Dr. Andras Kalmar

At XroadMedia - pronounced "Cross-road-media" - we focus on providing the most complete and high quality content discovery, navigation and recommendation solutions to our customers in the broadcast, media and Internet industries. By using our solution, our customers can reduce complexity and resources required to distribute, recommend and target the right content to the right people ... regardless the device and platform

APRICO is a revolutionary and award winning video content recommendation and targeting technology for TV. It delivers precisely personalized content to viewers via TV, PC or mobile, based on their profile, viewing behavior and/or explicit inputs.

APRICO is a revolutionary and award winning video content recommendation and targeting technology for TV. It delivers precisely personalized content to viewers via TV, PC or mobile, based on their profile, viewing behavior and/or explicit inputs.

My team (13 people) is responsible for the technical support of Alcatel-Lucent's transmission solutions (incl. technologies WDM, SDH, Ethernet, microwave, optical networking) in CIS, Central and South-Eastern Europe (35 countries, 200+ MEUR business). The main tasks include the definition of customer strategy, the creation of customer specific solutions, business development, technical sales support.

My team was responsible for the technical support of Alcatel-Lucent's transmission solutions (incl. technologies WDM, SDH, Ethernet, microwave, optical networking) in Central Europe (4 countries, 25+ MEUR business). The main tasks include the definition of customer strategy, the creation of customer specific solutions, business development, technical sales support.

From 2000 to 2003 I was specifying, designing, and developing optical communication systems (e.g. SDH based multiservice nodes, submarine WDM systems, metro WDM systems) at Siemens in Munich/Germany and Vienna/Austria.

From 1999 to 2000 I was working on the design and development of a hard disk video recorder at Philips Consumer Electronics in Vienna / Austria.

In the course of my PhD studies I have been designing, developing, and building an optical phased array antenna for intersatellite communications using laser beams under contract of the European Space Agency. The research resulted in a fully functional laboratory demonstrator of an optical terminal for geostationary satellites.

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