John Grant
Network engineer, Nine Tiles
Major contribution
John Grant initiated research into Flexilink, a low-latency networking architecture intended to carry time-critical professional media alongside best-effort data.
The relevant John Grant is the Nine Tiles networking engineer, not the singer-songwriter. Birmingham City University credits him with initiating its low-latency packet-based media networking research in collaboration with Nine Tiles.
The research describes Flexilink as a unified architecture supporting deterministic media traffic and best-effort data. Nine Tiles developed Aubergine technology to deploy that transport; the university describes continued evaluation and initial-deployment work, not universal adoption in touring sound.
Key work
- “Life after IP,” AES conference paper (2008)
- Flexilink low-latency architecture (date not specified)
- Aubergine transport technology, Nine Tiles (date not specified)