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Robin Mersh
Broadband Forum Chief Executive Officer
Languages Spoken: English
Robin Mersh joined the Broadband Forum as Chief Operating Officer in July 2006, and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer in July 2010. Robin has authored many articles and has spoken at and chaired many broadband industry conferences and exhibitions. He has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 18 years, starting at Cable & Wireless and then moving on to BT before meeting his wife and moving to the US in 1999. Robin has worked in business development and alliance management for various OSS software companies in the United States, mainly in network and service provisioning and activation, where he negotiated and managed several large OEM agreements. He is originally from Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London in 1992.
Laurie Adams de Sá
Broadband Forum Marketing Director
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
Laurie Adams de Sá joined Broadband Forum in May 2000 as Marketing Director. In this role, she is responsible for managing all global marketing initiatives of the Forum. This work includes event engagements, BroadbandSuite™ releases and certification launches, collateral design, as well as acting as media spokesperson-overseeing all press and analyst engagements- including Forum byline development and ad production.
From 1998 to May 2000, Mrs. Adams de Sá was the lead DSL and Integrated Fiber Wholesale Product Manager for BellSouth Communications. From 1992 to 1998, she was a Senior Account Manager, handling Sprint, MCI, AT&T and Qwest's data network sales and design work for BellSouth Interconnection Services. She graduated from Agnes Scott College with an International Relations BA degree.
Dov Zimring
Broadband Forum Ambassador & Summit Committee Chairperson
Systems Product Manager, Google
Languages Spoken: English
Dov Zimring is a Product Manager on Google's Fiber for Communities program with responsibility for network architecture, open-access business models and consumer offerings. Dov has ten years experience in bringing new technology to market and helping Service Providers architect their networks for higher performance and new service delivery at lower equipment and operational costs. He has extensive experience in IPTV, broadband network architecture, access technologies and corresponding standards and has worked across industry to solidify and standardize best practices including co-editing Broadband Forum TR-176, WT-160 and MR-204.
Dov has a Bachelor's and Masters Degree in Computer Science from UCSB and an MBA from UCLA.
Dave Christophe
Broadband Forum Ambassador Committee Vice Chairperson
Director, Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
Languages Spoken: English
Dave is currently focusing on WAN solutions for energy, government and transportation agencies. He has over twenty years experience in communications. Prior to his current position, he held a variety of positions in product management and systems engineering focusing on communications for service providers and enterprise. These provided an opportunity to apply new technologies while understanding the associated business case. This experience has been shared through industry and technology focused conference presentations. He previously served as the IP/MPLS Forum Education Working Group Chair. Dave received his Bachelor of Arts in Administrative Science from Colby College and Master of Business Administration in Marketing from Babson College.
Yue Chen
Broadband Forum Marketing Committee Chairperson
Sr. Manager, Systems Engineering, Juniper Networks
Languages Spoken: English, Chinese
Yue is the Director of Technical Marketing in Juniper's Fabric & Switching Technology Business Group. Yue has 20+ years of experience in the networking industry, 13 of which was at Juniper Networks, its acquisition Unisphere Networks and its acquisition Redstone Communications. Prior to Juniper, he developed networking products for Bell Northern Research, Motorola Codex, Wellfleet/Bay Networks, and Arris Networks/Cascade Communications.
Yue has been actively contributing to technical and marketing work at the Broadband Forum since 2004, and served as Marketing Committee Chair since 2007.
Yue holds Bachelor of Science in E.E. from Zhejiang University, China, and Master of Science in E.E. from Polytechnic University, New York.
Nikhil Shah
Broadband Forum International Development Chairperson
Juniper Networks
Languages Spoken: English, Hindi, Gujarati
Mr. Shah is a Head of Wireless Segment Development, for Asia/Pacific region at Juniper Networks. He is responsible for developing wireless strategy, solutions, standards and partnership initiatives. He moved into this role in January 2009 and later relocated to India. Previously at Juniper-California, he was responsible for product management, technical solutions development with global channels such as Nokia-Siemens Networks. He also serves on the board of Broadband Forum, where he is a VP of International Development.
Mr. Shah has over fifteen years of global telecom industry experience including living in US for 12 years (Massachusetts & California), and has worked with operators across the globe. He is frequently invited to present at various industry conferences. His prior experience includes eight years at Lucent, where most recently he developed and managed integrated solutions with Juniper, Riverstone, and OSS vendors. Earlier, he worked with Zeitnet (Cabletron), Tata Group, and ISRO, India in the areas of system engineering and software development.
Mr. Shah received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science from India. He holds a diploma in Business-Management from Mumbai, has completed the Greater Boston Executive Program at MIT Sloan School in Cambridge, MA, and Advanced Project Management from Stanford University, California.
Vanessa Nacamura
Broadband Forum International Vice Development Chairperson
Broadband Forum Member
Solution Manager, Nokia Siemens Networks
Languages Spoken: English, German, Portuguese
Vanessa Nacamura works as solution manager for IP Transformation solutions at Nokia Siemens Networks. Her previous experience includes product management in the area of transport networks, consulting & system integration for IPTV and optimization in the context of multi layer networks. Vanessa holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidade de Sao Paulo, with specialization in Data Communication from Universidade de Pernambuco and vast experience in the area of Ethernet/IP networking, IPTV and photonics.
Sultan Dawood
Member, Broadband Forum Board of Directors
Broadband Forum Marketing Committee Vice Chair
Cisco Systems
Languages Spoken: English, French, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi
Sultan Dawood is a Sr. Marketing Manager at Cisco Systems focused on IP/MPLS and Packet Transport technologies and solutions. Sultan has accumulated over 15 years experience in the telecom and data networking industry and has held various senior level positions in product management, product marketing, engineering and business development. Prior to Cisco Systems, Sultan held various senior positions at Hammerhead Systems, Motorola, 3COM, ADC Telecommunications and Litton Systems. Sultan has worked very closely with service providers and enterprise customers helping them build their network infrastructures while introducing new technologies to them. Sultan has worked with various Layer 2/3 technologies like ATM, Frame Relay, Ethernet and IP/MPLS.
