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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