Chris Chambers’s main interests are in IT and telecom networks and how these will have to evolve to deliver intelligent bandwidth to processes, workflows and media centric applications. Over the last 15 years has been working on the strategic development of broadcasting systems, looking into ATM and IP based networking developments as well as file standards for broadcasting use. This is involved him in the convergence of traditional broadcasting technology and the information technology world. Chris is particularly interested in the development of standardised “end to end” process intelligence, linking the performance of the physical structure with the service needs of streams and applications.
His current area of work covers a range of issues including GRID /Cloud computing, storage and network performance projects and has been working with many standards and industry bodies on the study and development of network structures, workflow and middleware standards. His duties also cover the management of a team specialising in these issues.
He has been a participant on a number of industry collaborative groups covering these topics and has been involved with a number of EBU groups over the last 20 years and is currently chair of a project group on the challenges of Future Media Storage Systems (FSS) within the Future Network Strategy group. Chris chairs an Audio Engineering Society standard working group on developing metadata structures and is currently working on various other standardisation projects. More recently, Chris is a member of the UK's TSB Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network Advisory Board as well as the Digital Communications KTN Advisory Board. Chris brings a wealth of broadcasting experience having worked in Engineering and Project Management running project teams covering the design and installation of broadcast facilities in Outside Broadcast, Studios, Broadcast Infrastructure and Data services for the BBC during his 44 years in the BBC.