 Pete Anslow
Ciena
Pete Anslow is the Associate Rapporteur of Q.6/15, is the Liaison Rapporteur between ITU-T SG15 and IEEE 802.3, was the Chair of the Optical Sub-task Force of IEEE P802.3ba, and was the Chief Editor of the IEEE P802.3bg, P802.3bm, and P802.3bs projects. After graduating in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College London, Pete worked for Racal on VHF radio design for 3 years before joining STC's Harlow Labs in 1980. He worked there on Optical transmission technology for submarine systems until STC was taken over by Nortel and the lab changed focus to terrestrial optical systems in 1994. Pete became the leader of the Optical Physical Layer Advanced Technology Group from 2003 to the end of 2004 when he changed role to participate in optical standards full time, transitioning to Ciena in March 2010 with their acquisition of Nortel's Optical business. Pete is a Ciena Distinguished Engineer. |
 Rodney Cummings
National Instruments
Rodney Cummings is a Principal Software Architect at National Instruments, with a focus on Ethernet technologies for time synchronization and time-sensitive networking. He is co-chair of the Architecture subcommittee in the IEEE 1588 working group, and co-author of the draft standard for IEEE 1588-2008 YANG in the IETF TICTOC working group. He is editor of IEEE P802.1Qcc, draft standard for configuration of time-sensitive networks in the IEEE 802.1 working group. Rodney received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. |
 John D’Ambrosia
Futurewei
John D'Ambrosia is a Senior Principal Engineer at Futurewei, a subsidiary of Huawei. Currently, he chairs the IEEE 802.3 Beyond 10km Optical PHYs Study Group, is a member of the IEEE 802 Executive Committee, and chairs the IEEE 802.3 New Ethernet Applications (NEA) Ad Hoc. Previously, he chaired the IEEE 802.3ba Task Force that developed 40GbE/100GbE and the IEEE 802.3bs Task Force that was responsible for 200GbE/400GbE. He is also the Chairman of the Ethernet Alliance. In 2013 D'Ambrosia was awarded the IEEE-SA 2013 Standards Medallion and inducted into the Light Reading Hall of Fame. His previous experience includes Dell, Force10 Networks, and Tyco Electronics. |
 Frank J. Effenberger
Futurewei Technologies, Inc
After completing his doctoral work in 1995, Dr. Effenberger worked at Bellcore, where he analyzed all types of access network technologies, especially passive optical networks. He witnessed the early development of the FSAN initiative and the APON standard. In 2000, he moved to Quantum Bridge Communications, where he managed the system engineering group. This work supported the development and standardization of advanced optical access systems based on B-PON and G-PON technologies. In 2006, he became Director of FTTx in the advanced technology department of Futurewei Technologies USA. He remains heavily involved in standards work, and in 2008, he became the chairman of ITU-T Q2/15. He and his team work on forward-looking fiber and copper access technologies, including the 10G EPON, XG-PON, and 40G-PON. Notably, his team supported the world’s first trials of XG-PON and 40G-PON. In 2011, he was named as Huawei Fellow, and in 2012 was promoted to VP of access research. In 2015, he was named as a Fellow of both the OSA and the IEEE. He holds 80 US patents. |
 János Farkas
Ericsson Research
Dr. János Farkas is senior specialist of deterministic networking at Ericsson Research. He is the Chair of the IEEE 802.1 Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) Task Group and the Editor of the IEEE P802.1CM TSN for Fronthaul project. He was the Editor of IEEE 802.1Qca Path Control and Reservation, one of the main contributors to IEEE 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging, and an active contributor to various IEEE 802.1 standards. He is an active contributor and a co-Chair of the IETF Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Working Group, co-author of multiple drafts. His recent focus is deterministic packet networking. He has been also working on carrier networks. His former research activities include IP QoS solutions for radio access networks and network traffic management. He has a number of patents and research papers in the area of telecommunications networks. He has Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