Sultan earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Tom Starr
Broadband Forum Chairman
Member, Broadband Forum Board of Directors
AT&T, Lead Member of Technical Staff
Languages Spoken: English
Tom Starr serves as Broadband Forum's Chairman, and has served as a member of the Broadband Forum Board of Directors from the inception of the Broadband Forum in 1994 to the present. Tom Starr is a Lead Member of Technical Staff in AT&T Laboratories in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Tom is responsible for the development and standardization of new local access technologies for AT&T's network. These technologies include ADSL, HDSL, and VDSL. From 1988 to 2000, Tom has served as Chairperson of ANSI accredited standards working group T1E1.4 which develops xDSL standards for the United States, received the Committee T1 Outstanding Leadership Award in 2001, and now serves at ATIS-NAI Chair. Tom participates in the ITU SG15 Q4 group on xDSL international standards and serves as Chair of ITU-T Working Part 1 of Study Group 15. Tom is a co-author of the books "DSL Advances" published by Prentice Hall in 2003, and "Understanding Digital Subscriber Line Technology" published by Prentice Hall in 1999. Tom previously worked 12 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories on ISDN and local telephone switching systems. Twelve US patents in the field to telecommunications have been issued to Tom. Tom holds a MS degree in Computer Science and a BS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL.
Kevin Foster
Broadband Forum President
Member, Broadband Forum Board of Directors
BT, Head of Standards
Languages Spoken: English
Kevin is currently responsible BT’s multi-million pound technical standards development programme which directly influences the work of over 80 technical specialists and standards development experts in across BT.
Kevin has over 24 years experience in the design and development of wireline digital transmission in BT’s metallic access network and international telecommunication standards. He is recognised internationally for his contributions to wireline DSL standardisation and has published many technical papers and contributed to several books on aspects of DSL engineering. During his career he has been active in Broadband standardisation in ETSI (TM6), ETSI/CENELEC JWG , FSAN, ITU-T (SG15/Q4), ATIS NIPP NAI and the UK NICC.
After 6 years in the UK defence industry, Kevin joined BT in 1984 and initially worked on the design of BT’s ISDN U interface transceiver with Mitel. Subsequently he was involved in the design, development and international standardisation of wireline DSL transceivers (HDSL, ADSL and VDSL).
Kevin was responsible for the introduction of HDSL and ADSL technology into BT's access network in and has played a leading role in the evolution, standardisation and regulation of broadband access technologies for BT's 21st Century Next Generation Network. He was instrumental in aligning the North American and European requirements for the standardisation of the next generation of Very high-speed DSL technology.
Latterly he has been responsible for the innovation behind the launch of BT’s DSL Max product, which has brought much higher broadband speeds and improved quality of service to wholesale and retail customers in the UK. He was part of the team that was awarded the BT Best Innovative Commercial Idea in 2005. He has an active role in helping BT to reduce its carbon footprint and firmly believes ICT standards have a significant role to play in combating the effects of climate change.
Kevin is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (formally the IEE). He holds an MSc in Telecommunications Engineering (with distinction) from the University of London, a BSc (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2:1), and a Diploma in Industrial Studies from Loughborough University. He is also a member the IEEE and a member of the Broadband Forum Board of Directors.
Marcin Drzymala
Broadband Forum Vice President
Member, Broadband Forum Board of Directors
Telekomunikacja Polska
Languages Spoken: English, Polish
Marcin Drzymala holds a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications from the Warsaw University of Technology. He has worked for Telekomunikacja Polska since the beginning of his professional career in 2003. Working in the TP R&D Centre, Access Systems Division, he has been focused on DSL access systems from the beginning. Starting from the position of lab engineer, through the role of test software developer, he has become the manager in charge of DSL systems evaluation and deployment.
In these years Marcin assisted TP business units in deployment of first ADSL2+ services, as well as assured technical expertise in DSL layer for first IPTV roll-outs. He currently oversees equipment evaluation and qualification on the corporate level, participating in several transversal and international projects.
Since 2004 his work has been closely related to the Broadband Forum activities, especially the Testing & Interoperability Working Group, to which he currently contributes.
Marcin is the winner of the 2007 year edition of the TP Innovation Contest "Telekreator".
Andy Malis
Broadband Forum Vice President
Member, Broadband Forum Board of Directors
Verizon Communications
Languages Spoken: English
Andrew G. Malis holds the position of Director, Packet Network Architecture at Verizon Communications. He has been active in wide-area data networking and telecommunications for over 30 years, beginning with the ARPANET, the foundation of today's Internet. He has also held senior engineering positions at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman; Ascom Nexion; Cascade Communications; Ascend Communications; Lucent Technologies; Vivace Networks; and Tellabs. His current responsibilities include Verizon's packet network architecture and evolution, standards participation, and vendor consultation.
He served as President and Chairman of the Board of the IP/MPLS Forum, and as the MPLS Forum's founding Technical Committee Chair, has chaired a number of working groups in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the ATM Forum, and is a veteran participant and award recipient in other standards bodies and industry consortia. He has written, edited, and otherwise contributed to many standards documents in these organizations, including 27 IETF RFCs. He has also chaired and spoken at numerous industry conferences and events. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Brown University, and his Master of Science degree, also in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, at Harvard University.
David Sinicrope
Broadband Forum Secretary
Member, Broadband Forum Board of Directors
Ericsson
Languages Spoken: English
David Sinicrope is currently a Senior Manager leading wireline standards activity at Ericsson's IP and Broadband Division. His current focus is standardization and strategic product management in the areas of IP, MPLS, PWE3 and Carrier Ethernet and their use in current and evolving networks. His career includes over 20 years of data and telecommunications experience in standardization, product management, architecture and system design.
