Michael Mayer

Michael works at the Canadian Research Centre of Huawei Technologies in Ottawa, where he is conducting research on 5G networks. Prior to this, he worked at Ciena, Nortel and Bell-Northern Research. His work in R&D and systems design and development focused on areas such as ASON control plane architecture, OTN, SDH/SONET, Network timing, packet based timing and Optical Burst Switching. He has been involved with North American and ITU-T standards where he has contributed to the development of standards related to Optical Control plane and synchronization. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University (Kingston).