Alexander Koch Email & Phone Number

United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• continuation of role, with emphasis on regional development, played a key role in the IP and services growth of the Americas for Telia• drove the peering strategy, resulting in large OPEX reductions and improved connectivity for AS1299 globally• growing role in Telia Carrier's recently- formed Network Engineering and Architecture group for responsibilities that previously did reside in Telia Group in a centralized function

Frankfurt Area, Germany

• responsible for Telia Group peering• significantly increased peering footprint and solidity of interconnects, leading today’s trend for peering in Tier2/ Tier3 cities and creating a unique selling point for Telia• actively participate in all Engineering topics such as the IGP Metric plan, network performance improvements and efficiencies, platform evaluations, etc.

Greater New York City Area

• selection of router vendor, facilities/ cities, suppliers (MSAs), network rollout• negotiated several key interconnects based on traffic statistics• implemented BGP Anycast in support of Panther’s global CDN platform

Frankfurt Area, Germany

• IP Network Engineering activities including backbone and peering traffic engineering and Tier 3 Operations• Initiating the global peering footprint of Nacamar/ Worldonline/ Tiscali/ Tinet AS3257, today known as GTT (Top 5 global backbone)• Role evolved into a broader responsibility covering various aspects of Presales Support, Product and Bid Management, while still being Peering Manager

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