Richard Bennett

Current

Research Fellow at Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

Past

System Architect at Actiontec Electronics
Principal Engineer at Trapeze Networks
Consultant at Intel

Research Engineer at Sharp Labs
Technical Lead at Airgo Networks
Technical Lead at Cisco Systems
Sr. Software Architect at 3Com
Research Engineer at EIT
Senior Consultant at HP
Consultant at Photonics
Sr. Product Manager at GammaLink
Sr. Software Architect at Excelan
Technical Leader at Tandem Computers

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Education

The University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin

Connections

212 connections

Industry

Public Policy

Websites

Broadband Politics

Richard Bennett’s Summary

Network architect, consultant, and speaker working in the field of Internet protocols, advanced home networks, and network-related public policy.

Testified before the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet on Communications Privacy on April 23rd. Later in the day, spoke at the Congressional Internet Caucus "State of the Wireless Net" conference on Wireless Regulations and Innovation (with 3 members of the Obama Transition Team.) Spoke at eComm in March on spectrum policy. Spoke at MAAWG in Feb. on net neutrality.

Guest lectured Prof. Dave Farber's class on Internet Policy at Carnegie-Mellon Oct. 30th, 2008. Spoke at a meeting of European Union MPs and related parties sponsored by IPI in Brussels on Oct 14th, along with Bob Pepper of Cisco and Prof. Martin Cave, and with a similar group in London the following day.

Spoke at Innovation '08 in Santa Clara Thursday, June 12th, and at Supernova 2008 in San Francisco on June 18th. Published an Op-Ed in the San Francisco Chronicle and Washington Times July 9th, and another one in the San Jose Mercury News in March. Regularly appear in The Register.

Gave "expert witness" testimony at the FCC hearing on broadband management in February and at an event sponsored by the ITIF in Washington, DC, on March 12. Spoke at the "Net Neutrality 2008" symposium in San Francisco in Janurary.

Extensive experience in audio/video streaming and data applications for LANs, WLANs, and the Internet. Expertise in video over wireless, voice over IP, and Internet protocols for the present and the future.

Co-leader of the first IEEE 802.3 standard for Ethernet over UTP, co-founder of the Open Token Foundation, creator of the protocol that the IEEE 802.11 wireless MAC is based on, designer of the HP video server API, designer of MBOA's distributed reservation protocol for UWB networks, etc.

Writer of software, patents, white papers, and analyses, and network policy wonk.

Richard Bennett’s Specialties:

System architecture for networked devices. Protocol design, implementation, and verification. Audio/video streaming over wireless networks. Home entertainment systems and devices. Public policy.

Richard Bennett’s Experience

Research Fellow

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

(Public Policy industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)

Develop public policy on Internet, broadband, telecom, and IT.
System Architect

Actiontec Electronics

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

December 2007 — April 2009 (1 year 5 months)

Produce the home router for the Verizon FiOS network.
Principal Engineer

Trapeze Networks

(Public Company; BDC; Wireless industry)

October 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 3 months)

Design, develop, standardize, and patent wireless LAN protocols and features for a leading manufacturer of IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN infrastructure. Special focus on QoS and system architecture.
Consultant

Intel

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

July 2005 — December 2005 (6 months)

Consultant on wireless QoS for Viiv group in Hillsboro.
Research Engineer

Sharp Labs

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

August 2003 — July 2005 (2 years )

Research, standards, and Intellectual Property development for manufacturer of streaming HDTV. Invented Distributed Reservation Protocol for MBOA/UWB network.
Technical Lead

Airgo Networks

(Privately Held; Wireless industry)

October 2001 — August 2002 (11 months)

Defined diagnostics and design verification framework for an 802.11abgn chipset. Contributed to overall system architecture and Access Point design.
Technical Lead

Cisco Systems

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

January 2000 — January 2001 (1 year 1 month)

Developed software for 7500 router Gigabit Ethernet and Sonet port adapters.
Sr. Software Architect

3Com

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

January 1991 — December 1999 (9 years )

Developed Ethernet and Token Ring software for industry leader.
Research Engineer

EIT

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

January 1995 — December 1996 (2 years )

DARPA-funded research on video-conferencing over the Internet.
Senior Consultant

HP

(Public Company; Computer Networking industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )
Consultant

Photonics

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

February 1991 — November 1993 (2 years 10 months)

Invented key aspects of IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol.
Sr. Product Manager

GammaLink

(Telecommunications industry)

November 1989 — August 1990 (10 months)

Briefly Directed product strategy for a manufacturer of networked fax servers and modems.
Sr. Software Architect

Excelan

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

November 1985 — September 1986 (11 months)

Developed ISO/OSI protocols and completed standardization of the twisted-pair Ethernet system I invented at Tandem.
Technical Leader

Tandem Computers

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

February 1983 — November 1985 (2 years 10 months)

Invented twisted-pair cable system for Ethernet.