Broadpeak Promotes Guillaume Bichot To Director Of Exploration

Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, has appointed Guillaume Bichot as its director of exploration to strengthen the company’s technology innovation. Bichot and his team will continue to identify, assess, promote, and invent video streaming technology evolutions, including performance and QoE improvements, multicast ABR (mABR) workflows, CDN virtualization, and open caching.

“Guillaume joined Broadpeak in 2018 as a member of our research and development team, and since then he has played an important role in helping us address and develop exploratory projects, intellectual property, and standardization,” said Jacques Le Mancq, Broadpeak CEO. “With Guillaume’s extensive, hands-on experience in research and industry projects, we’re excited to see where he leads the next phase of video streaming technology exploration and innovation for Broadpeak.”

In his new position, Bichot is leading Broadpeak’s exploration team in continuing to support standards development, including DVB-I specifications such as native IP and mABR, which he has already been actively involved in. In addition, he continues to drive Broadpeak’s intellectual property management, following the historical path of the company with its nanoCDN patent portfolio.

Prior to joining Broadpeak, Bichot was the head of network evolution and a principal scientist at Technicolor and Thomson, where he managed technical activities related to video and networking. With more than 25 years of experience in the video industry, Bichot has led multisite and international innovation programs, teams and projects in home networking, streaming, broadcasting, mobile and wireless technology. He is an author, lecturer and contributor to standards bodies. Bichot has a master’s degree in network science from UPMC in Paris.