Wolfgang Zeller TITLE : HEAD OF VIDEO CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
Wolfgang Zeller TITLE : HEAD OF VIDEO CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
INDUSTRY : TELECOMMUNICATIONS LOCATION : MUNICH , GERMANY
Wolfgang Zeller is Head of Video at Vodafone Group , where he leads and drives Vodafone ’ s video technology products & roadmaps and manages for Vodafone Group strategic technology programs for Video / TV . Over his + 25 years working in the video / tv / broadcast industry , Wolfgang has been working at the transition of classic cable broadcast to first interactive services and further on to full IP distribution and now at Vodafone Group driving the next generation cloud based OTT pay-tv platform that supports all types of networks ( mobile , cable , ftth , dth , xdsl ..) and devices , which is rolled out at global scale in Vodafone markets . ways , the service set the gold standard for the TV providers of today , but the consumer story is only half the tale ; it was in the backend technology that the true revolution was happening .
“ When we started off , we made a few big bets ,” Zeller recalls . “ The main one was to run everything in the cloud . Six years ago , nobody was doing anything particularly exciting in the cloud , especially in the TV space . The other big bet was we wanted to use OTT technologies , and they both paid off very well .
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