David currently serves as a member of the Broadband Forum Board and as a Vice-Chair of the IP/MPLS & Core WG. David served as the Vice Chairman of the IP/MPLS Forum Board, and was also Chair of the Applications and Deployment Working Group, a post held since 2002. Prior to PA IP and Broadband (formerly Redback Networks), Mr. Sinicrope was with Ericsson IP Infrastructure Inc. (formerly Torrent Networks) as a systems architect leading MPLS development. Before joining Ericsson, he was with Virata Inc. as a Product Manager and was also a Principal Engineer at Lucent Technologies/Ascend/Cascade Communications where his focus was on ATM and Frame Relay core switching architecture and development. From 1988, he was with IBM Networking Systems where he was responsible for ATM, Frame Relay and ISDN architecture and development for IBM's SNA and routing products.
Frank Van der Putten
Broadband Forum Treasurer
Member, Broadband Forum Board of Directors
Standards Manager, Alcatel-Lucent
Languages Spoken: English, Dutch
Frank Van der Putten was born in Aalst, Belgium in 1963. He obtained an Electronic Engineering Degree in Communication Techniques from the Ghent University in 1986 and a Business Management Degree from the Leuven University in 1991. In 1986, he joined the Ghent University Communications and Information Transmission Laboratories to work on image processing.
In 1988, he joined the Alcatel Research Center to continue image processing and evolved into home networking and DSL access technologies. From 1994, he was involved in the DAVIC standardization activities, where he chaired the physical layer working group until end 1996. Since then, he has been involved in DSL standardization within the ANSI (T1.413-1998 editor), ETSI, ITU-T and the Broadband Forum. He is currently serving as Alcatel Standards Manager for wired access networks, as ITU-T ADSL recommendations editor and as member of the Broadband Forum Board of Directors.
Peter Adams
Member, Broadband Forum Board of Directors
Adtran
Languages Spoken: English
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Christophe Alter
Broadband Forum Technical Committee Chairperson
Member, Broadband Forum Board of Directors
France Telecom, Fixed Broadband Networks Standardization Manager
Languages Spoken: English, French
Within the Strategic Marketing department of France Telecom, Christophe Alter comes from France Telecom Orange, where he is a member of a CTO team dedicated to standards and ecosystems development. He is responsible for France Telecom Orange Group' strategy regarding broadband networks standards.
Christophe is a member of the Broadband Forum Board of Directors since 2008 and now serves as the chairperson of the Technical Committee. He also serves as a co-editor of the Working Text 178 "Multi-service Broadband Network Architecture and Nodal Requirements". Since he first joined the Broadband Forum in 2004, Christophe has contributed mainly in End to End Architecture and Fiber Access Network Working Groups.
Christophe Alter worked at Orange Labs from 2000 until 2007, where he was responsible for network architecture designs in a number of projects, including WIFI hotspots and first pilot deployments offering triple play to residential customers over ADSL access and packet aggregation. He also served as member of the board and chair of the Architecture Task Force of the European collaborative research project "MUSE" - MUlti Service Everywhere.
Christophe Alter is an engineer of Ecole Centrale de Lyon, graduated in 2000.
George Dobrowski
Member, Broadband Forum Board of Directors
Huawei Technologies, Inc., Senior Analyst
Languages Spoken: English
George is involved in Broadband Networking corporate standards activities, product planning, and providing industry leadership in the Broadband Forum. In addition to standards, activities include keeping a pulse on technology trends and service provider/operator needs associated with fixed wireline and wireless networking, home networking CPE needs, and evolution towards broadband convergence. Leveraging Huawei's worldwide position in broadband wireline access (DSL, fiber), wireless, and core network technology deployments enables complementary business unit requirements and understanding of convergence constraints for Telco's.
Previous to Huawei, George has worked for chipset vendors (Ikanos/Conexant), was CTO of startup (Ficon Technology) which was acquired, conducted work for Telco's via Bellcore, and as a systems vendor at Bell Labs involved in research and development of advanced communications systems technologies and their deployment in large scale Telco networks. These experiences provide a broad perspective of the technical and economic challenges faced by different communication industry segments.
In parallel with corporate responsibilities, George has been an industry technology advocate holding leadership positions in standards development organizations. This has included previous Chairman of the Board and President of the Broadband Forum, President of The ATM Forum and a Board of Director, and was Chairman of the ATM Forum Worldwide Technical Committee during the 1993-1998 timeframe. George has also had leadership positions in the development of national and international broadband networking standards involving North American T1S1.5 and ITU-T respectively.
Co-author of two books: "ATM and SONET Basics," and "Principles of Signaling for Cell Relay and Frame Relay". George is a member of the IEEE and has authored numerous articles and conference papers. George holds an M.S.E.E degree from Northwestern University and a B.S.E.E. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology, and Assoc. Engineering Technology from New Hampshire Technical Institute.
Les Brown
Member, Broadband Forum Board of Directors
Lantiq
Languages Spoken: English
As a Lantiq standardization expert, Les has more than 30 years of experience in wireline data communications technologies. His extensive experience features work with voice-band modems, DSL modems, and wireline based home networking, including DSP algorithm design, performance evaluation/optimization, mentoring/managing more junior DSP modem designers, and particularly the standardization of data communication technologies. Les was first involved in voice-band modem standardization, participating in the work on ITU-T Recommendations V.32, V.32bis and V.34, in the 1980s.
During the 1990s, Les was the Rapporteur for the 56k modem project, which resulted in Recommendation V.90. Since 1997, he has been involved in ITU-T Q4/15, where he has chaired the work on projects like VDSL2 (Recommendation G.993.2) and G.inp (impulse noise protection - Recommendation G.998.4), and currently chairs G.hn (home networking - Recommendations G.9960/G.9961) and G.fast (next generation access over short loops). Les is also the Chair of the ITU-T Focus Group on Smart Grid. He has also participated in ATIS COAST NAI, ETSI ATTM TM6, and NIST SGIP. For two years, Les was the editor of the Japanese DSL committee. Since 2002, Les has been the Chair of the former Test and Interop working group (now Metallic Transmission working group), where he has guided work on projects such as TR-67, TR-100/105 (ADSL2/2plus testing), TR-114/115 (VDSL2 testing), and TR-127 (Dynamic testing of splitters and in-line filters with xDSL transceivers).
