Marcos Salvador
Marcos obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2003 at University of Twente, in the Netherlands, and since then works for CPqD, where he is manager of optical communications systems research and technical coordinator of, amongst others, Project GIGA – High speed Experimental Network, a national research project which is now in the beginning of its second 3-year round. Over his six years at CPqD, Marcos coordinated various high-budget R&D projects in optical switching technologies (e.g., optical packet/burst switching, optical control plane) and Ethernet (e.g., traffic engineering, topology discovery), resulting in prizes, products transferred to companies, patents and dozens of papers published in scientific events and periodicals of relevance in the area.
He was vice-general chair of Tridentcom 2005, the first international conference focused on experimental networks, and has served as TPC member and reviewer of various events (e.g., Globecom, WOBS), periodicals (e.g., J-SAC) and book proposals (e.g., Wiley, Kluwer).
Project Giga
Project Giga consists of the development of optical network technologies, applications and telecommunication services associated with IP technology and broadband. It will also permit qualifying Brazilian companies in competitive technology. This project will result in the creation of an experimental network, with transmission capacity of up to Gbps and the generation of products and services in the form of prototypes. The initial topology of the network will include the cities of Campinas, São Paulo, São José dos Campos, Cachoeira Paulista, Rio de Janeiro, Petrópolis and Niterói.
Project Giga will comprise four areas of theme coordination: optical networks, network protocols and services, experimental telecommunications services and scientific services and applications.
Protocols and Network Services
- Network protocols and transport in advanced networks
- Advanced network management
Services and Scientific Applications
- Real-time multimedia applications in advanced networks
- Large scale distributed applications