Andrew Malis

Bio

Verizon Communications Andrew G. Malis holds the position of Director, Packet Network Architecture at Verizon Communications. He has been active in wide-area data networking and telecommunications for over 30 years, beginning with the ARPANET, the foundation of today's Internet. He has also held senior engineering positions at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman; Ascom Nexion; Cascade Communications; Ascend Communications; Lucent Technologies; Vivace Networks; and Tellabs. His current responsibilities include Verizon's packet network architecture and evolution, standards participation, and vendor and customer consultation.   He is also a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF’s) Internet Architecture Board (IAB), is on the board and Vice President of the Broadband Forum, until recently was President and Chairman of the Board of the IP/MPLS Forum, served on the board of the IPsphere Forum, has chaired a number of working groups in the IETF and the ATM Forum, and is a veteran participant and award recipient in other standards bodies and industry consortia. He has written, edited, and otherwise contributed to many standards documents in these organizations, including 29 IETF RFCs. He has also served on the technical advisory boards of several privately held high-tech companies, and has chaired and spoken at numerous industry conferences. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Brown University, and his Master of Science degree, also in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, at Harvard University. 

Sessions

• Broadband Forum Update
• Verizon's Carrier Ethernet Requirements
• PBB vs. MPLS-TP: What Makes Sense Where?