Prior to Lantiq, Les worked in standardization for companies including Infineon Technologies, Texas Instruments, Centillium, and Conexant Systems (Mindspeed), and he spent 20 years in a number of technical and standards positions at Motorola ISG.
Greg Bathrick
Member, Broadband Forum Board of Directors
BroadbandHome Co-Chair
PMC-Sierra, Ltd.
Languages Spoken: English
Greg Bathrick has been involved with the Broadband Forum since March 1997 and has served on the Board of Directors for 9 years. In this time, he has also served as Co-chair of the Forum's BroadbandHome and Operations and Network Management Technical working group since 1998.
For PMC Sierra, Bathrick is involved in strategic marketing activities. He has extensive product experience in the networking and broadband market segments with a solid record of delivering network technology to broadband system vendors and network carriers. He has worked with several access and home network technologies including DSL, PON, WiFi, Ethernet and fixed mobile. He has also held product management and engineering roles with Texas Instruments, Nokia, Alcatel, Lucent and GTE; as well as earned a patent for improved techniques for video deployment.
In parallel with corporate responsibilities, he has had leadership positions in the development of broadband networking standards with IETF and OpenView Forum. He holds an Bachelors Degree of Engineering from UNM and Masters of Business Administration from Cornell University.
Mauro Tilocca
Member, Broadband Forum Board of Directors
Service Provider Action Council Co-Chairman
Telecom Italia
Languages Spoken: English, Italian, Spanish
Mauro Tilocca graduated in electronic engineering at the Politecnico of Turin in 1994. He joined CSELT, former Telecom Italia’s R&D center, the same year dealing with transport network aspects. He has been also an ETSI technical editor.
Since 1998 Mauro began working in the access network department with a main focus on xDSL. He has been involved in the specification and implementation of Telecom Italia’s DSL validation framework, lab facilities and in the scouting and qualification of DSL technologies and commercial products. He collaborated with chipset vendors within framework projects and was in charge of Telecom Italia’s Independent Test Lab third-party service. He currently manages a project supporting the engineering of Telecom Italia’s broadband network and the NGN2 platform. Mauro is responsible for the interoperability and assessment of DSL products, for the engineering of evolutionary infrastructural components
Matt Bocci
Broadband Forum Member
Director, Technology & Standards, Alcatel-Lucent
Languages Spoken: English
Matthew Bocci is Director of Technology and Standards with Alcatel-Lucent's IP Division. He is a regular contributor to the IETF, where he co-chairs the PWE3 and ANCP working groups, and the former IP/MPLS Forum where he chaired the Applications working group. He is co-author of a number of publications and IETF drafts and RFCs on MPLS-based converged networks. Previously, Matthew provided advanced technical consulting in traffic management, signaling and network performance. He holds a PhD in ATM network modeling from Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, and a B.Eng(hons)(1st class) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University College London. He is a member of Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy and the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Christele Bouchat
Broadband Forum Member
Standarization Expert and R&I Project Leader, Alcatel-Lucent
Languages Spoken: English, French, Dutch
Subject Matter Area: BroadbandHome
Christele Bouchat is leading projects in the area of Home Networking and End-to-End Services in the Research and Innovation department of Alcatel, Belgium. She is also responsible for the Standardization Strategy in the area of home networks and remote management of home devices and services.
She graduated as Civil Engineer in Physics from the University of Liege, Belgium, and joined the Research and Innovation center of Alcatel in 1998. Christele gained strong expertise during the years in a broad technical area: DSL, PON, Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing, Ethernet aggregation, data and control layer architectures and protocols, Quality of Service, Home network and services management, end-to-end architecture and Solutions. She is actively participating at the BroadbandHome group of Broadband Forum and is editor of key technical reports and working texts. She authored many papers in various Journals and presented publications at different international conferences. She issued 15 patents in the telecommunication field.
Doug Hunt
Broadband Forum Member
CTO Group, Alcatel-Lucent
Languages Spoken: English
Doug Hunt is a member of Alcatel-Lucent's corporate CTO group, where his responsibilities include the strategic development of MPLS-based services and technologies within Alcatel-Lucent and within industry standards organizations. He has over 20 years of experience in networking technologies, including a number of product architecture and development roles. Doug is actively involved in the Broadband Forum's work on MPLS in mobile backhaul networks and co-editor of the BBF's working text on MPLS-based mobile networks for LTE. He is the author or co-author of eight US patents relating to data communications and switching architectures.
Sven Ooghe
Broadband Forum Member
Network Analyst, Office of the CTO, Access Network Division, Alcatel-Lucent
Languages Spoken: Dutch, English, French
Subject Matter Area: TR-101, WT-126
Sven Ooghe received an MS degree in computer science from the University of Ghent (Belgium) in 2000. He studied telecommunication networks and computer architectures at the Faculty of Applied Sciences.
In 2000, he joined Alcatel's Network Strategy Group in Antwerp, where he initially worked on Policy Based Networking and Quality of Service in access networks. Currently, he works in the Office of the CTO of the Access Networks Division, determining the access strategy and coordinating access architecture related standardization initiatives. He is also actively involved in standardization, mainly in the Broadband Forum.
Rami Yaron
Broadband Forum Member
VP, Technology & Business Development, Americas, Axerra Networks, Inc.
Languages Spoken: English
Rami has over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Presently, Rami serves as Vice President of Technology and Business Development for the Americas at Axerra Networks, a leading provider of circuit and service emulation solutions over packet access networks. His responsibilities include: Technology and Standards, Mobile Backhaul network design for network providers and WSPs, and Strategic Product Management.
Prior to joining Axerra Networks, Rami held various positions in Engineering, Architecture, and Product Strategy at Carrier Access and Paragon Networks. Both companies focused on solutions for the Mobile Backhaul market. Rami holds an MS in Computer Science and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Haven.
Gavin Young
Cable & Wireless Worldwide
Languages Spoken: English
Gavin Young was a founding director of the Broadband Forum and served on the board of the Forum for six years. Gavin has previously led the Network Migration and VDSL working groups within the Forum and is currently overall technical chairman of the Broadband Forum.
Gavin is originally from the Isle of Wight. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University College of Swansea, Wales, in 1985, and the M.Sc. degree in Communications Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University in 1986.
