Before co-founding PacketExchange Heron was a member of the
global network architecture team at Level(3) communications.
Heron is an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and has contributed
to various RFCs and Internet drafts in the PWE3 and L2VPN working groups??”including
the ???LDP VPLS??? specification for emulating multipoint Ethernet LANs over MPLS.
Michael Howard is Principal Analyst at Infonetics, a market research company that he founded.
With over 35 years of network industry experience, Mr. Howard is recognized worldwide as one of
the industry??™s leading experts in emerging markets, service provider network market trends, and
user buying patterns. After graduating from UC Berkeley with a BS in Mathematics, he worked
on operating systems and programming language compilers for Arpanet, which later became the
Internet. He was the IT Director at Tymshare/Tymnet in the 1970s, where he created network
accounting, and in 1978, he led the First Interstate Bank project that developed the world??™s first
pre-Internet in-home banking system. He founded several data networking research firms in the
1980s and co-founded Infonetics Research in 1990.
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