Victor Blake Bio

Victor Blake is an experienced strategist, architect and operations engineer. He also has significant marketing and product management experience.  Mr. Blake is an advisor and consultant for service providers and vendors. He has done work for companies, including multiple cable operators, ISPs, Foundry Networks, Redback Networks, PMC-Sierra, etc. At Bright House Networks (BHN), Mr. Blake initiated a converged services project integrating all network services into a single IP network. He has been involved in wireless networks since 1998. At BHN, he deployed a Layer 2 mobility system, the first high-speed metro WiFi network in North American supporting seamless mobility. He was active in the development of DOCSIS 3.0 and in particular the IPv6 requirements for DOCSIS. Today, he is active in SCTE, IEEE, and ITU-T standards work in PON access technologies for cable. Prior to BHN, he was the manager of network architecture for America Online, where he oversaw the design, development, and implementation of all data networks and telecommunications facilities for dial, Internet, and data center networks. This included the deployment of the first regional pure all optical networks by an ISP in the United States. He has published articles and papers (under current name or as Victor R. Parente) in Communications Technology, Data Communications, LAN Times, Business Communications Review, and Network VAR. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at both RIT and Syracuse University.