From 1986-2000 he worked at BT, first in the Laboratories then named Technical Area Leader for BT's Copper Access team covering all DSL technologies before taking over leadership of a new Access Architecture & Design team within BT. This team covered IP and ATM aspects of access systems (copper, radio & fibre) together with local loop unbundling issues.
Gavin joined AdEvia in 2000, and subsequently was promoted to CTO where he led the design of pan-European broadband networks. He then moved to Bulldog Communications (now acquired by Cable & Wireless) where he has held a variety of responsibilities from heading product development through to network operations and CTO. Gavin is currently heading the engineering team focusing on the design and architecture of the national broadband network and associated network products.
Santiago Alvarez
Broadband Forum Member
Manager, Technical Marketing, Cisco Systems
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
Santiago Alvarez is Manager of Technical Marketing in the Network Software and Systems Technology Group at Cisco Systems. His group supports the introduction and customer adoption of new developments in IP Routing, MPLS, and Carrier Ethernet. He has been a regular speaker at various MPLS conferences throughout the world and at Cisco Networkers. He is the author of the Cisco Press title "QoS for IP/MPLS Networks". Santiago holds a BS in Computer Science, a MS in Computer Science and a MS in Telecommunications.
Salman Asadullah
Broadband Forum Member
Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems
Languages Spoken: English, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Panjabi
Salman Asadullah is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems and Fellow at IPv6 Forum. As a recognized expert within Cisco and the industry, Salman has been working with large-scale IP and multiservice networks and technologies for over 15 years. Salman represents Cisco in industry panel discussions and technical platforms such as APRICOT, IETF, BBF, IPv6 Forum, SCTE, Worldwide IPv6 Technical Forums and Network Operators Groups (NOG), CiscoLive, and etc. Salman influences technology directions and decisions with Cisco business units, network operators and Internet community at large. Salman is a co-author and contributor of RFCs and drafts produced by IETF. Salman has produced several technical articles, white papers, as well as three Internetworking books, Cisco CCIE Fundamentals: Network Design & Case Study, PDIOO of the IP Telephony Networks, and Deploying IPv6 in Broadband Access Networks. Salman is a Cisco Certified Internet Expert and holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kansas.
Sarah Banks
Broadband Forum Member
Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco Systems
Languages Spoken: English
Sarah Banks is a technical marketing engineer within the Service Provider Group at Cisco with a focus on next generation solutions. Sarah has over 14 years experience in content delivery and broadband networks and has held technical marketing engineering and product management positions at Nortel Networks and Ericsson and CDN design experience through Intervu (Akamai). Sarah studied computing science at Saint Mary's University and has actively participated in the Broadband Forum since 2007 and currently co-chairs the content development committee.
Luyuan Fang
Broadband Forum Member
Product Manager, Cisco Systems
Languages Spoken: English, Chinese
Dr. Luyuan Fang has over 20 years of experience in the communication industries. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1991. Since 2000, she has worked extensively in IP/MPLS architectural design and engineering, she gained first hand experience while working as one of the lead architects in AT&T's IP MPLS and VPN deployment. Luyuan is currently a Product Manager in Cisco. Her responsibilities include MPLS-TP and Carrier Ethernet features and products. Luyuan has been an active contributor in IETF since 2000. She has co-authored 9 RFCs and several active Internet Drafts in the MPLS, L2/L3 VPN, TE, and MPLS-TP. Luyuan has been a frequent speaker for several prominent MPLS and Carrier Ethernet Conferences worldwide for the last 10 years. She has over 90 technical publications, including IEEE articles, conference papers and industrial speeches.
Clarence Filsfils
Broadband Forum Member
Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems
Languages Spoken: English, French
Clarence Filsfils is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems. He hasheld key roles in Engineering and Marketing at Cisco Systems. Furthermore, Clarence has played a leadership role in the development of Quality of Service and IP/MPLS Routing Resiliency technology at Cisco Systems.
Clarence is a regular speaker at leading industry Conferences and Standards Development Organizations like the IETF. Clarence holds over 40 patents and has published several industry technology papers on Routing and Quality of Service. Clarence is also the author of a recent industry publication: "Service Provider deployments of Quality of Service (QoS)".
Clarence holds a Masters in Management from Solvay Business School at the University of Brussels and graduated with honors with a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Liege, Belgium.
Guillaume Gottardi
Broadband Forum Member
Consulting System Engineer, Cisco Systems
Languages Spoken: French, English
Guillaume Gottardi joined Cisco in 2000 and has been acting as a Consulting System Engineer for Cisco Systems since 2007. As part of Cisco Europe Service Providers Consulting team, he has been focusing on Carrier-Ethernet, IP NGN and broadband technologies, including FTTX. Since last year He spent a considerable amount of times on IPv6 transition strategies and IPv4 exhaustion technologies.
Yves Hertoghs
Broadband Forum Member
Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems
Languages Spoken: English, Dutch
Yves Hertoghs is a Distinguished Systems Engineer in the Innovation Consulting Engineering Group at Cisco Systems Europe. Yves joined Cisco in 1996, first in the Customer Support organization, and moving to Consulting Engineering in 1999. At Cisco, Yves focuses on Broadband Access and Aggregation, with a special focus on Carrier Ethernet, where he aids customers with designs and consultancy. Yves is very heavily involved with Cisco's R&D department in the realm of Carrier, Broadband and Converged and Enhanced Ethernet, aided by the feedback from customers and his focus on the industry fora.
Yves is a member of IEEE, the Metro Ethernet Forum and is actively participating in the Broadband Forum, where Ethernet is a hot topic these days. Yves owns a Master in Computer Engineering from the Technical University in Antwerp, Belgium.
In his free-time Yves plays quite loud guitar and writes, performs and records his own music.
