| Dr. Mario P. Vecchi is Senior
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of the Road
Runner Group (former Excalibur
Group), a Time Warner venture dedicated to the technical and business
development of the Road
RunnerTM broadband Internet data services to home personal computers,
using multimegabit per second cablemodems
over the broadband hybrid fiber/coax network. Road
RunnerTM is an end-to-end enabling infrastructure, based on TCP/IP
and related Internet technologies, that supports rich multimedia applications
to home PCs. Dr. Vecchi was one the the founders in 1994 of this new business
unit, and has been leading the technical activities from the first definition
of the product and its technology, through an initial field trial in 1995,
to the commercial deployment in over 12 cities to more than 2 million homes
passed and more than 30 thousand paying customers (January 1998 numbers).
The Road Runner service continues to grow rapidly, and the recent announcement
of the merging of efforts with the Media
One Express activities will further accelerate the expansion. Dr. Vecchi
is interested not only in the deployment of high-speed data applications
to residential PCs, but also in the integration with telecommunications
and interactive video entertainment, based on open, scalable and extensible
distributed systems architectures.
Dr. Vecchi had been Vice President,
Network Engineering at Time
Warner Cable, Engineering and Technology, Englewood, CO from 1994 to
1996, working on the Orlando Full Service Network Project. He worked at
Cable Labs for a short interval
as Vice President, Network Architecture Design and Development. Dr. Vecchi
was at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore),
Morristown, NJ. from 1986 to 1993, working in the Applied Research area.
Prior to that, he was the Head of the Semiconductors Laboratory of the
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas,
Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at the
Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela and he was a visiting
scientist at the IBM Watson Research
Center. In 1982, Dr. Vecchi was the founder and Managing Director of
XYNERTEK C.A., a venture company that designed and manufactured microcomputing
systems in Venezuela. He has published more than 60 technical and research
papers.
Dr. Vecchi holds Ph.D., E.E., and
S.M. degrees from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, received his B.S. degree from Cornell
University and the professional engineering degree from the Universidad
Central de Venezuela. Distinctions he has received include the Order
Andres Bello in Venezuela. He is a Senior Member of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and Member of the Society
of Cable Telecommunications Engineers.
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