We are pleased to announce Professor Andy Sutton, Principal Network Architect from BT will be presenting at the Towards 5G Mobile Technology – Vision To Reality event. Professor Sutton is a Principal Network Architect within BT Architecture and Technology. He is responsible for RAN architecture evolution and mobile backhaul strategy and architecture. He has over 30 years of experience within the telecommunications industry, mainly in radio access, transmission and transport network strategy, architecture and design. His talk will be about "5G Network Architecture and Design"

 

Prof. Sutton’s research interests include; distributed and centralised RAN architectures and protocols, RAN dimensioning, QoS and mobile backhaul (optical transmission, microwave and millimetre wave radio systems, network architecture and protocols along with synchronisation and time distribution in telecommunications networks).

During his career Prof. Sutton has worked for Mercury Communications Ltd, Orange, H3G, EE and BT.

 

Prof. Sutton is a Visiting Professor at the University of Salford and a research mentor at the 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey. He sits on the industry advisory boards of the EU FP8 H2020 iCirrus project and Tweether project. 

He contributes to International telecommunications standardisation activities and several industry forums.


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