Contact Details
Technology and Planning for Transport, IP and Interconnection Networks - Telefónica GCTO
Distrito Telefónica, Edificio Sur 3, Planta 3, 28050 Madrid.
Phone: +34913129085
Brief biography
Víctor López (M.Sc. 2005 - Ph.D. 2009) is a Technology Expert at Systems and Network Global Direction in Telefónica gCTIO. He works on the global IP and transport processes of the Telefonica group. Moreover, he is involved in the research projects as well as in the definition of the Telefonica network guidelines for IP and transport networks. He serves as co-chair at the Open Optical Packet Transport group in the Telecom Infra Project. He started his carrier in Telefónica I+D as a researcher (2004). He moved to Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 2006, where he obtained the Ph.D. He became an Assistant Professor at UAM (2009), working on metro-backbone evolution projects (BONE, MAINS). In 2011, he joined Telefonica I+D as a Technology specialist working on funded research projects from the Telefonica group and the European Commission. He has co-authored more than 200 publications, six patents and contributed to IETF and ONF. Moreover, he is the editor of the book Elastic Optical Networks: Architectures, Technologies, and Control (308 pages, Springer 2016). His research interests include the integration of Internet services over IP/MPLS and optical networks and control plane technologies (PCE, SDN, GMPLS).
