WATERLOO, ON – Sandvine CTO Don Bowman is one of seven industry thought leaders that have been invited to participate in the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Roundtable on the Technological Aspects of an Open Internet this week.
The roundtable will consider the technical aspects of open Internet scope, transparency, blocking, mobile networks, and reasonable network management. It will take place this Friday at 1:30 PM ET in Washington, DC and will be streamed live here.
Both Sandvine and Bowman, (pictured), have actively contributed to global initiatives aimed at helping to define and promote an open Internet, including those initiated by the FCC, the CRTC, the European Commission, and the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications. In July 2014, Sandvine submitted comments to the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, in the matter of protecting and promoting the open Internet, and Bowman has also consulted with operators globally on open-Internet-friendly approaches to managing network traffic and launching innovative service tiers.
In addition, Bowman holds several U.S. patents, including one entitled Systems and Methods for Traffic Management. He was a participant in the development of IETF standard on Congestion Exposure (RFC 6789) and is currently involved in the draft of an IETF document that describes an architecture for the specification, creation and maintenance of Service Function Chains in a network – a concept critical to Software Defined Networks.
