Mr. Steve W. Rose is an interactive broadband server consultant with Pangrac & Associates. He started his career in the 1970s in video, became the chief engineer of a small Maui cable company, and ended the 1970s designing cable television automation equipment for CRC Electronics. CRC provided the tape automation equip-ment for the first Warner Qube system. CRC was later purchased by Texscan, so during the 1980s, Steve was a computer guy, working with multiuser and networked computers. In 1991, ATC (later Time Warner Cable) asked him to figure out how to provide video on demand for a system with a million subscribers, which launched him on a new career. In 1994, he worked with CableLabs on their Media Server RFI, visiting various server manufacturers and giving a tutorial at the resulting CableLabs meeting.