LTN renews its technical leadership to leave satellite behind and focus on IP video transport

Michael Miskin-Amir, Jonathan Stanton and Bobby Bond to fill new roles in LTN to transform the technical approach of a company moving from transporting live video from satellite sources to its global IP network.

Malik Khan, executive president and co-founder of LTN, justifies the company's transformation into the own evolution of the industry. “Our full-time channel distribution revenue has grown 28% annually over the past few years, and even faster growth is anticipated as C-band satellite spectrum auctions approach,” he explains, noting the growing importance of your IP managed services: “These appointments will drive LTN’s technical roadmap as we expand our reach to 100% of all content delivery platforms, deliver more advanced monitoring tools and highly automated, AI-based service capabilities that meet the needs of our customers.”

To establish the pillars of this evolution, LTN has appointed Michal Poor-Amir, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. With 18 years of experience driving innovation in video transport at LTN, including positions as executive vice president of development, she will be responsible for creating and executing a unified technical vision that combines infrastructure and development, allowing the company to delve into areas such as software or automated service delivery.

Jonathan Stanton has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Infrastructure Officer. He will focus on improving the reliability and scalability of LTN's global IP network and services platform, with a contractual service level agreement (SLA) of “99.9999% availability”, to support rapid business growth, while collaborating with the product and sales teams to design world-class solutions for customers. Finally, Bobby Bond, Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer, will oversee all software engineering and development across the organization.

“These highly skilled professionals have contributed significantly to LTN's success and technological leadership to date. “Together, they will develop and implement new features that will strengthen our network as the market-leading IP video transport solution, while providing greater scale and flexibility to broadcasters, sports networks and rights holders offering high-value live video,” he underlines. Khan.