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ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, Volume 2 (2021), Issue 1

Hesham ElBakoury is a thirty
ive year veteran in the telecom‑
munications and data network‑
ing industry with an extensive
background and expertise in the
architecture, design, and devel‑
opment of Distributed Systems
and Broadband Access, Enter‑
prise and Telco Communications Systems. He was a Prin‑
cipal Architect in Futurewei focusing on advanced tech‑
nology research and standards in the network research
Lab. Prior to joining Futurewei, Mr. ElBakoury was Chief
Systems Architect in Hitachi‑CTA EPON Access Systems
Division, and Chief Systems Architect in Nortel and Bell‑
Northern Research where he led the architecture, de‑
sign, and development of several very successful Switch‑
ing/Routing, Security and Carrier Ethernet products. In
Nortel/BNR, Mr. ElBakoury initiated and led the Auto‑
nomic Network research project in the Enterprise divi‑
sion, and the Software Design and Code Reuse Project
in the Data Networking division. Mr. ElBakoury has
been active in different standard groups, including IEEE
802, IEEE 1904, IETF, ONF, OIF, MEF, the SCTE Energy
2020 program, and CableLabs where he has been heavily
involved in IEEE 802.3/802.1, DPoE/DPoG, DOCSIS 3.1,
Full‑Duplex DOCSIS 3.1, SDN/NFV, Distributed CCAP Ar‑
chitectures, and Business Services projects. He holds an
M.S.C. degree from Waterloo University, ONT, Canada.

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