Frank Effenberger

Summary

Frank Effenberger is an American electrical engineer. He is currently Vice President and Fellow of Fixed Access Networks at FutureWei Technologies.[1]

Frank J. Effenberger
CitizenshipUSA
Alma mater
Known forXG-PON
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsFutureWei Technologies
ThesisSignal and noise in sprite detectors (1995)
Doctoral advisorGlenn Boreman (Q102036180)

Effenberger completed his undergraduate studies in 1988 at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he majored in engineering and engineering physics. He completed a master's degree at University of Rochester's Institute of Optics.[2] He earned a PhD from the University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics. His doctoral thesis was titled Signal and noise in sprite detectors.[3] After graduating, he studied passive optical networks (PONs) at Bellcore. In 2000, he served as director of systems engineering at Quantum Bridge Technologies (later Motorola).[1] He became director of FTTX at Huawei in 2006.[4] In 2011, Effenberger and colleagues published a paper describing the world's first field trial of XG-PON.[5]

Since 2009, Effenberger has served as a rapporteur for Q2/15 (WP1/15) on optical systems for fibre access networks in Study Group 15 on optical transport networks and access network infrastructures of the International Telecommunication Union.[6][7][8] He chairs the IEEE 802.3cp task force.[1]

Effenberger was elected as a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) in 2015.[9] That year, he was additionally named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)[10] for contributions to passive optical networking standards and technology. He was also honored by the UCF Alumni Association with their Professional Achievement Award.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Frank J. Effenberger". IEEE. 1 November 2019. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  2. ^ a b "Alumnus Frank J. Effenberger from Futurewei Technologies receives Professional Achievement Award at UCF Black & Gold Gala". CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics. Nov 12, 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  3. ^ Effenberger, Frank (1995). Signal and noise in sprite detectors (Thesis). University of Central Florida. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  4. ^ "Toward 100Gbps PON". IEEE Globecome 2016. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  5. ^ Jain, S; Effenberger, FJ; Szabo, A; Feng, Z; Forcucci, A; Guo, W; Luo, Y; Mapes, R; Zhang, Y; O'Byrne, V (2011). "World's First XG-PON Field Trial". Journal of Lightwave Technology. 29 (4): 524–528. Bibcode:2011JLwT...29..524J. doi:10.1109/JLT.2010.2104313. S2CID 62794662.
  6. ^ "List of Rapporteurs (Study Period 2009-2012)". ITU-T. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  7. ^ "List of Rapporteurs, 2013-2016". ITU-T. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  8. ^ "List of Rapporteurs, 2017-2020". ITU-T. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  9. ^ "76 OSA Members Elected as Newest Class of Fellows". OSA News Releases. Dec 4, 2014. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  10. ^ "2015 elevated fellows" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory.