Peering Forum Italiano

Andrea Lasagna - Fastweb

Luca — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:45:08 +0000

Andrea Lasagna is Data & Video Services Manager in Fastweb. He is within Fastweb since 1999 and is committed on IP network development and services for residential and business customers. Before he took part in Vodafone Omitel start-up and worhed 6 years in Digital.

Enrico Mordillo - RAI

Luca — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:55:37 +0000

Enrico Mordillo, RAI Data&Phone Network Director. He works within RAI since 2000, initially managing Network Operations and then in the whole area. Before he worked in Omintel since 1994 to 2000, in the IT network start-up. He had a degree on Informatics at Turin University in 1991. He was born in Naples. Now he lives in Turin where there is RAI network headquarter, but most of his activity is in Rome.

Silvano Gai - Senior Fellow- Nuova Systems

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:07:37 +0000

Silvano Gai, who grew up in a small village near Asti, Italy, has over twenty seven years of experience in computer engineering and computer networks.
He is he author of several books and technical publications on computer networking and has written multiple Internet Drafts and RFCs.
He is responsible for 30 issued patents and 50 patent applications. His background includes seven years as a full professor of Computer Engineering, tenure track, at Politecnico di Torino, Italy and seven years as a researcher at the CNR (Italian National Council for Scientific Research).
For the past eleven years, he has been in Silicon Valley where in the position of Cisco Fellow, he was an architect of the Cisco Catalyst family of network switches and the Cisco MDS family of storage networking switches.
Currently, he is a senior fellow with Nuova Systems where he has been active in defining the new Data Center architecture and in making FCoE a reality.

John Souter, CEO, LINX

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:49:43 +0000

John Souter joined LINX as chief executive in March 2001.
John had a 20 year career with the British Standards Institution, culminating in his directorship of BSI Quality Assurance.
In 1996 he became vice president for systems and operations with Mobile Systems International Plc, whose Planet software product is used in planning GSM and paging networks.
In 1998 he became managing director of AAH Meditel Ltd, which provides clinical record and decision support systems to NHS general practitioners, and in 2000 was appointed as UK managing director of Varetis Communications, which provides Internet, WAP-based and computer systems to telephone companies.
He is co-author of a technical book on Portable Modula-2 Programming and is a member of the editorial board of Software Quality Journal.

Joao Damas

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:25:23 +0000

Joao became involved with the Internet in the early 90s during graduate
studies at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and later as the network engineer in charge of all network services for the University.
From there he worked briefly with the Spanish Academic network and then onto RIPE NCC starting as a network engineer and becoming CTO.
Joao moved to ISC in 2003 where he has been involved in the development of BIND, DHCP, F root anycast and extending ISC’s cooperation with other Internet participants.
He regularly attends and speaks at RIPE, IETF, NANOG, APNIC, LACNIC and is on several working groups within these organisations.

Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist, APNIC

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:14:18 +0000

Geoff Huston has been working in the Internet for ages. He started the
Australian Academic and Research Network back in the 80’s and then worked at Telstra.
He’s been involved in the ISP industry as an operations manager, peering coordinator, network engineer, and architect. He is now APNIC’s Chief Scientist.
He’s been an IETF member since the early 90’s, a member of the Internet Architecture Board, and currently chairs IETF Working Groups on BGP Security and IPv6 multi-homing. He has authored a number of books and writes a monthly column on Internet technology.