Mr. Carl Podlesny is responsible for the worldwide strategic marketing of Scientific-Atlanta’s CoAxiom ™ integrated cable telephone system. He has held various senior marketing and engineering positions with telecommunications equipment manufacturers such as Ericsson, Northern Telecom, and Siemens. As Director of Engineering at Microtel (Boca Raton, Florida), one of the earliest competitive access and intra/interLATA carriers, Mr. Podlesny deployed the largest capacity single-mode fiber optic transmission system of its time. While at Siemens, he was responsible for their Passive Optical Network Fiber-In-The-Loop distribution system. He also developed some very early fiber optic video transmission equipment that was used by the cable industry and the ABC television network. His background in telephony, cable, and television broadcasting provides him with a unique perspective on the cost effectiveness and capabilities of the many broadband architectures that are competing today to be the information highway distribution technology of the future. Mr. Podlesny received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.