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Satellite Internet Applications and Opportunities
  
  
Aaron Falk

Director, Advanced Product Development

NET-36, A PanAmSat Company

  

Aaron Falk identifies and integrates strategic technologies into the Net-36 broadband streaming network. He joined PanAmSat in 1999 where he worked on identifying the NET-36 business opportunity and developing the initial architecture.

Falk invented a system for satellite-based Internet access while a graduate student at University of Maryland Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communications Networks, which is currently being sold by Hughes Network Systems as the DirecPC Turbo Internet service. Following graduation he worked as a satellite system engineer at TRW where he developed on-board packet switching for the MILSTAR and Astrolink satellite networks. Subsequently, at Hughes Space and Communications, he was the network architect for the Spaceway system. Falk has chaired working groups in the Telecommunications Industry Association and Internet Engineering Task Force on Internet over satellite.

Falk currently chairs the Performance Implications of Link Characteristics (pilc) working group in the IETF.

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