Stephen L. Casner

Stephen L. Casner

Stephen L. Casner

Awards

IEEE Internet Award

Biography

The vision and leadership of Stephen L. Casner and Eve M. Schooler in developing multimedia standards and protocols for the Internet have driven the success of IP-based telephony, video streaming, and multimedia conferencing we take for granted today. Casner contributed to the first specification and implementation of packet voice on the Internet (the Network Voice Protocol). He later led the Audio/Video Transport (AVT) Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and co-authored the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). Casner and Schooler's work on early prototype systems was instrumental in demonstrating the feasibility of packet audio and video, multicast teleconferencing and radio, IPTV, and even distributed music performance across the Internet.

Casner is a Fellow (retired) of Packet Design, Santa Clara, CA, USA.