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Winston D. Johnson Sr, started in the film, tv, music, computer science, and telecommunications industries in the 1970s, pioneered technological innovations in telecommunication, music, computer and sound engineering. Winston D. Johnson Sr. over the last 35 years has enable entertainment, telecommunication, broadcasters, and distribution companies to distribute high-end film, television, motion pictures, and data throughout the world.
In 1988-1990 Winston D. Johnson Sr. was a part of Video Flex a Bellcore R&D project with Regional Bell Companies Pacific Bell, Bell Atlantic, Bell South, Ameritech, NYNEX, Southwestern Bell, and AT&. This project connected television networks in nine major U.S. cities, as a fiber optic alternative to interconnecting cities by satellite. As a result of this project Winston became a part of several Pacific Bell trials, experiments, and projects. One of the historical Pacific Bell projects was a special network was built to connect Industrial Lights and Magic in San Rafael, CA. to Steven Spielberg’s production Company Amblin Entertainment, on the Universal lot in Los Angeles. Spielberg used this solution to send computer generated dinosaurs for “Jurassic Park” back and forth between the two locations.
In 1994 and 1995 Winston D. Johnson Sr. coordinated and integrated the very first video telephone and video e-mail “store and forward” application. This application was based on a Pacific Bell ATM Network, in partnership with Pacific Telesis Corporation and the Whittaker Corporation. This project resulted in the first successful video telephone application in the United States and the world on July 28, 1995.
Winston has demonstrated a proven track record as a pioneer and innovator in design and implementation of high speed telecommunications, broadcast networks and technology network solutions.
Winston D. Johnson Sr. has been involved in over two billion dollars in state, municipalities, and US infrastructure planning to date, also a number of technological innovations for Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), Over-the-Top (OTT) Video Engineering, and facilities-based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) services. Strategic alliances with Digital Realty, NASA, Cogent, Lumen, AT&T, DC Blox, American Tower, and a host of Motion Picture Studio’s, and production companies. These and other strategic alliances have enabled Johnson to design, build and test high-speed Video, Data, Audio, and Voice operations in many U.S. markets and to build a backbone network that include fiber routes, collocation and interconnection facilities with Regional Bell Operating Companies, Cable Carriers, Broad Casters and other entities with in the United States bringing advanced technologies to empower mankind.