About Us
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Headquartered in Norwalk, CT, KenCast is trusted by the Hollywood movie studios, military and government agencies, major TV & news networks, retail and financial institutions to provide fast, highly-secure, and ultra-reliable global delivery of their most crucial multimedia content via wireless & wire terrestrial, satellite, and mobile networks.
The Company has been innovating since its foundation in 1993 and continues to stay ahead of the pack in the content-delivery market. With strong 24-hour availability, KenCast supports more than 2,000 network applications worldwide (L, C, X, Ku, Ka bands; ATSC 3.0; LTE-B/5G, WiFi; CDNs and other IP networks), many serving on every continent, enabling end-to-end control for content owners to send files and live video streams to/from fixed sites and Vehicles-On-The-Move (VOTM) with strong eCommerce support.
Our Fazzt platform enables application owners to flawlessly unicast and/or multicast files and live video streams to planes, trains, ships and cars so their customers can enjoy content anytime anywhere.
More than two Decades of Reliability
Satellite, UDP Internet and cellular networks are all error-prone. KenCast has developed a family of patented, proprietary forward error correction (FEC) methods to ensure that a file or stream reaches every recipient perfectly, even with gaps or multiple errors in transmission. This eliminates the high cost of retransmission and is especially important for encrypted files, where the smallest error renders them indecipherable.
Instead of encoding files, KenCast’s Streaming FEC operates on clusters of streaming packets. For example, 10 seconds of an encoded stream may carry 9 seconds of actual content, and the original stream can be perfectly reconstructed even with one second of missing or corrupted data. For a few seconds of delay, the freezing and jerkiness of uncorrected signals are eliminated, with the added benefit of encrypting the content to prevent unauthorized access.
Our Management Team
Dr. William E. Steele
Chairman & CEO
Dr. Steele founded KenCast in 1993 and is regarded as a long-term leader and visionary in the world of satellite communications.
Dr. William E. Steele
Chairman & CEO
Dr. William E. Steele is the Chairman and CEO of KenCast. Prior to founding the company, Dr. Steele spent fourteen years with GTE Corporation; five of those years as General Manager of the ImageSpan division of GTE Spacenet.
Dr. Steele’s vast experience in the satellite and telecommunications industry includes a position as Vice President of Marketing at the Microband subsidiary of McDonnell-Douglas and Sales Manager at the American Satellite Corporation division of Fairchild. Dr. Steele was an Assistant professor of Economics at Villanova University and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University.
Dr. Henrik Axelsson
President
Dr. Axelsson joined KenCast in 2006 as a senior software engineer. Currently he oversees the strategic direction as well as daily operations.
Dr. Henrik Axelsson
President
Dr. Henrik Axelsson is the President of KenCast. Since joining KenCast in 2006, Henrik has held multiple roles within the company, including software development, operations, business development and management. As President, Henrik oversees the company’s technology roadmaps, its daily operations as well as its marketing, business development and sales initiatives. In concert with the Board of Directors, Henrik charts the company’s strategic direction.
Henrik received his Ph.D and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology with a concentration in optimization and control theory. He holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Dr. Weimin Fang
Vice President, Technology
Dr. Fang has been with KenCast for 14 years, is responsible for creating the complex algorithms that underlie its unique technologies.
Dr. Weimin Fang
Vice President, Technology
Dr. Fang joined KenCast, Inc. in June 2000, shortly after receiving his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania. He has directed the development of the KenCast mobile broadband product line for many years and was a leader in our Cinema technology.
He has made major contributions to KenCast’s technology for accelerated delivery, Forward Error Correction, IP network bonding, multicasting, and dispersed cloud storage. He won a Gold Medal at the 27th International Mathematical Olympics, 1986.
He holds a B.S., Mathematics, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China, May 1990, an M.S., Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1998, and a Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, May 2000.
Taniya Pirapokin
Vice President, Software Development
Ms. Pirapokin joined KenCast in 2000 as a software engineering after receiving her M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University.
Taniya Pirapokin
Vice President, Software Development
Ms. Pirapokin joined KenCast in 2000 and heads up much of the software development in Digital Cinema, signage and the core Fazzt product line.
Taniya received her B.S. from Stevens Institute of Technology in Computer Science with a minor in Electrical Engineering, and she received her M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University.
Oriel Newman
Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs
Oriel joined KenCast in 2013 and is responsible for overseeing legal and licensing matters, research, and project management.
Oriel Newman
Vice Presindent, Business & Legal Affairs
Oriel joined KenCast in 2013. After years negotiating and drafting multinational agreements with a Tokyo law firm, Oriel earned an MBA in strategy and finance, and spent several successful years in Silicon Valley in business development.
He has worked at Ford Motors Japan, Sony Corporation and Applied Materials and co-founded two tech-media start-ups. At KenCast, Oriel is primarily responsible for overseeing legal and licensing matters, research and project management.
Oriel has a BA from Brandeis University, a Juris Doctorate from Cardozo School of Law, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Prof. Michael Fischer
Co-Founder
Prof. Fischer teaches computer science at Yale University, is co-founder, and part owner of KenCast. He is currently an advisor to the company.
Prof. Michael Fischer
Co-founder
Michael J. Fischer, Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, is a co-founder and part owner of KenCast, and is currently an advisor to the company.
A Professor of Computer Science at Yale University since 1981, Professor Fischer specializes in cryptographic protocols and distributed systems. He held the post of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM for four years and has published more than 90 papers on theoretical computer science.
Professor Fischer in the past has taught at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Washington. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics, University of Michigan, an M.S. in Applied Mathematics, University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard.
Learn more about Professor Fischer at Wikipedia.