Frank is Distinguished Engineer in Cisco’s Emerging Technologies and Incubation group, driving software and architecture development for Edge platforms, solutions, associated services and applications. He is involved in several open source projects and is a Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) board member. Frank is an active IETF member. There his focus is the standardization of observability/OAM solutions (IOAM). Frank is a frequent speaker at conferences and events, including CiscoLive, where he is recognized as a “CiscoLive Hall-of-Fame Elite”, highest speaker rank. Frank holds a diploma degree in Electrical Engineering (Aachen University) and a PhD/Dr degree in Information Science (University of Cologne).