AltiView 3: Features and flexibility in a next-gen UI platform

With more competition than ever for consumers’ attention, pay-TV operators are seeking user interfaces that can easily be tailored as precisely as possible to viewers’ wants and needs.  In this video, our SVP and Chief Architect, Bill Helms, explains how AltiView 3 enables unparalleled flexibility for pay-TV UIs, including UHD support and the option to incorporate such features as program popularity, genres, previous viewing selections and even metadata from consumers’ other media sources to inform search, discovery and navigation. 

Alticast Welcomes Cable Industry Veteran as its New Chief Architect and Senior Vice President of Technology

Bill Helms Joins Alticast to Lead Continued Product and Technology Innovation

Alticast, a global partner for the delivery of media entertainment, announced today that Bill Helms has joined the company as Chief Architect and Senior Vice President of Technology. As a cable industry veteran with more than 30 patents to his name, Helms brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to help Alticast continue innovating new products and applications for delivering increasingly interactive, multiscreen TV Everywhere services. 

Helms joins Alticast from Time Warner Cable (TWC) where he spent more than a decade as the operator’s Vice President of Subscriber Engineering and Technology.  At TWC, Helms was responsible for leading the specification and development efforts of architecture, applications and services for the company’s video product line as well as overseeing the entire development process of the equipment used by TWC subscribers for video, data and telephony.  Among his many notable accomplishments at TWC, Helms led the internal engineering teams responsible for the launch and integration of the TWC navigation application into over 10 million STBs and was also the lead technical representative on the Downloadable Conditional Access System (DCAS) joint efforts with Comcast and Cox Communications. 

Prior to his tenure at TWC, Helms held numerous technical positions with Scientific-Atlanta, DiviCom and Harmonic.  In his new role, he will report into John Carlucci, Alticast’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

“Over his 20 plus year career, Bill has earned a well-deserved reputation in the industry as a leader who can innovate and solve problems across the video service provider and supplier community,” said John Carlucci, CTO for Alticast. “Bill’s technical and business expertise, especially when it comes to understanding complex consumer, technology and operator trends, makes him an excellent addition to the Alticast team where we continue to pioneer industry-leading solutions.”