The Cable Show 2010 - Go Beyond

John Chapman

Cisco Fellow & CMTS Chief Architect
Cisco Systems

John Chapman

John T. Chapman is a Cisco Fellow and the Chief Architect for the Access and Transport Technology Group at Cisco in San Jose, California. John helped found the CMTS Group at Cisco in 1996 and architected the uBR7246 CMTS, the industry’s first CMTS. John has made significant contributions to Cisco and the cable industry through his pioneering work in DOCSIS and development of key technologies and concepts critical to the deployment of IP services over HFC plants.

Included in these achievements are being the originator and primary author of significant portions of the DOCSIS Specification. John is the original creator of the DOCSIS Settop Gateway (DSG) specification and the Downstream External PHY interface (DEPI) specification for Modular CMTS. In 2001, John originated the principles for bonding multiple DOCSIS channels together to create a Wideband channel that was the basis for DOCSIS 3.0. John has also published a number of ground-breaking whitepapers on Multimedia Traffic Engineering (MMTE), DSG, QoS, and high availability.

John graduated from the University of Alberta in Canada with a Bachelor in Science of Electrical Engineering in 1984. John began his formal career designing voice line, trunk, and ISDN cards for ROLM/IBM/Siemens. In 1989, John joined Cisco where he invented and shipped HSSI. Later projects included the Cisco 3000 Router, the Cisco multi-protocol serial interfaces and ASICs, and the Cisco 7000 VIP and SPA architecture.

John is one of only two people who have received two Cisco Pioneering Technology Awards and has over 60 patents issued and/or pending. In his spare time, John enjoys spending time with his wife and two little girls. John is a 6th Degree Black Belt Master in Taekwondo and enjoys white water canoeing and skiing.


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