Ian A. Hood
Broadband Forum Member
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Cisco Systems
Languages Spoken: English, French
Ian is currently responsible for driving the global market expansion of Carrier Ethernet, IPTV, and Mobile Internet transport solutions based on Cisco's IP NGN architecture. He is an expert on a broad portfolio of intelligent Carrier Ethernet, IP video, medianet, and mobile service delivery platforms and solutions designed to meet service provider needs. With over 25 years of experience in networking, Ian has held prominent roles leading the innovative and successful IPTV and Carrier Ethernet business operations for Motorola, Nortel, Bay Networks, and Wellfleet Communications.
Ian is an active participant in many technology and standards working groups (IEEE, IETF, MEF, and FTTH) and has contributed to the development of many standards with recognition by authors of IEEE and IETF working groups. He has spoken and moderated many sessions at technical conferences - Carrier Ethernet World Congress, Light Reading Ethernet Expo, FutureNet, MPLS World Congress, and Next Generation Ventures. In addition, Ian has been involved in many technology interoperability events for Carrier Ethernet, IP/MPLS, and G-MPLS.
Ian hails from Canada as a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, and holds an Honors B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He is a lifetime honored member of the International Executive Guild.
Monique Morrow
Broadband Forum Member
Distinguished Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems
Languages Spoken: English, French, German
Monique Morrow is currently Distinguished Consulting Engineer and Asia-Pacific Service Provider Chief Technology Officer at Cisco Systems, Inc. She has over 20 years experience in IP internetworking that includes design, implementation of complex customer projects and service development for service providers. Monique has been involved in developing managed Network Services like Remote Access and LAN Switching in a Service Provider environment. Monique has worked for both enterprise and service provider companies in the United States and in Europe. Monique led the Engineering Project team for one of the first European MPLS-VPN deployments in 1999 for a European service provider.
Monique has presented in various conferences on the topic of MPLS, Additionally, Monique is co-author of the book Designing IP-Based Services: Solutions for Vendors and Service Providers. Monique is co-author of the book, MPLS VPN Security and co-author of the book, MPLS and Next-Generation Networks: Foundations for NGN and Enterprise Virtualization. Monique is currently working on a book one that presents enterprise drivers and concerns for IP-based service delivery. She was co-guest editor of a special issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine on the subject of "OAM in MPLS-based Networks", published in October 2004; co-guest editor of a special issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine on the subject of "Challenges in Enabling Inter-Provider Service Quality on the Internet" published in June 2005 as well as co-guest editor of a special issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine on the subject of, "GMPLS: The Promise of the Next Generation Optical Control Plane," published in July 2005.
Carlos Pignataro
Broadband Forum Member
Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish, Italian
Carlos Pignataro is a recognized expert on network architectures, a Cisco Services Distinguished Engineer and a member of the Global Technical Center executive staff. Carlos has made industry contributions across many networking areas. He currently serves as co-chair of the L2tpext working group at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), is the assigned expert for the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority's protocol registry for ARP and L2TP and has co-authored or edited more than 18 RFCs and many Internet-Drafts. Carlos has contributed to standardization activities in IETF, Cablelabs, the MSForum and others. He has also participated in many interoperability events and contributed to the development of the Ethereal/Wireshark protocol analyzer.
In addition to several industry technology papers, he has co-authored two Cisco Press books (on multiservice switching networks and Layer 2 VPN architectures) and is co-inventor of more than fifteen issued or pending patents in the field of networking. Carlos has received various honors and awards, including most recently a Cisco Pioneer Award 2011 honorable mention in the productivity category. Carlos began his Cisco career in 1999 as an escalation engineer in the RTP Technical Assistance Center, and was named a Services Distinguished Engineer in 2007.
A Cisco Certified Internetwork Engineer for the last 10 years, Carlos received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in electrical engineering with networking specialization from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, both with honors. An engaging speaker, Carlos is a regular presenter and panelist at Cisco and Industry events around the world.
Joel Pennington
Broadband Forum Member
Director, Marketing and Business Development, ClearAccess
Languages Spoken: English
Joel Pennington is the Co-Founder of ClearAccess and the Director of Marketing and Business Development. Prior to ClearAccess, Joel spent over 10 years based in Australia, Europe and the US holding various roles in business advisory firms and companies in the Telecom industry. Most recently Joel held a management position in BearingPoint's Australian practice focused on the development and growth of alliances with strategic software and hardware vendors.
Prior to BearingPoint, Joel served as an initial member of Jetstream Communication's EMEA sales team based in London. Joel began his telecommunications career in the US with Nortel Networks were he was selected to participate in Nortel's Leadership Development Program. He was subsequently awarded a long-term expatriate assignment to the UK in 2000 to strengthen Nortel's European DSL business.
Joel holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Clemson University in addition to a Masters in Commercial Law and an MBA from Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.
Amit CohenBroadband Forum Member
Associate Vice President of System Design, ECI Telecom
Languages Spoken: English, Hebrew
Subject Matter Area: TR-101
Amit Cohen is an Associate Vice President of System Design for ECI Telecom's Broadband Access Division. Since he joined ECI Telecom in 1998 as a system architect, he has played a leading role in the design and implementation of ECI's broadband access product lines, as well as in their deployment in leading telecom operators worldwide.
In the past few years, Amit has been instrumental in the standardization of network architectures that enable the delivery of multimedia services over DSL access networks. As part of this effort, he was co-editor of ITU-T H.610 (Full-Service VDSL - System Architecture and Customer Premises Equipment) and DSL Forum TR-101 (Migration to Ethernet Based DSL Aggregation). Amit holds a B.A. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
David Allan
Broadband Forum Member
Sr. Program Manager, Standards and Strategy, Ericsson
Languages Spoken: English
David Allan is the co-chair of the Broadband Forum Architecture & Transport committee and a Sr. Program Manager for Standards and Strategy for Ericsson. He has been active in data telecommunications standards for the past fourteen years participating directly or indirectly in numerous standards development activities and the transition of new technology to product. He has been active for over twenty five years as an architect, design engineer and developer of real time systems in diverse areas of technology ranging from process control and avionics to financial transaction processing. Prior to joining Ericsson he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Nortel CTO Office. His current role at Ericsson is focused on carrier infrastructure, and the evolution of broadband access and services.
