John has been active in the telecoms industry for far too many years to remember and has worked across the world with several of the prominent “Bitcos” in both consultancy and interim programme management assignments. He is currently a Director at First Mile Networks (FMN) (www.firstmilenetworks.co.uk ).
In partnership with Dr. Chris Lilly, FMN was created as a vehicle to bid for the SEEDA South Coast Superhighway Project but over time, FMN now focus on advisory services/programme management. Our claim to fame, perhaps, is that we assisted Quintain Estates in the creation of a business and implementation plan for their Wembley Wired and Wireless project. In fact, we can lay a claim that this activity led to the first FTTH project in the UK (Velocity1).
FMN are also proud of our work with Innovate UK in developing our “Lightpaths on Demand” thinking. Following this research activity, we subsequently explored the development of our FMN “Fractional Wavelength Switching” concept, but sadly could not convince the investment community to fund the development of a prototype (the telecoms community were fully engaged).
John has written and published for The Institute of Telecommunications Professionals which includes a review of Isenberg’s Stupid Network thinking (see https://bit.ly/36SkoMp ) and also examines the work of John Day on the future of TCP/IP (see https://bit.ly/2WVfcWj ). In our Lightpaths on Demand Study, we introduce the concepts of Wavelength Switching and the Neutral Access Network (see https://bit.ly/2V0XakI ). John’s interests include telecoms history and is constantly questioning as to why we send so many bits over networks – there must be an easier way?