Metro-Haul Year 2 Newsletter – A Year in Blogs

Graduated in Mathematics in 1985 from Durham University (UK). He has worked as a software engineer, architect, and development manager in the UK and US producing a range of portable control plane software for communications devices including X.25, SNA, OSI, ATM, MPLS, and GMPLS, and specialised control plane for WDM Add-Drop, OEO, and PXC. Since 2003 he has been consulting on Internet technologies and standardisation, and in 2004 he founded Old Dog Consulting. Along the way, Adrian was founding CTO of Aria Networks, applying Artificial Intelligence and machine learning to network planning and path computation. He has a long history of involvement in standardisation through the ITU-T, IETF, ISO, etc. Within the IETF he was previously co-chair of the CCAMP, PCE, and L1VPN working groups, served six years as one of the IETF’s Routing Area Directors, and is currently co-chair of the L3SM, I2NSF, and L2SM working groups. He is technical adviser to the IETF’s TEAS working group and was previously liaison manager from the IETF to the ITU-T on the optical control plane. He is author of over 70 RFCs and 10 books (including two books of fairy tales).