Partner with Interisle Consulting Group to support Interisle's telecommunications and networking clients. See www.interisle.net for more information on Interisle.Available for contracting in telecommunications and networking product and protocol development and related standardization, and as an expert witness for patent litigation. Extensive experience in networking protocol architecture and evolution, leading edge product architecture and strategic planning, service provider network planning, technology transfer, leadership in international standardization bodies (Internet Engineering Task Force, Broadband Forum, ITU-T, Open Networking Foundation, etc.), standards authorship (having authored over 40 IETF RFCs), pre-sales and post-sales customer consultation, and chairing and speaking roles at conferences and other industry events. Previously, has held senior engineering positions at Futurewei Technologies (Huawei's USA R&D subsidiary), Verizon Communications, Tellabs, Vivace Networks, Ascom Nexion, Ascend Communications, Cascade Communications, Bolt Beranek and Newman, and MITRE.Specialties: Internetworking, telecom and networking standardization activities, IP, IPv6, MPLS, Ethernet, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), WAN, LAN, and other other telecom and data networking protocols

Currently co-chair the Pseudowire And LDP-enabled Services (PALS) working group in the IETF, and have chaired other working groups in the past. Have also authored or co-authored over 40 IETF standards documents, known as Requests for Comments (RFCs).

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Available for contracting in telecommunications and networking product and protocol development and related standardization, and as an expert witness for patent litigation. Extensive experience in networking protocol architecture and evolution, leading edge product architecture and strategic planning, service provider network planning, technology transfer, leadership in international standardization bodies (Internet Engineering Task Force, Broadband Forum, ITU-T, Open Networking Foundation, etc.), standards authorship (having authored over 40 IETF RFCs), pre-sales and post-sales customer consultation, and chairing and speaking roles at conferences and other industry events. Previously, has held senior engineering positions at Futurewei Technologies (Huawei's USA R&D subsidiary), Verizon Communications, Tellabs, Vivace Networks, Ascom Nexion, Ascend Communications, Cascade Communications, Bolt Beranek and Newman, and MITRE.Specialties: Internetworking, telecom and networking standardization activities, IP, IPv6, MPLS, Ethernet, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), WAN, LAN, and other other telecom and data networking protocols.

Responsibilities include the development of Futurewei's next-generation network architectures and technologies, customer consultation, and standards leadership.

Facilitate and support the work in the ONF's Services Area, which enables network operator services and applications with SDN technologies.

Was the technical leader and primary editor of the End-to-End Architecture work item for the ETSI Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Industry Standards Group (ISG).

Was VP and Board member of the BBF, resigned from the board when I moved from Verizon to Huawei (Huawei already had board representation). Currently technical contributor.

Network architecture and evolution; future network planning; standards participation, planning and strategy; and vendor consultation.

Past member of the Internet Engineering Task Force's IAB, which sets the architectural direction for the Internet. See http://www.iab.org for more information.

Note that Tellabs purchased Vivace Networks in June 2003.

Cascade Communications merged with Ascend Communications in July 1997, and Ascend Communications merged with Lucent Technologies in June 1999.