Hector Avalos
Broadband Forum Member
Director Technology, Architectures and Solutions Product Area IP and Broadband, Ericsson
Languages Spoken: English, French and Spanish
Hector Avalos has 20 years of experience in the data communication industry. He currently holds the position of Director of Technology and Solutions within Ericsson's Product Area IP and Broadband. He works with his team in providing network transformation design assistance for Mobile Backhaul, xDSL/FTTx Backhaul, Metro and Packet Mobile Core solutions for wireless and wireline operators around the world. Prior to Ericsson, Hector worked 9 years at Juniper Networks as Technical Director, where he built and managed the pre-sales engineering team in Southern Europe and the consulting engineering team in EMEA. At Juniper, Hector worked in providing network design assistance to service providers and wire-line operators deploying IP/MPLS core, metro and Multi-play networks. Hector also worked as Network Consultant for 3Com and Proteon designing data networks for large enterprise and service providers in EMEA. Hector possesses a BSc. in Computing Science from Universidad de las Americas in Mexico.
Elisa Bellagamba
Broadband Forum Member
Portfolio Strategy Manager, Ericsson
Languages Spoken: English/Italian
Elisa Bellagamba received her MSc degree in Computer Science Engineering in 2006 from Pisa University, Italy. In 2007 she joined Ericsson R&D laboratory in Pisa, working on the implementation of GMPLS for optical networks. In 2008 she moved to Stockholm to join the Ericsson Research team focused on broadband networks and packet systems and since then she has been actively contributing in IETF within MPLS and CCAMP working groups. She recently joined the Product Strategy group in the IP and Broadband area where she contributes with studies on Ericsson Portfolio and strategy.
Jaume Rius i Riu
Broadband Forum Member
Broadband Forum Coordinator and Project Manager, Ericsson
Languages Spoken: Spanish, Catalan, Swedish, English and French
Jaume Rius i Riu (PhD, MSc) received a MSc. in Physics from Autonomic University of Barcelona (1996), a Master in Teaching and Pedagogy from University of Lleida (1997), a Researcher Qualifying degree from University of Barcelona (1998) and a PhD in Experimental Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (2002). He was a Post Doctoral fellow at the Physics department of Oulu University (2003). He has been with Ericsson since 2004.
From 2004 to 2006 he was the First Mile Technologies work package leader at the EU 6FP MUSE project. From 2004 to 2006 he was project manager for a number of xDSL research projects, member of Ericsson's European Commission research steering board and member of support teams for Broadband business case analysis and preparation. Since 2006 he has actively participated in Ericsson's broadband networks strategies and project planning. Since 2007 he has been Ericsson's Broadband Forum Coordinator and Project Manager for Broadband Forum related activities. Since 2007 he has been one of the 15 members of the Industrial Research Group (IFG) within the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering and Sciences (IVA). He has been a member of the BBF Fixed Mobile Convergence Oversight Committee (FMC-OC) since 2008.
David GreggainsLifetime Ambassador
Director, Greggains Management Ltd.
Languages Spoken: English
Management consulting as a director of Gorham & Partners Ltd., led David Greggains to become one of the originators of Broadband Forum, organizing - together with Motorola - the first exploratory meeting in London in October 1994.
David Greggains graduated from Liverpool University, in England, with a degree in engineering. After a short time working in consulting, he went on to the University of California at Berkeley where he gained the degree of Master of Science.
Hongyu Li
Broadband Forum Member
Senior Engineer, Huawei Technologies
Languages Spoken: Chinese, English
Hongyu Li joined Huawei in 2000 and became one of the earliest team members of IP DSLAM product and collected profound experience in access products and services. Now Hongyu works in the Advanced Technology Department and performs research of architecture, services and solutions for fixed access and aggregation network and is focussed on standard related activities.
Hongyu has attended the Broadband Forum meetings as a representative for Huawei since 2005. He is widely involved in broadband access and aggregation network technologies related standard organizations. He is a member of IEEE and attends IETF, ITU-T SG15 and CCSA. In 2008 Hongyu was awarded the Outstanding Contributor Award by the Broadband Forum.
Hongyu has been an active contributor in the Architecture & Transport Working Group and is an editor for WT-178 and WT-207.
Kevin Xu
Broadband Forum Member
Director of Business Solution Marketing, Network Product Line, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Languages Spoken: English, Chinese
Mr. Xu is responsible for business solution marketing of Network Product Line covering Broadband Access, IP and Optical products and solutions. He is also a member of the Broadband Forum. He was elected as an ambassador of the Broadband Forum in 2007. Mr. Xu has over 10 years of experience in the marketing, R&D and operations in the Telecommunication and Automobile industry. He holds 6 patents in the Telecommunication enclosure field.
Mr. Xu received a Master of Management degree from McGill University (Canada). He also obtained Master and Bachelor degrees in Engineering.
Dean Cheng
Broadband Forum Member
Principal Engineer, Huawei Technologies
Languages Spoken: English, Chinese
Dean Cheng joined FutureWei Technologies, located in Santa Clara California, in March 2009 as a Principal Engineer in the Advanced Technology Department with focus on IP networking technology development at standards organizations including IETF and Broadband Forum. Previously Mr. Cheng worked for Cisco Systems for about 13 years as a senior architect and technical leader on router and switch products, 3 years as a principal architect for Polaris Networks, 6 years as principal architect for Retix Systems, and 4 years as a senior software engineer for Burroughs Corporations. Mr. Cheng’s technical area is primarily in routing, MPLS and IPv6 with total 29 years experience in networking and data communication industry in the U.S.
Dean started attending Broadband Forum meeting late 2009 with focus on IPv6 technology in the broadband networks with contributions for PD-192 (now TR-124i2), WT-177 (now TR-177) and WT-187 (now TR-187). Dean is co-editor of WT-242, IPv6 Transition Mechanisms for Broadband Networks, from the beginning and continues to work on the document in the End-to-End Architecture Working Group with the latest revision 4 just posted. The other editor for WT-242 is Steven Wright, AT&T. Dean has (co-)authored several contributions many of which have been adopted by the E2E Working Group.
