Mark Grayson is currently a Cisco Fellow and previously was a Distinguished Consulting Engineer in Cisco’s ETI Group, where he had broad responsibility for leading Cisco's 5G strategy, including defining the role of Wi-Fi based access, leading Cisco’s multi-vendor RAN virtualization program as well as supporting Cisco’s enterprise team defining systems for supporting 5G enterprise use cases.
He has over 25 years of experience in the wireless industry, ranging from the development of military HF systems, cellular handset RF/DSP design, the definition of mobile satellite communication architectures, architecting service provider Wi-Fi solutions, the evolution of traditional cellular systems through to the creation of the latest virtualized RAN solutions.
He holds a first class Honors degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Birmingham (England) together with a PhD in Radio Communications. Mark has been granted over 120 patents in the area of mobile communications and is the co-author of IP Design for Mobile Networks (2009) and Building the Mobile Internet (2011), both published by Cisco Press.
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