Full Name
gerard Phillips
Job Title
Systems Engineer
Company
Arista Networks
Speaker Bio
"Gerard is a Systems Engineer at Arista Networks, a role which involves providing deep technical and architectural support to customers during the design, installation and running of complex IP infrastructure.
Before joining Arista almost 4 years ago, Gerard spent 22 years at the cutting edge of broadcast technology development with Snell and Wilcox, Snell and finally SAM. His experience ranges from designing composite decoders, de-interlacers, motion compensated standards converters through to helping to shape the company’s IP strategy – you’ll find Gerard listed as one of the contributors to the VSF’s TR-03, much of which eventually became ST2110. Gerard was an AMWA board member for SAM, and now fulfils that role for Arista Networks.
At Arista, Gerard provides technical and architectural support to customers throughout their IP journey, covering general Data Centre applications, as well as providing a strong Media and Entertainment focus throughout EMEA, and Globally when needed.
This mix of broadcast heritage, and deep understanding of the world of Ethernet/IP switching and routing allows Gerard to provide invaluable support to broadcasters looking to make the move from SDI to IP for Live Production."
Before joining Arista almost 4 years ago, Gerard spent 22 years at the cutting edge of broadcast technology development with Snell and Wilcox, Snell and finally SAM. His experience ranges from designing composite decoders, de-interlacers, motion compensated standards converters through to helping to shape the company’s IP strategy – you’ll find Gerard listed as one of the contributors to the VSF’s TR-03, much of which eventually became ST2110. Gerard was an AMWA board member for SAM, and now fulfils that role for Arista Networks.
At Arista, Gerard provides technical and architectural support to customers throughout their IP journey, covering general Data Centre applications, as well as providing a strong Media and Entertainment focus throughout EMEA, and Globally when needed.
This mix of broadcast heritage, and deep understanding of the world of Ethernet/IP switching and routing allows Gerard to provide invaluable support to broadcasters looking to make the move from SDI to IP for Live Production."
Speaking At
TTC 2021 Speaker Type
Roundtable
Topic and Description
Roundtable Topic: How to do PTP/ST 2059 successfully - Ask the PTP experts
Description: If PTP/ST 2059 is done right, it works very well. This requires doing the design, implementation, commissioning, and operations properly. Unfortunately, there are many ways to do it wrong. This roundtable is an opportunity to ask the PTP experts your PTP questions so you can have a successful PTP deployment.
Description: If PTP/ST 2059 is done right, it works very well. This requires doing the design, implementation, commissioning, and operations properly. Unfortunately, there are many ways to do it wrong. This roundtable is an opportunity to ask the PTP experts your PTP questions so you can have a successful PTP deployment.