Tor Karstensen Joins Bridge Technologies

The developers of the first complete satellite-to-set-top box monitoring solution for IPTV operators, Bridge Technologies, have announced that Tor Karstensen has joined the company as marketing and design executive.
Karstensen will assume overall responsibility for the visual identity and branding of Bridge Technologies.
Karstensen has a deep and wide-ranging base of experience in visual branding and online presence development for clients including Sun Microsystems, Deloitte and Glaxo SmithKline and has founded two cross-media communications companies. He has also worked as a content developer in the Second Life virtual world platform.
Simen K. Frostad, Chairman of Bridge Technologies, said: "Tor's experience and flair is an important asset for the company.
"We've always given a high priority to both branding and the visual communication of our concepts and technologies, and we regard it as an important tool in our market strategies.
"Tor has already contributed much to our identity as a consultant and now we're pleased to have him in a bigger role."
Karstensen added: "It's very stimulating to work with a company as forward-thinking as Bridge Technologies. They are extremely smart people and have a significant lead in the market. I'm really excited about helping to communicate the company's message to a rapidly growing audience."
Bridge Technologies' award-winning VideoBRIDGE series of probes is a set of innovative industrial platforms for converging services employing stream-based IP packets. Compatible with all major stream-based industrial standards such as MPEG-2, H.264/AVC and DVB/ATSC - ETSI TR 101 290, the VideoBRIDGE series offer a complete end-to-end system for the continuous quality assurance of a network. With full support of the RFC4455 standards proposal and the innovaitve MEDIAWINDOW, the VideoBRIDGE series is at the forefront of IPTV measurement and monitoring technologies.
Further information is available at: www.bridgetech.tv.
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