Graham Turner has worked in the pay and digital television field since the late 1980s. His initial involvement was at BSB where he headed the company’s conditional access activities. In 1991 he and a colleague founded Farncombe Technology, a consultancy and software house specialising in pay and digital television and telephony security.
In 1993 Graham and two of his colleagues were commissioned by the European Commission to write the chapter on Conditional Access and Subscriber Management in the Green Paper used to initiate the DVB Project. At Farncombe Graham also undertook the security audit of a number of conditional access systems as well as leading the development team that created a subscriber authorisation system which managed a million satellite pay TV subscribers for several years. He was also involved in the comparative assessment of conditional access systems for a number of satellite, cable and terrestrial broadcasters, and then for the negotiation of suitable supply contracts.
Graham was a leading member of the project team that launched the world’s first fully DVB compliant pay TV satellite service in 1995, after which he was involved in auditing the BBC’s public service digital television architecture, and helping in the launch of ITV Digital. He has also been extensively involved in the launch of pan-European digital cable services, and in fighting pay piracy.
In 2007 Graham joined Nagra, the world’s largest independent conditional access company, as a Vice President where he was responsible for a range of fire-fighting and other activities. From 2011 to the end of 2014 Graham was once again involved in digital and pay TV consultancy, with his own company Wayland Consulting. He is currently Chairman of the IET’s Multimedia Communications Technical and Professional Network. Graham is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IET.
Join Graham at the upcoming Introduction to Content Protection course at IET London: Savoy Place on the 29th March 2017.
In 1993 Graham and two of his colleagues were commissioned by the European Commission to write the chapter on Conditional Access and Subscriber Management in the Green Paper used to initiate the DVB Project. At Farncombe Graham also undertook the security audit of a number of conditional access systems as well as leading the development team that created a subscriber authorisation system which managed a million satellite pay TV subscribers for several years. He was also involved in the comparative assessment of conditional access systems for a number of satellite, cable and terrestrial broadcasters, and then for the negotiation of suitable supply contracts.
Graham was a leading member of the project team that launched the world’s first fully DVB compliant pay TV satellite service in 1995, after which he was involved in auditing the BBC’s public service digital television architecture, and helping in the launch of ITV Digital. He has also been extensively involved in the launch of pan-European digital cable services, and in fighting pay piracy.
In 2007 Graham joined Nagra, the world’s largest independent conditional access company, as a Vice President where he was responsible for a range of fire-fighting and other activities. From 2011 to the end of 2014 Graham was once again involved in digital and pay TV consultancy, with his own company Wayland Consulting. He is currently Chairman of the IET’s Multimedia Communications Technical and Professional Network. Graham is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IET.
Join Graham at the upcoming Introduction to Content Protection course at IET London: Savoy Place on the 29th March 2017.