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 Norman Finn
Consultant, Huawei
Norman Finn is an industry expert on Layer 2 protocols, Ethernet switching, and Deterministic Networking. He began his standards activities in the ATM Forum, where his work on LAN Emulation and Muilti-Protocol Over ATM earned him an ATM Spotlight Award. He worked for Cisco Systems from 1993 to 2016, retiring as a Cisco Fellow, and now is consulting for Huawei. Norm has been active in IEEE 802 since 1996, where he has served as an editor of eight standards in 802.1 and one in 802.11. Norm has made more than a hundred technical and liaison contributions over the years, starting with the origins of 802.1Q VLANs, and to numerous projects in IEEE 802.3, 802.17, and 802.11, for which he received the IEEE Standards Association Medallion. He now serves on the IEEE 802 / IETF Coordination Committee. Norm has also participated meaningfully in ITU-T (Y.1731), AVnu Alliance, and the IETF, where he instrumental in the creation of the Deterministic Networking Working Group. At present, his focus is on expanding Deterministic Networking into mixed routed and bridged networks. In addition to his standards activity, Norm invented and/or influenced many of the Cisco Catalyst switching concepts and protocols including VLANs, the Port Aggregation Protocol, Cisco Discovery Protocol, Provider Ethernet, and Deterministic Networking. He has been awarded more than 100 patents. His publications include an IEEE Spectrum article and a book chapter. Norm is proud of his B.S. in Astronomy from the California Institute of Technology. He and his wife, Nilene Thompson-Finn, enjoy living in Spring Valley, CA; both have been singing in barbershop quartets and choruses for more than 30 years. |
 Steven S. Gorshe
IEEE Fellow
Steven S. Gorshe is an IEEE Fellow. He received his B.S.E.E. in 1979 from the University of Idaho, and M.S.E.E. in 1982 and Ph.D. in 2002 in electronics/computer engineering from Oregon State University. He has worked since 1982 in research and development of telecommunications systems and ICs, and is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Microsemi Corp., where is working on technology for optical transmission and access systems. He is also currently Rapporteur for ITU-T Q11/15, which is responsible for optical transport network standards. His standards activity there and in other bodies includes over 400 contributions, and multiple technical editorships. Dr. Gorshe has 39 patents granted/pending, is co-author of 2 textbooks, chapters in 4 other textbooks, and over 29 papers. Dr. Gorshe's IEEE service includes Editor-in-Chief for
IEEE Communications Magazine, and both Director of Magazines and Board of Governors Member-at-Large for the IEEE Communications Society. |
 Marc Holness
Ciena
Marc Holness is a Distinguished Engineer at Ciena, working as a Packet Networking Product Line Architect at Ciena, where he is focused on the requirements and system development of Packet Networking solutions for Mobile Backhaul, Business services, and Cloud applications. Marc has over 20 years of telecommunications industry experience spanning optical and packet networking, system architecture, and engineering design. Marc has incubated new technologies/protocols, driven them into standards, and has guided the development across multiple Carrier Ethernet platforms. He has numerous patents in packet network protection mechanisms, OAM, and Optical network management. Marc is an active participant of standards development organizations (e.g., IEEE, ITU-T, etc.), and has held several editorial roles within IEEE 802, including IEEE 802.1Qcp YANG Data Model for Bridges and Bridged Networks, IEEE 802.1Qcx YANG Data Model for Connectivity Fault Management for Bridges and Bridged Networks, IEEE 802.1Xck YANG Data Model for Port-Based Network Access Control, and IEEE 802.17a/b Bridging for 802.17. Marc received his B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Toronto. |
