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Rouzbeh Yassini ((ペルシア語:روزبه یاسینی)), Ph.D., "Father of the Cable Modem",〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Cisco Press Author Rouzbeh Yassini, Father of the Cable Modem, Tells How Broadband Will Change Our Lives )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe4TTQpKi4g )〕 is an Iranian-American author, inventor, and engineer,〔 who has gained an international reputation as a "broadband visionary" for his pioneering work in broadband industry and inventing the cable modem,〔〔 establishing the cable modem industry standards (DOCSIS) through Cable Television Laboratories (CableLabs), the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).〔 He is Executive Director of the University Of New Hampshire Broadband Center Of Excellence〔 and the CEO of YAS Capital Partners.〔 Yassini is the author of “Planet Broadband” (Cisco Press, 2003), a humanized look at broadband technology and its contributions to the society,〔 as well as “Broadband Intelligent Series”, a series of white papers on digital services (voice, data, video). He is a worldwide speaker and is often interviewed and quoted in the press for his vision on the future of broadband. His life time vision and dream is that all the people in the world have ubiquitous access to the broadband and be connected all the time. He believes that broadband connectivity is a fundamental right for all the human beings, what he has referred to it frequently as "Broadband Equality". Yassini is founder, CEO, and president of LANcity,〔〔〔 the early pioneer in cable modems (acquired by Bay Networks in 1996). He has worked with Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs) a research arm of the cable television industry in charge of the DOCSIS and on CableHome projects as the cable industry’s point man on standardizing the cable modem’s global footprint.〔〔 He has served as a senior executive consultant to the cable industry’s CEOs while being president and CEO of YAS.〔 He also has worked with Comcast and Cablevision on numerous programs relating to innovation of broadband technologies. From 2004-2007, Yassini worked with the CTO’s office at Comcast to create the first industry standard IP-Set top Box specification known as the RNG specification.〔〔 He has been involved in managing and advising companies ranging from $100 million to $50 billion and served as member of the board of directors on BAS (acquired by ADC in 2000), TrueChat (acquired by Terayon in 2001), and Entropic from 2001 to 2008 (IPO 2007), and UPC Technical Advisory Committee.〔〔 He created and chairs the Vendor and Operator Executive Advisory Forum of the U.S. Cable Center.〔 He has been a member of the Liberty Global Inc. (LGI) advisory technology board since 2001.〔 Yassini has been a director of Visteon since January 2015. Working for more than 30 years in the broadband industry and achieving major accomplishments, Yassini received many awards from different organizations. He was named multiple times as CED Broadband 50 designate.〔 CED Magazine named him “1998 Man of the Year” for creating and fostering the multibillion-dollar cable modem broadband industry.〔 The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) awarded Yassini with a 2004 Vanguard Award, the Cable Industry’s highest honor in recognition of his contributions and dedication to the industry.〔 The Cable Television Pioneers also inducted Yassini into the class of 2012 for his tremendous and meaningful contributions to the cable industry.〔〔 He is a member of the Lane Department Academy as well as West Virginia University Academy of Distinguished Alumni.〔 ==Life and career== Born in Tehran, Iran, Yassini went to Kharazami high school and attended University of Pahlavi for one year before immigrating to the United States in 1977. Settling in Morgantown, WV, he continued his education at WVU, pursuing a bachelor's degree in Science and Electrical Engineering. As a senior, he was fascinated by the burgeoning satellite communications industry, and toiled with classmates to build one of the first 3.7 – 4.2 GHz down converters.〔 Upon graduation in 1981, he was recruited by General Electric, the place that entered him into high-tech industry.〔 In 1984 he had his first brush with the cable TV industry, working with GE’s Comband division developing the company's first 5,000-gate custom designed set-top chip.〔 After numerous promotions, as the "Engineering Manager for Cable TV systems and microwave" he left GE in 1986 to work for Proteon a data networking company manufacturing token ring networking products like routers and bridges.〔 It was at Proteon, that the idea of using the same cable for transmitting video and data came to him. Though, people told him video and data couldn't mix. From 1988 to 1990 he oversaw Applitek, a data networking company, as president and CEO where he was persuaded that mixing video and data is possible, although the vision remained on hold until 1990 when he bought Applitek's assets and formed LANcity where the cable modem was born and the DNA of broadband was built.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rouzbeh Yassini」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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