Author: Ian Nock
Ian Nock is the Managing Director of Fairmile West Consulting, and has over 25 years experience in high technology research, development, and operations. Since entering the TV industry in the late 1990s, he has worked in the delivery of many Satellite, Cable, IPTV and OTT video platforms across Europe in diverse roles that encompass technology and operations from production to consumption. Ian moved into consulting in 2004 working with some of the most innovative vendor and operator companies in the industry. He founded Fairmile West Consulting (www.fairmilewest.com) in 2012 as a multi-national, high expertise Digital TV and Media consulting and professional services company, working with large/small operators and technology vendors on product/technology strategy, architecture, and delivery. Taking an early interest in the development of Ultra HD, Fairmile West has been a member of the Ultra HD Forum since 2015 and Ian is the Chair of the Ultra HD Forum Interop Working Group. Ian is also the Chair of the IET Multimedia Communications Technical Professional Network.
Ian graduated with a First Class Bachelors Degree in Engineering Technology in 1992 from Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), undertaking research into medical automation, flexible packaging dynamics and post graduate research into artificial intelligence based control systems with a number of published papers in those areas. He quickly jumped out of academia into the nascent Internet and Networking industry before moving into TV.
He is a member of the IET, IEEE, RTS and Fellow of the SCTE: The Society for Broadband Professionals. He blogs at http://fairmilewest.com, on LinkedIn and can be found on Twitter at @iannock.
What is an STB?
Youtube Breaks Ranks
Launching UHD HDR Services
Order to Disorder – Managing Service Entropy
Video in an all IP World – the back of a napkin view
CES, Real Life and TVs
What is UltraHD … a Primer
UltraHD Forum Validates HDR Best Practices through Post IBC Plugfest – Videonet
Ultra HD Market Update
UltraHD… a follow up
STBs are dead… or are they?
Hammer and Nails
Connected TV Summit 2016 Attendance
There is No Cloud…
Four more years…
What is good enough?
Fairmile West at BBWF and SCTE Autumn Lecture