 Curtis Knittle
Wired Technologies, CableLabs
As Vice President of Wired Technologies at CableLabs, Curtis and his team are responsible for specifying scalable deployment solutions in both HFC and all-fiber access networks for CableLabs member companies. DOCSIS technologies, Full Duplex DOCSIS, Distributed CCAP Architectures, and point to point coherent optics are a few current high priority projects underway and lead by members of the Wired Technologies team. Prior to joining CableLabs, Curtis lead an engineering team at Harmonic, Inc. to develop the world's first CMTS-in-a-node and Ethernet-switch-in-a-node, both solutions representing the first instantiation of what today is called deep fiber distributed architecture solutions for the cable industry. Currently, Curtis is also the Chair of the IEEE 802.3ca 100G-EPON Task Force, helping to usher in the first 100Gb/s PON solution. Curtis holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico, and an M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University. |
 Glen Kramer
Broadband Carrie Access Group
Glen Kramer, a Distinguished Engineer in Broadband Carrie Access Group, has joined Broadcom through its acquisition of Teknovus, Inc., where he served as Chief Scientist. He has done extensive research in areas of traffic management, quality of service, and fairness in access networks. Prior to Teknovus, Glen worked at the Advanced Technology Lab at Alloptic, Inc., where he was responsible for design and performance analysis of PON scheduling protocols and was involved in prototyping the world's first EPON system. Glen chairs the IEEE 1904 Access Networks Working Group that developed the standard for Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks. He is also a vice chair of IEEE 802.3ca task force that develops the next generation of ultra-high speed PONs. Previously he served as chair of IEEE P802.3av "10 Gb/s Ethernet Passive Optical Networks" task force and as EPON protocol clause editor in IEEE 802.3ah "Ethernet in the First Mile" task force. Glen has authored 28 patents. His book Ethernet Passive Optical Networks has been published in English (McGraw-Hill, 2005) and Chinese (BUPT Press, 2007). Glen received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of California at Davis, where he was awarded an NSF grant to study next-generation broadband access networks. |
 Hing-Kam (Kam) Lam
Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies
Dr Kam LAM has been active in many standards development organizations, including ITU-T, ONF, TM Forum, ATIS, and IETF. He is the editor and co-editors of many standards specifications in the areas of network management architecture, FCAPS functions, and information models. He serves as the Rapporteur of ITU-T Study Group 15 Question 14, which is responsible for transport resource management and control standardization. He is also the co-chair of the Open Information Modeling & Tooling (OIMT) group of the ONF. Kam is a Senior Consultant at FiberHome. Previously he had been a CMTS at Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, Lucent, and Principal Engineer at Bellcore. He has a Ph.D. degree in Statistics and was a tenured faculty member from 1978 – 1986. |
David Law
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
David Law is a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and has worked on the specification and development of Ethernet products since 1989. Throughout that time he has been a member of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group where he has held a number of leadership positions. He has served as the Chair of IEEE 802.3 since 2008 and before that served as the Vice-Chair from 1996. David has received the IEEE-SA Standards Medallion, the IEEE-SA Standards Board Distinguished Service Award, the IEEE-SA International Award, the 2016 IEEE Computer Society Karlsson Award and the 2017 IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award.
