Adrian Farrel

Adrian Farrel is a co-chair of three IETF working groups, namely "CCAMP",IETF's Working Group, [http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ccamp-charter.html "Common Control and Measurement Plane (ccamp)"] ] "PCE"IETF's Working Group, [http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/pce-charter.html "Path Computation Element (pce)"] ] and "L1VPN", IETF's Working Group [http://www3.ietf.org/html.charters/l1vpn-charter.html Layer 1 Virtual Private Networks (l1vpn)] ] which are responsible for developing GMPLS and MPLS related standards. He has also co-edited a special edition of the IEEE Communications Magazine on GMPLS and is the author of a number of books. [ [http://www.amazon.com/s/?search-alias=stripbooks&field-author=Adrian%20Farrel Amazon index for Adrian Farrel] ] He is a founder of Aria Networks Ltd., [ [http://aria-networks.com Aria Networks] ] who manufacture sophisticated, next-generation network modeling, path computation, and optimization tools for MPLS, GMPLS, and IP networks, and served as their Chief Technology Officer for two years. He also runs a consulting company specializing in MPLS and GMPLS. [ [http://www.olddog.co.uk/ Old Dog Consulting] ] "Previously he was MPLS architect and development manager at software house Data Connection Ltd., and director of protocol development for Movaz Networks Inc". [http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/public/2005/jul/ciguest_morrow.html IEEE Communiction Magazine July 2005 Vol.43 No.7] ] He is also author of many RFCs, Internet drafts and research papers.

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