warner.
In 2005, Jonathan co-founded Camino Networks where he was CEO until it was acquired by Skype. He is currently a senior member of the Skype team leading core technology development for audio and video, as well as initiatives for voice quality, network interconnect, and business adoption.
Prior to Skype/Camino, Jonathan was CTO and VP of products at FaceTime Communications, where he led the company's product strategy in a shift from call center applications to real time communications security solutions.
At Microsoft, Jonathan lead program management for the company's Real-Time Communications group and delivered the first generation of its SIP based products (aka Live Communications Server). Christensen also held group manager roles in the Network Solutions Groups and MSN Voice Services groups where he was responsible for business and product development.
Prior to joining Microsoft Corporation, Jonathan held management positions at Time Warner, pioneering commercial Internet services including access, hosting, and Web design. While at Time Warner, he was instrumental in bringing to market the first generation of consumer broadband services.
Jonathan has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a Bachelor of Arts in Law and Society from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
The PSTN has been bandwidth limited from its inception. This was done to keep equipment costs down. But is 3kHz really enough to get your point across?
Wideband audio has emerged in services like Skype and with today's low cost, silicon based manufacturing and the move to all IP transmission there is an opportunity to finally break through the POTS bandwidth barrier.
Jonathan discusses the complex audio codec landscape and put forth a proposal for how we [the Industry] can make wideband audio ubiquitous.
The talk sounds pretty interesting, yet, the camera only shoots the man speaking, and not the presentation materials he's using to get his ideas across. This renders this speech useless for the most part. This is like watching a movie by audio podcast only.
Sometimes we're not able to get the multimedia for the videos we post, which is unfortunately the case for all of the content from eComm. Apologies and thanks for the feedback Arianne.
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Trevar Mazza Director of Media Production