David earned his BEng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland. |
 Jeffery Maki
Juniper Networks
Dr. Jeffery Maki is a Distinguished Engineer II at Juniper Networks working on cloud optics. He has a Ph.D. in Optics from The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. He is an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet voter. In the OIF, he is PLUG Working Group Chairman and technical voter for Juniper Networks. For the Consortium for On-Board Optics (COBO), he is Vice President and Data Center Networking Working Group Chairman. He is vice-chairman of the 100G Lambda MSA Group. He is a participant in the QSFP-DD and SFP-DD MSA groups. He is an OSA and IEEE member. |
 Scott Mansfield
Ericsson
Scott Mansfield is a Standard Researcher at Ericsson focusing on wireline network standardization. Scott is Vice-Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 13 and the Chairman of the Joint Coordination Activity on IMT-2020 (JCA-ITM2020). Also in the ITU-T, Scott is the Associate Rapporteur of Question 14 in Study Group 15 and the editor of the protocol neutral network management modeling recommendations for Ethernet, MPLS-TP, and OTN. Scott is active in IETF serving as the IETF - ITU-T liaison coordinator. Scott is the co-chair of the Internet Society Advisory Council, providing leadership to bridge the gap between technology and public policy related groups. Scott is the editor of the YANG model for Link Layer Discovery in IEEE 802.1. Scott is a MEF Distinguished Fellow, serves on the MEF Board of the Directors, and is the founding board representative of the MEF's industry-wide coordination and collaboration activity called UNITE. |
 István Moldován
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)
István Moldován is a researcher at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). He has been working on prototyping Time-Sensitive Networking and supporting standardization as visiting researcher at Ericsson Research Budapest since May 2016. He has several years of experience in the area of Ethernet networking, QoS in networks, traffic engineering, network management, simulation and performance evaluation of computer networks. In the last decade he was involved in numerous industrial projects. He is a lecturer of several courses of communication networks. He is author of many journal and conference papers. István holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Petru Maior University, Tirgu Mures. |
 Gary Nicholl
Cisco Systems
Gary is a Principal Engineer working in the Data Center Networking group at Cisco Systems. He is responsible for the strategy and development of next generation interconnect for Cisco’s Data Center switching platforms. Gary also represents Cisco at various industry standards organizations, and was an active contributor in the development of 40G and100G standards at the IEEE, OIF and ITU. His current focus is on standards related to the development of 400Gb/s Ethernet. Prior to joining Cisco, Gary spent 10 years at Nortel Networks in Ottawa, working in various R&D roles in the development of OC-3, OC-12 and OC48 optical transport products. Gary holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester (UK). |
 Glenn Parsons
Ericsson Canada
Glenn Parsons is an internationally known expert in mobile backhaul/fronthaul and Ethernet technology. He is a standards advisor with Ericsson Canada, where he coordinates standards strategy and policy for Ericsson, including network architecture for 5G radio transport networks. Previously, he has held positions in development, product management and standards architecture in the ICT industry. Over the past number of years, he has held several management and editor positions in various standards activities including IETF, IEEE, and ITU-T. He is currently involved with 5G transport standardization in MEF, IEEE and ITU-T and is the working group chair of IEEE 802.1 as well as a vice-chair of ITU-T SG15. He is a Technical Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine and Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Communications Standards Magazine. He graduated in 1992 with a B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland. |
 Duane R Remein
Huawei Technologies
Mr Remein's experience in telecommunications spans over 30 years. His career began as a hardware engineer designing processors and processor based sub-systems. In 1990 Mr Remein joined Alcatel developing SONET multiplexors. He was selected to form and manage the Systems Design Group for Alcatel's newly formed PON product development team in 1999. He joined FiberHome as Technical Director of Standards in 2009 where he focused on PON system standards. Recruited by Huawei Technologies in 2011, he now holds the position of Director Access R&D. Mr Remein has extensive experience in international standards organizations having participated in ITU-T Q2, FSAN, IEEE 802.3ah EFM Task Force; IEEE 802.3av Task Force (where he held the position of Chief Editor), IEEE P1904.1 Working Group (where he was Vice Chair), IEEE 802.3bk Task Force, IEEE 802.3ac 100G-EPON and other SDOs. He is currently is active in IEEE 802.3ac 100G-EPON , 802.3.2 Ethernet YANG, and Broadband Forum Cloud CO projects. Mr Remein holds several patents dealing with SONET and optical access systems. |
 Stefano Ruffini
Ericsson
Graduated in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Rome " La Sapienza" (Italy). Joined Ericsson in 1993 working on synchronization aspects for more than 20 years. He is one of the Ericsson experts working on 5G transport and sync aspects. He is currently contributing to ITU-T, serving as Rapporteur of Q13/15 and IEEE1588 Liaison Rapporteur, and to other relevant standardization bodies and forums. Has published several international journal papers and is co-author of a book dealing with IEEE1588 and Synchronous Ethernet. |
 Peter Stassar
Huawei Technologies
Peter Stassar has 37 years working expertise on optical transmission technologies. Since 1989 he has been heavily engaged in ITU-T SG15 Q6 “Characteristics of optical systems for terrestrial transport networks”. He is Rapporteur of Q6 since 2006. Since 2011 he is participating in IEEE 802.3’s activities on high speed client side optical interface specifications, for 25GE – 400GE applications, and has been editor for SMF Clauses in P802.3bs 200GE/400GE and P802.3cd 50GE/100GE projects.
