Interface[s] Montréal

Audio and video IP

Eric Bourbeau

TELUS

IP television

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The mass adoption of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocol in the ‘90s created a profound paradigm shift in global communications. Since then, we have witnessed a rapid evolution of IP applications. Originally transporting text messages, they mutated to transport voice, and now video. They have also broadened their reach. Originally designed for the scientific and business communities, these IP applications now touch every segment of society, offering not only business applications but pure entertainment.

The advent of these new technologies, combined with a global deregulation of the telecom industry, is having a profound impact on the consumer communications market. Traditionally owned by telecommunications companies (telcos), the residential telephony market is now being sought after by the cable industry (cablecos) as they implement voice over IP (VoIP) telephony solutions. Conversely, the home entertainment market, traditionally owned by cablecos, is now being sought after by the telcos offering IP television.

In this context, TELUS, along with other Canadian telcos, is preparing the launch of its IP television offer named TELUS TV. The conference will therefore address IP television, its applications and its future. Eric Bourbeau is heading up the TELUS TV project in Quebec.

Eric Bourbeau graduated with a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University, in Montreal in 1989. Along with a schoolmate, he started ZENON Systems inc., a systems integration firm, that year. As a result of Eric Bourbeau’s leadership, ZENON systems spent four years in a row on the Profit 100 Canadian top 100 fastest growing companies list* as Microsoft number one partner in Quebec. In 1995, he started ZENON Training inc., one of Canada’s leading Microsoft training organizations.In 1997, he was awarded the Young Entrepreneur of the year award for Quebec as part of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He was also President of the Jury for the 1998 edition for the Quebec region. That same year, he also sat on the Canadian Enterpreneur of the Year award Jury along with the CEO’s of such Canadian companies as Canadian Tire, Bata Shoes and Shan swimwear.In 1999, Eric Bourbeau sold both his companies to QuebecTel, later bought by TELUS. For TELUS, he has been involved in sales, marketing and communications, public relations and government relations.

He is now heading up the deployment of TELUS TV, TELUS’ new IP television service in Quebec. Eric Bourbeau has been in the ITC industry for over 15 years and now also sits on the board of directors of the Montreal Science Center, The Fondation des Museums nature de Montréal, theSAT and is Chairman of the board of La Mosaïque, the largest volunteer charity organization on the South Shore of Montreal.