DSL Forum Birds of a Feather Session

Richard Goodson, ADTRAN
Richard Goodson graduated with a BSEE from the University of Alabama in 1982 and with a MSEE from the University of Florida in 1986. In 1982 he joined Harris Corporation, where he worked in the field of anti-jam and low probability of intercept military communications. In 1989 he joined Motorola, working primarily on the design and standardization of V.34 and other voice-band modems. Since 1995 he has worked for Adtran, where his work has primarily involved system analysis and standardization of xDSL products, and more recently G-PON products. He holds a number of patents in both the voice-band modem and xDSL fields. Richard is currently active in FSAN, ITU-T SG15/Q2, and DSL Forum A&T, and is chairman of ATIS NIPP-OAN. Richard has been married for 25 years, and has 3 children.

Gavin Young, C&W Access
Gavin Young was a founding director of the DSL Forum and served on the board of the Forum for six years. Gavin has previously led the Network Migration and VDSL working groups within the Forum and is currently overall technical chairman of the DSL Forum.

Gavin is originally from the Isle of Wight. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University College of Swansea, Wales, in 1985, and the M.Sc. degree in Communications Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University in 1986.

From 1986-2000 he worked at BT, first in the Laboratories then named Technical Area Leader for BT's Copper Access team covering all DSL technologies before taking over leadership of a new Access Architecture & Design team within BT. This team covered IP and ATM aspects of access systems (copper, radio & fibre) together with local loop unbundling issues.

Gavin joined AdEvia in 2000, and subsequently was promoted to CTO where he led the design of pan-European broadband networks. He then moved to Bulldog Communications (now acquired by Cable & Wireless) where he has held a variety of responsibilities from heading product development through to network operations and CTO. Gavin is currently heading the engineering team focusing on the design and architecture of the national broadband network and associated network products.