Since 2011 he is employed by Huawei Technologies. Previously he worked for Finisar and Lucent Technologies/AT&T/Philips Telecom. In 1980 he graduated as MSEE at Eindhoven University of Technology. |
 Steve Trowbridge
Nokia
Dr Stephen J. Trowbridge is Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 15,
Networks, Technologies and Infrastructures for Transport, Access and Home. He is a Consulting Director of Standardization at Nokia. He received his B.S. (EE&CS), M.S. (CS), and Ph.D. (CS) from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He joined Bell Laboratories–AT&T (now Nokia) in 1977. He has been active in optical networking standardization since 1995. He was a member of the IEEE P802.3ba 100 Gb/s Ethernet and IEEE P802.3bs 200 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s Ethernet editorial teams. He is editor of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) Flex Ethernet implementation agreement. He was named a Bell Labs Fellow in 2014. |
 Bernd Teichmann
Nokia, Optics R&D
Bernd Teichmann is Editor of G.698.2,
Amplified multichannel dense wavelength division multiplexing applications with single channel optical interfaces and Rapporteur of ITU-T Study Group 17, Question 7, Characteristics of optical components and subsystems. He is a Technical Manager at Nokia, Optics R&D. He received his M.S. (Electrical Engineering) from the Technical University Ilmenau, Germany. He joined AT&T Network Systems (now Nokia) in 1995. He started working on development of optical subsystems and high speed optical interfaces in 1991. Since 2005 he has been active in optical interface standardization at ITU-T Study Group 15. |
 Balázs Varga
Ericsson Research
Balázs Varga is currently working at Ericsson Research on 5G related technologies and Packet Evolution studies to integrate Mobile, IP, Ethernet and MPLS networks (Fronthaul, Backhaul, Network Slicing). He is driving the implementation of Industrial use cases over 5G as well. He represents Ericsson in standardization: MEF (Transport for 5G, IP Services), IETF (DetNet) and IEEE (802.1 TSN). Before joining Research, he worked on the multiservice portfolio of Ericsson and on backhaul networks in the "IP/MPLS and Core" workgroup of Broadband Forum. He is a well-known expert at international level, Dr. Varga is author of several patents. Previously Dr Varga was Head of Department of Broadband System Development at R&D Directorate of Magyar Telekom (Hungary). He directed and coordinated activities of an R&D group responsible to the enhancement of broadband service portfolio (e.g. IP VPN, L2 VPN, 3play, IPv6) and introduction of new broadband technologies (e.g., Ethernet, xDSL, GPON). Prior to assuming his position, he was the technical team leader at the IP Competence Center of Magyar Telekom (MT), which was a joint organization of MT and Cisco. Dr Varga received his third level education at the Technical University of Budapest, where he was awarded a Master of Science Degree with Distinction in Electrical Engineering in 1993 followed by a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering in 1996. He represented Magyar Telekom in standardization bodies and participated in several international projects. Specialties: 5G architectures, xHaul, Deterministic transport (TSN/DetNet), Slicing, Industrial networking, IPv4 / IPv6, MPLS, Ethernet, FMC Networks, Metro Solutions, L2 / L3 VPNs, QoS, Multicast, Access technologies. |
