User:Davidnugent56

David Nugent is an American fiber optic and network design engineer and entrepreneur who was involved in the development of Streaming TV and Fiber to the Home. He is currently a senior web design architect at Shooting Creek Designs, and is also am innkeeper.

Education Nugent earned two degrees one in Information Technologies and the other in Physics (with a discipline in Fiber Optics) from San Diego State University in 1985. He took classes in FORTRAN and UCSD Pascal working with a university lab's computers.

Career

Nugent broke into computers in 1981 on the TI99 Alpha Computer, he wrote a game that caught the attention of his then Mother-In-Law who was the VP of Software Products International (the writers of Open Access, a integrat4ed software package for business for the PC). Nugent started there in the support department and quickly moved to the programming side of the fence. Dave then moved to Florida and joined CPT of South Florida. There Nugent was introduced to LANS and WANS and was one their TOP Novell Engineers. Nugent then took a position with Corporate Systems Group of Miami, where as the lead engineer/project manger, Nugent oversaw numerous LAN, WAN and AS400 integration projects. in 1994 Steve Hersh was with Xyplex, a leader in wide area networks, access servers for mainframes and other environments as well as switches and routers. Steve asked Nugent to come aboard with Xyplex. Shortly thereafter Steve left for Cisco Systems and Xyplex was eventually sold to MRI/NBASE (a switching and fiber optic) company out of Israel. Nugent was one of their main sales engineer and network designer, specializing in xDSL and Fiber to the Home. In 2000 Nugent along with Cisco, Extreme Networks, Alcatel, Sprint, Integrated Homes and MRI Communications (previously NBASE) built a lab in Ft. Lauderdale to work out the over all designs and components needed for everything to work with the Fiber to the Home/Streaming TV design, and asset tracking. These were some of the FIRST IPTV/Streaming TV designs, utilizing 1 Gig to the hone. Ethernet set top boxes and the Billing Software were provided by a Nova Scotia company.

CUT THE CORD WITH CABLE AND STREAM TV After going head to head with Netflix, Hollywood and TV program managers, the design of IPTV/Streaming TV in 2000 was finally realized 18 years later. Licensing of movies was a major sticking point but Companies such as Amazon, Hulu and ABC/Disney made it all possible with their growth and business models.