MUMBAI: Ketan Thakker, a veteran in the cable television industry, has quit Digicable Network as Vice President – Technical after spending more than five years in the company.

At Digicable, Thakker was overall business head for OFC infrastructure at a pan India level. He was also the technical in-charge of digital Headend and SMS of entire Western region.

Thakker, a Diploma holder in Industrial Electronics, boasts of a professional career spanning more than 21 years encompassing CATV industry, digital headend and maintenance/design/re-design of entire network.
Prior to joining Digicable, Thakker was associated with Wire & Wireless India Limited (now Siti Cable) as Deputy General Manager. He served Siti Cable for a year as an overall technical in charge of Digital Headend, SMS and Tech-operations.

He had also worked with Raheja Group-promoted Hathway Cable and Datacom for five years as Senior Manager – Technical. He was overall technical in charge of Hathway - South Mumbai.

Thakker was also associated with Win Cable and Datacom as Manager – Technical for a period of two years. He was responsible to supervise the technical aspects of headends for Win Cable in Mumbai, installation and maintenance of control room and trunk lines along with upgradation of trunk line mapping and also testing and inspection of CATV equipments.