Benjamin Hickey
Broadband Forum Member
Consulting Engineer, Juniper Networks
Languages Spoken: English
Ben joined Juniper Networks in 2005 and his primary focus is next generation IP broadband networks and services. Ben helps Juniper's clients in Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific in defining broadband architectures to enable the delivery of innovative services for their customers. Ben also represents Juniper at the Broadband Forum, being an active participant in the standards development within the Architecture & Transport working group, as well as representing the Broadband forum as an Ambassador. Prior to Juniper Ben was a Senior Consultant with Accenture.
Bill Welch
Broadband Forum Member
Product Line Manager, Juniper Networks
Languages Spoken: English
Bill has attended and contributed to Broadband Forum since 2005 in areas of policy management and is the current editor of WT-134. Bill holds MBA from Boston College and Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston Massachusetts. With 15+ years of industry experience, he actively participates and contributes in standards activity at DSL Forum, Broadband Services Forum and CableLabs.
Bill has held Sales, Marketing and Professional services positions at Bay Networks, Nortel Networks and Unisphere Network. He currently holds a Product Line Manager position at Juniper Network for the E Series Broadband Services Router.
Yakov Rekhter
Broadband Forum Member
Juniper Fellow, Juniper Networks
Languages Spoken: English
Dr. Yakov Rekhter joined Juniper Networks in Dec 2000, where he is
a Juniper Fellow. Prior to joining Juniper, Yakov worked at Cisco
Systems, where he was a Cisco Fellow. Prior to joining Cisco in
1995, he worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.Yakov Rekhter was one of the leading architects and a major software
developer of the NSFNET Backbone Phase II. He co-designed the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). He was also one of the lead designers of Tag Switching, MPLS Traffic Engineering, BGP/MPLS based VPNs (aka 2547 VPNs), and multicast support in BGP/MPLS based VPNs.
His other contributions to contemporary TCP/IP technologies include his work on Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS), Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR), and IP address allocation for private internets.Yakov is the author or co-author of over 70 IETF RFCs, and numerous papers and articles on TCP/IP and the Internet. His books include: "MPLS: Technology and Applications" (Morgan Kauffman, 2000) and "Switching in IP Networks: IP Switching, Tag Switching and Related Technologies" (Morgan Kauffman, 1998).
Dr. Lindsy Frost
Broadband Forum Member
Chief Standardization Engineer, NEC
Languages Spoken: English and German
Lindsay Frost has a Ph.D. in physics and - after working in European companies on computing and telematics and as a research manager in facilities in Germany, Italy and Australia - he joined NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg (Germany) eleven years ago to work on 3G telecommunications. After managing R&D teams for 3GPP, SIP, WiMAX and WLAN, including work as chairman of the Wi-Fi Alliances' WiFi-Mobile Convergence Marketing Task Group, he concentrated in the last years on standardization activities.
Nominated as chairman of ETSI TISPAN WG5 for Home Networks standardization, he has encouraged work in the area of Smart Metering and energy efficiency and the collaboration with other groups such as ETSI M2M, ETSI ATTM, HGI, BBF, ITU-T.
David Kessens
Broadband Forum Member
Nokia Siemens Networks
Languages Spoken: English, Dutch, French
David Kessens is currently employed with Nokia Siemens Networks in the Research, Technology & Platforms organization and he is based in Mountain View, CA. He is actively involved with the issues related to the introduction of IPv6 in the Internet. In addition, David currently cochairs the netmod working group in IETF and he chairs the RIPE IPv6 working group which facilitates the introduction of IPv6 in the European region. While still working for Nokia, David served as the Operations and Management Area Director for the IETF.
Nurit Sprecher
Broadband Forum Member
Manager, Industry Environment Packet Transport Evolution Project, Nokia Siemens Networks
Languages Spoken: English, Hebrew
Nurit Sprecher is a standards' senior specialist at Nokia Siemens Networks. She has 20 years of experience in the Telecommunication industry.
For many years Nurit worked as an expert System Engineer and technologist, defining carrier grade network and product specifications in areas in the forefront of the industry technology. In the last couple of years, Nurit is in charge of the company's standard and Industry Environment activities related to Packet Transport Evolution, covering aspects such as packet transport network, synchronization, 40/100 GB Ethernet, MEF architecture and services, solutions over packet such as Mobile Backhauling, Enterprise services, etc.
Nurit is an expert in packet transport networks and technologies, contributes to the related work in IETF, ITU-T SG15, IEEE and BBF, and participates in core discussions on next generation packet transport network with Tier-1 carriers. Nurit participated in the European CELTIC TIGER project which analyzed solutions for a better adaptation of IP and Ethernet layers to address the Metro Ethernet growing market. This project won the Celtic Excellence Award in gold.
Jaime Fink
Broadband Forum Member
Vice President, Technology & Strategy, Pace
Languages Spoken: English
Mr. Fink leads product and technology strategy for Pace, overseeing the development of managed Internet products and services for the digital home. With over 14 million managed residential gateways shipped at Pace to date, he has also served as a leading industry visionary, defining the role of the residential gateway in end-to-end IPTV and VoIP architectures. Mr. Fink also leads Pace's industry standards efforts to drive key residential gateway requirements in the Broadband Forum and Home Gateway Initiative, and played a key role in developing the highly successful DSL Forum TR-069 CPE WAN Management Protocol.
Over the past 13 years Mr. Fink has delivered numerous video and voice telephony and broadband Internet products and services. In his previous role as director of product marketing for Pace, Jaime defined the corporate product strategy for wireless home networking, voice over IP, and DSL markets. Prior to Pace, Jaime was head of product management at Zhone Technologies, and senior product manager at Polycom, Inc. Jaime holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of California at Irvine.
Peter Macaulay
Broadband Forum Member
Principal Consultant, ZDSL.com (East by North, Inc.)
Languages Spoken: English
Peter Macaulay has been a member of the Broadband Forum for the past 10 years and was recently given the Outstanding Service Award by the Broadband Forum for many years of service in tutorial teaching excellence. Peter is an independent trainer and consultant focused on the successful deployment of DSL.
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