Gregoire Villain

Current

CDN Solutions & Market Manager, Europe at TATA Communications / Teleglobe
Occasional lecturer at ESIGETEL
Network & Telco architecture freelance consultant (Self-employed)

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Past

Network Infrastructure Consultant at Ingenico Transaction Services
Principle network & telco architect at Gateway Gulf LLC
Lead Network Architect at Dailymotion Corp.

Network/Telco Engineer at RTL Group
ISP IP Project Manager (Core & Access) at T-Online France - Club Internet
IP Solution Specialist at COLT Telecom
Methodology - process - organization engineer at COLT Telecom
DSL Presales Engineer Trainee at RCS (TELCOs Business Unit)

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Education

esigetel

Recommended

13 people have recommended Gregoire

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Gregoire Villain’s Summary

Seasoned & experienced Internet/Telco expert, interested in broadening the below list with new experiences:
* Content Network/Core Network Design & Operations
* Transit / Peering strategies & policies - IX operations
* Network suppliers, equipment vendors, distributors, relationship management / rates negotiations
* Network & Telco management/monitoring systems design
* Pre/Post-sales engineering & Product Engineering
* Experience of delivery processes, provisioning systems

Gregoire Villain’s Specialties:

* In-depth knowledge of Telco, Routing, Switching technologies, suppliers & products
* Field experience on Access, Metro, WAN Networks
* Operations experience in ISP, Hosting, Carriers, Infrastructures
* Experienced in working in cross-cultural environments

Gregoire Villain’s Experience

CDN Solutions & Market Manager, Europe

TATA Communications / Teleglobe

(Public Company; TCL; Telecommunications industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

- Product development
- Product related bizdev
- Technical / product evangelism (internal, external)
- Sales support, training
...in other words grease monkey and everybody's best buddy when it comes to chatting about CDN.
Occasional lecturer

ESIGETEL

(Educational Institution; Telecommunications industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Internet 101 for Network and Systems engineering students at ESIGETEL.
Prezo available at: http://esigetel.tadcons.net/internet_101.pdf
Basically a course/conference on what students are not taught about Internet operations.
Network & Telco architecture freelance consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Telecommunications industry)

December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

I take part in various internet/telecommunications/datacenter project all around the globe, thanks to my previous experiences in:
- telco networking
- VPN architecture
- DSL Access engineering
- National ethernet backbone deployment
- Internet Exchange operations leading
- Content Provider Network design and implementation (inc hosting facility)
- Peering relationships management
Network Infrastructure Consultant

Ingenico Transaction Services

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2008 — June 2008 (2 months)

Consultancy on the below items:
- RFP defenses on worlwdide IP Network and Colo (FR, US, AU)
- IP Architecture and design, resiliency study
- Vendors selection
- Equipment suppliers negociations.
Principle network & telco architect

Gateway Gulf LLC

(Telecommunications industry)

December 2007 — April 2008 (5 months)

Multiple engineering and technical advice missions:
- delivery of an Internet eXchange case study
- delivery of an Internet eXchange architecture engineering & design and bill of material document
- adding hosting & collocation features to the architecture document
- obtaining AS number, PI and PA IP ranges as mandatory step for building the IX
- misc technical advices on IP Transit and Peering, and on business strategy
- pre-implementation phase, on site - working lab
- informal training of newly recruited staff
[UPDATE] This work has since been implemented and presented by CITC at Menog 4
Lead Network Architect

Dailymotion Corp.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

October 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 3 months)

Network design & implementation for a massive video/community content provider:
- Datacenter setup
- Transit / Peering negociations
- IP/Eth Core design, implementation, maintenance
- Multi-10G Metro Ethernet Backbone design, implementation, maintenance
Network/Telco Engineer

RTL Group

(Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)

June 2006 — October 2006 (5 months)

Building from scratch fully owned content provider IP core, including Autonomous System and switching fabric for hosting servers.
This includes:
- LAN & CWDM inter-site ethernet architecture
- IGP/BGP design & maintenance
ISP IP Project Manager (Core & Access)

T-Online France - Club Internet

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

June 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 1 month)

- Managing relations & operations with peers for PaNAP, a Free IX in France
- Building a provisionning system for PaNAP, T-Online's free IX in France
- VDSL2 testing on T-Online France's access architecture
- Operating & maintaning 10G Metro Ethernet Rings all over France
- Maintaining an around 320 Lucent Stinger DSLAM park on locations all over France (OS releases, feature implementations, troubleshooting, migrations, roadmaps with vendor)
- Conducting various testing on the French Local Loop
IP Solution Specialist

COLT Telecom

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

May 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 2 months)

- Bringing operationnal & technical clarity in pre-implementation phase for MPLS VPNv4 professionnal services, Ethernet VPN services.
- Managing pan-european consistency accros the above listed portfolio, mixing with local access specificities, and bespoke solutions
- Adapting vertical product catalog to country specific needs, in a post-sales environment
Methodology - process - organization engineer

COLT Telecom

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

August 2001 — May 2004 (2 years 10 months)
DSL Presales Engineer Trainee

RCS (TELCOs Business Unit)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

May 2001 — August 2001 (4 months)

Gregoire Villain’s Education

esigetel

Engineering , Telecommunications & Information Technologies , 1999 — 2001

Additional Information

Gregoire Villain’s Groups:

ESIGETEL, COLT Telecommunications, FrNOG, NANOG

CDN Industry
RIPE community
NANOG - The North American Network Operators' Group
ThoseinMedia
Content Delivery Network Professionals
Tata Communications Ltd
Colocation & Data Center Real Estate
Future of Web Video
CDN Evangelist
The Good COLT crown
ESIGETEL Alumni - Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieur en d'Informatique et Génie des Telecommunications
FRnOG
club-internet
Local Loop Unbundling - LLU
TelcoTV