Rainer Strobel works for Concept Engineering at Intel, former Lantiq, since 2011. He received his Dipl.-Ing.(FH) degree from University of Applied Sciences Augsburg in 2009 and his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Technische Univsersität München (TUM) in 2011. He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree at Intel in cooperation with the Associate Institute for Signal Processing, TUM. His research interests include optimization of wired MIMO communication systems, copper-fiber hybrid networks and wireline channel modeling.

Bill Bittancourt is a Senior Product Line Manager at Calix with responsibility for copper based Access technologies for FTTN, FTTB, and FTTdp solutions. These products include G.fast and VDSL2/ ADSL2+ solutions for sealed/hardened, fixed form factor, and chassis based solutions.   Bill has contributed to the Calix submissions to the WT-301 G.fast standard and has written VDSL2 Vectoring best practice documents (“Vectoring to Win”) as well as worked on cabinet and cabinet retrofit OSP solutions. Prior to joining Calix, he has held strategic product line development and marketing roles for L2/L3 router and remote access server products, proprietary embedded communications solutions, and mainframe computer products at other companies.

Graduated in Telecom Engineering from Ghent University, Jonas started his career as a consultant and gateway test engineer. After 3 years Jonas started working as a developer and FTTx consultant for Comsof where he is part of the team that works on the FiberPlanIT software.   As an FTTx consultant, Jonas worked on strategic cost estimations for large scale FTTx roll-outs, calculating the costs and identifying cost saving opportunities. He also trained customers on how to improve their design model and use the FiberPlanIT software.   Currently he is involved in Marketing and Partner management for FiberPlanIT. Identifying opportunities for strategic partnerships around the world to grow FiberPlanIT user community.

Chano Gómez is Senior Director of G.hn Marketing at MaxLinear. Previously, Mr Gómez was Senior Director of the Broadband Solutions Group at Marvell Semiconductor (Santa Clara, CA, USA), where he managed product marketing for wireline broadband access and home networking solutions for the carrier market, including both optical and copper-based technologies.   Prior to joining Marvell in 2012, Mr Gómez worked as Director of Business Development at Lantiq North America, a provider of broadband access and home networking semiconductors. Since 2008, Mr Gómez has been actively involved in the development of broadband, IoT and home networking standards at organizations such as ITU-T, IEEE, HomeGrid Forum and Broadband Forum.   Chano has a Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain).

Arkadiy Peker is a Chief Architect Engineer of Microsemi Corporation and responsible for system architecture of Power Ethernet Business unit.   He received his MS from Polytechnic University of New York and has more than 30 years’ experience in the field of power electronics, power management, LED color management and control systems. He holds more than 30 US and international patents is an author of many publications.   Currently he is responsible for the RPF system architecture for PSE and DPU and represents Microsemi in BBF and ETSI standardization organizations working on standards related to RPF.

Chris Mulley is a Principal Architect within ZTE Corporation’s Marketing and Solutions department. Chris is responsible for the analysis of market and business drivers that feed into the development of cost effective end-to-end solutions, targeted at major global telecom operators, based on ZTE’s portfolio of fixed-line solutions.   A key part of this role involves informing ZTE Corporation’s strategic approach to the provision of solutions that meet the objectives of the European Commission Digital Agenda for Europe policy initiative for the wide scale adoption of broadband networks and service. Chris has also been involved in a number of fixed access deployment projects implemented by ZTE.   Prior to working for ZTE Corporation, Chris has worked for a number telecom equipment vendors in product development and management roles. In additon, Chris spent 3 years with the UK telecom regulatory authority, Ofcom, where he gained experience in the development of economic regulation and government policy and played a major role in the development of regulation relating to Next Generation Access networks in the UK.