Peter Reed
Vice President - Network Architecture

Peter Reed has over 23 years of achievements in the communications industry. As Director of Network Architecture at Yipes, the original metro Ethernet service provider, Peter helped deploy the first metro and national Ethernet networks and defined the first optical Ethernet services. As Director of Network Technology and Engineering at SBC-Long Distance, he negotiated the technical terms of the $600 million SBC/Williams partnership and defined and deployed the telecom systems and services that are the foundation of SBC's global long distance network.

As a member of Pacific Bell's Systems Engineering Group, he successfully petitioned and defined the technical guidelines that the FCC used to create wireless 911 and managed development of a range of enhanced datacom/telecom services. While at SBC's Technology and Research division (TRI), he developed the first trial of wireless Internet access (WAP) over GSM within the USA. At Bell Laboratories, he was a founding member of Bellcore's optical research laboratory and defined the requirements for the world's first DACS 3/1. Peter began his career at the RCA David Sarnoff Labs in Princeton, NJ where he designed the Space Shuttle Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) radio.

An avid gardener, Peter and his wife spend every hour he's not in the lab pampering their antique roses and 1,000 other plants that fill their 1 acre garden in the hills east of San Francisco.