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Kaynam Hedayat is vice president, product management, and chief technology officer at Brix Networks where he is responsible for the company's various product management and product marketing initiatives, defining and driving the strategic technology direction of the firm, and representing Brix on relevant standards bodies. Hedayat joined the company in September 1999 from PictureTel Corporation where, as a consultant engineer, he led the development of various next-generation, IP-based products. Previously, he held engineering positions of increasing responsibility at Xerox Imaging Systems, Stonehand, Inc., and Digital Equipment Corporation. A 17-year industry veteran, Hedayat is an acknowledged expert in the areas of voice and video over IP. He is co-author of a new VoIP management protocol, RTP Control Protocol Extended Reports (RTCP-XR), which defines a set of standard metrics for assessing VoIP call quality and diagnosing problems. Additionally, Hedayat is co-author of the book, "Multimedia Systems, Standards, and Networks," is co-holder of U.S. Patent No. 7,058,020 that covers a technique for hardware time-stamping, has several additional patents pending, and is the lead author of several IETF drafts. Hedayat has a Master's of Engineering degree from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University. | 