Tom Starr: Vision and Leadership in VDSL Technology

For almost two decades, Tom Starr has led the DSL standards effort in the U.S., as Ameritech became part of SBC which became AT&T. That's now been honored with the AT&T Science and Technology Medal "For vision and leadership in developing and standardizing VDSL technology." (Tom's the second from the left.)

Tom, along with Gavin Young, John Cioffi, and several others still active in the industry defined DSL standards in the early 1990's that remain effective today. Before the equipment was available, they created models of interference and power spectral densities. They had to work only by theory in the early days. I remember predictions by senior engineers that by now we'd have unsolvable interference problems, Today, hundreds of millions of connections prove that the work of T1E1.4 was on target.

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Other winners involved with AT&T's U-verse effort included:

Alicia Abella - For technical innovation and leadership in dialog engineering and analysis. One of her projects is IPTV Service Applications: Build a community system around entertainment by connecting television, movies, music and radio shows to instant messaging and audio/video chat. Enables friends and family to virtually congregate while watching television or listening to music.

Dr. Ahmad Ansari - For technical contributions during the specification and testing of the U-verse STB

Frank Jiang - For technical leadership and innovation in establishing
data collection framework for access/home network.Written by Dave Burstein


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