Jeff Finkelstein
Senior Director, Network Architecture
Cox Communications

Jeff Finkelstein is the Senior Director of Network Architecture at Cox Communications in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been part of the engineering and architecture group at Cox since 2002, and was part of the team responsible for the deployment of DOCSIS technologies, from DOCSIS 1.1 to DOCSIS 3.0. Jeff has made significant contributions to the access network design and deployments at Cox, and has the new role of being responsible for future technology planning of backbone, metro, access, and home networks.

Included in his achievements is being part of the CableLabs team contributing to the DOCSIS 3.0 PHY spec, the CableLabs Pro-active Network Management work, and the Comcast CMAP hardware, software and management specifications. Jeff has been published worldwide on topics including CMAP, IPDR, upstream PHY technologies, IP video deployment over DOCSIS, telepresence, and drivers for future bandwidth consumption.

Jeff holds degrees in Education and began his career working on UNIX kernel development focusing on scheduling and virtual memory. In 1996 he began working in the cable industry deploying pre-DOCSIS data services and began working with DOCSIS in 1999.

Jeff has over 16 patents issued and/or pending. In his spare time he is involved in Irish Traditional Music and volunteering with local charities.