Routing Switcher and System Design Considerations for Large 3 Gbit/sec Core Facilities

Birney Dayton has been active in the broadcast industry since 1968. He spent four years in television production and equipment maintenance, while completing his BSEE at the University of Nevada, Reno. In 1973, he joined Grass Valley Group, Inc. and for the next 16 years he designed and managed the design of many products. From 1983 to 1989 he was VP of Engineering. In 1989, Dayton with two others, founded NVISION, Inc. In December 2008, Miranda Technologies acquired NVISION. Dayton is currently director of technology for Miranda. Over the past 30 years, Dayton has spent considerable time working on industry committees helping to advance the state of the art. He was involved in the development of SMPTE analog and digital component video standards, and was technical chair of the SMPTE High Definition Electronic Production working group and subsequently chaired the New Technology committee, S22 and 22TV. He is currently chair of the 23B technical committee. He also chaired the Systems Analysis working party of the Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service. Dayton has authored numerous industry papers, has served as a governor of SMPTE, is a Fellow of the SMPTE, and in 2008 was awarded the SMPTE Progress Medal. He currently holds 16 patents.