Glenn Parsons
Principal Standardization Advisor, 5G Transport
Ericsson
Ottawa, Canada
Glenn is an internationally known expert in networking, including mobile transport and Ethernet. Over the past number of years, he has held several technical management and editor positions in various standards activities including MEF, IETF, IEEE-SA, and ITU-T. He has also held elected and appointed leadership roles in standardization governance in IEEE-SA and ITU-T. He is currently involved with 5G transport standardization in IEEE-SA and ITU-T and is the chair of IEEE 802.1 working group. In addition to being the founding Editor-in-chief for IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, he was previously a Senior Technical Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine.
He graduated in 1992 with a B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.