Verizon Communications

Ivan Seidenberg is the Chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications. Seidenberg began his career in telecommunications as a lineman's assistant straight from high school. He was wounded in Vietnam, and subsequently earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the City University of New York and an... MBA from Pace University. Seidenberg started his career as a cable splicer's assistant, eventually becoming head of NYNEX. He took a senior position in Bell Atlantic after that company merged with NYNEX. When Bell Atlantic became Verizon Seidenberg was sole CEO of the company. In 2006, Seidenberg donated $15 million to Pace University. Pace’s School of Computer Science and Information Systems was officially renamed the Ivan G. Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. In 2007, President George W. Bush named Seidenberg to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, which advises the president on communications issues related to national security, emergency preparedness and the protection of critical infrastructure. Seidenberg is chairman of the Business Roundtable.
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New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over global commerce, finance, media, culture, art, fashion,... research, education, and entertainment. As host of the United Nations Headquarters, it is also an important center for international affairs. The city is often referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the state of New York, of which it is a part. Located on a large natural harbor on the Atlantic coast of the Northeastern United States, the city consists of five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. The city's 2009 estimated population approached 8.4 million, and with a land area of 305 square miles , New York City is the most densely populated major city in the United States. The New York metropolitan area's population is also the nation's largest, estimated at 19.1 million people over 6,720 square miles .
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Entropic Communications is a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets system solutions to enable connected home entertainment. Our technology significantly changes the way high-definition television quality video, or HD video, and other multimedia content such as movies, music, games and photos are brought into and delivered throughout the home. Entropic is a pioneer of key technologies that enable connected home... networking of digital entertainment over existing coax and is a founding member of MoCA, a global home networking consortium that sets standards for the distribution of video and other multimedia entertainment over coax.Entropic products include: home networking chipsets based on the MoCA standardhigh-speed broadband access chipsetsintegrated circuits, or ICs, that simplify digital broadcast satellite, or DBS, servicessilicon TV tuner ICs.These products allow telecommunication carriers, or telcos, cable multiple service operators, or MSOs, and DBS service providers to enhance and expand their service offerings and reduce deployment costs in an increasingly competitive environment. Entropic's home networking solutions capitalize on the worldwide conversion of multimedia content from analog to digital. Multimedia content is now easy to store on DVRs, gaming consoles, DVD recorders and PCs. The ability to store this content on various devices has created "islands" of digital entertainment within the home. Our products bridge these islands and allow consumers to access their multimedia content throughout the home. Today, we are the only high-volume supplier of MoCA-compliant chipsets, which can be embedded in a wide variety of consumer electronic devices. Service providers can employ our solutions to offer consumer applications such as multi-room DVR, multi-room and online gaming, PC to TV personal content sharing, and streaming of downloaded movies stored on a PC to any TV. Founded in January 2001, Entropic has assembled a team with vast expertise in video communications, networking algorithms and protocols, system-on-a-chip, or SoC, design, embedded software, mixed signal and RF_IC design, and communications and RF systems. We use our considerable experience with service provider-based deployments to create solutions that address the complex requirements associated with delivering multiple streams of HD video into and throughout the home, while seamlessly coexisting with video, voice and data services using the same coax infrastructure. Entropic's investors include: Anthem Venture Partners; Cisco Systems; CMEA Ventures; Comcast Interactive Capital; Conexant; Cox Communications; The Dow Employees Pension Plan; EchoStar Satellite LLC; Freescale Semiconductor; Focus Ventures; Granite Ventures; Intel Capital; Liberty Associated Partners, LP; Mission Ventures; Motorola; Mototech; Panasonic; Redpoint Ventures; Revolution Ventures; Saints Capital Belvedere, LP; ST; Texas Instruments; Time Warner; Verizon and; YAS Broadband Ventures.
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