Simen K. Frostad is Chairman and co-founder of Bridge Technologies, which he started in Oslo in 2004 with the goal of creating solutions that would simplify the transition to IP. Bridge has grown into a self-funded company serving customers in more than 100 countries, known for IP transport monitoring and analysis.

Bridge’s tools cover timing, audio, video and transport across ST 2110 and IPMX production networks, and have been used on major live productions, including the Tokyo Olympics and the men’s and women’s World Cups. Its browser-based probes give engineers a shared, real-time view of what is happening on the network, from PTP clock sources to loss and jitter.

Before Bridge, Simen developed the first nonlinear sports editing facility during the 1994 Winter Olympics, built the first multi-camera hard disk recording system for episodic drama production in 1998, and created the world’s first IP/MPLS contribution network for Scandinavian sports coverage.

With 35+ years of industry experience and an understanding of the end-to-end broadcast process and the technologies that enable it, Simen has played a leading role in making the future of the broadcast industry possible. He is a vocal advocate for open standards and industry collaboration.