Mr Robert Burrows Edit

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1. 1. Elysium

   www.elysiumbroadband.com/corpo - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/5/2003   Last Visited: 5/5/2003

   Robert (Bob) Burrows , President and CEO
   
   Mr. Burrows is responsible for managing and executing Elysium's potential as a worldwide leader in broadband technology. As Elysium's President and CEO, he has a comprehensive understanding of how technology can transform business models, drawing on extensive experience in telecommunications and applications services globally.
   
   Prior to joining Elysium, he held senior positions at international telecommunications and equipment companies including Fonorola, Unitel (now AT & T Canada), Tandem (now Compaq), Motorola and Maxlink Communications Inc., where he played key roles in implementing marketing and growth strategies. He also played a central role in establishing Array Telecom, one of the world's pioneers in Voice Over IP systems.
   
   Mr. Burrows holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Science in business from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

2. 2. money.net - The Financial Community

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   Published on: 1/24/2001   Last Visited: 6/16/2001

   Bob Burrows , Elysium's chief executive , said the capital cost of his company's system is half the cost of existing systems on the market. Moreover , the operating costs are significantly lower because upgrades and installations can be done without having to dispatch a technician to the customer's house. We put a lot of work into eliminating technicians , Mr. Burrows said.
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   Mr. Burrows said the company expects to double its R&D staff this year. iMagicTV Inc. of Saint John and others make components of systems which can do the same thing that Elysium does. In September , Cisco Systems Inc. of San Jose , Calif. , paid US$369-million for Pixstream Inc. of Waterloo , Ont. , which Cisco has since shuttered , for technology it had invented that compresses video signals for use on Internet networks. Elysium's technology does by itself what Pixstream and iMagic do together : Take a video signal , compress it and re-format it , and then send that signal out on an Internet Protocol ( IP ) network using Very High Data Rate Subsriber Line ( VDSL ) technology. In short , it uses the same technology that moves e-mail around the Internet to move television signals around. But instead of a set-top box or a cable modem , all the customer needs is a special wall unit that the customer can plug into any telephone jack. Elysium estimates these will cost about US$150 to manufacture.
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   This is a huge space , Mr. Burrows said. A version of Elysium's system that could be used to provide similar service to detached homes should be ready for market by 2003 , Mr. Burrows said. The service provider would be responsible for bringing the television signals or high-speed Internet service to an apartment building , where they would be plugged into what Elysium is calling a broadband service unit. The broadband service unit is a specialized computer about the size of two beer cases that would be installed in the basement of the apartment building. This unit takes the video signals and Internet traffic and routes it into the appropriate household , via the telephone system , keeping track of which customers used which services , which channels they watched and even who turned down the sound during which parts of which program. Moreover , while existing high-speed Internet services allow for high-speed transfers of data downstream from the Internet to the consumer , none offer the same high-speed data transfer rates upstream , from the consumer to the Internet. Elysium's system offers high-speed Internet access in both directions at speeds of up to 10 megabits a second. The @Home services from Rogers and Shaw offer downstream peak speeds of about three megabits a second and upstream speeds of less than a megabit a second.

3. 3. Toronto Venture Group

   www.tvg.org/tvg_breakfast_foru - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/25/2002   Last Visited: 11/28/2003

   Bob Burrows President & CEO Elysium Broadband 25 Kinnear Court, Unit 3 Richmond Hill, ON L4B 1H9 T: 905-763-3737 F: 905-763-3641