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Marco Carugi works as independent consultant on advanced telecommunication technologies and associated standardization, representing ITU-T members in ITU-T activities (requirements and architectures for advanced services and networks).
Marco began his career in Solvay as telecommunication system engineer, worked for 7 years in France Telecom/Orange Labs as research engineer on Broadband Data Services and Network Technologies and then for 8 years in Nortel CTO organization as Senior Advisor on NGN and emerging services. More recently, he has worked for 3 years in ZTE R&D division, Technology Strategy department, as Senior Expert on future service and network technologies and associated standardization.
Marco participates actively since 1998 in several standard development organizations, and has held numerous leadership positions, including ITU-T SG13 vice-chair, ITU-T Rapporteur in three study periods, ITU-T FG Cloud Computing WG chair, OIF Board member, IETF Provider Provisioned VPN WG co-chair.
Currently, he is Q.2/13 Rapporteur (Requirements for NGN evolution and its capabilities including support of IoT and SDN) inside ITU-T SG13 (Future networks). NGN evolution, SDP, SDN, Cloud Computing and IoT/M2M are technical areas in which he is involved at present.
As Q.2/13 Rapporteur, he participates in ITU-T IoT Global Standards Initiative leading technical specifications on requirements, capabilities and services for IoT/M2M , and has acted as ITU-T FG M2M Service Layer vice-chair.
He regularly represents ITU-T in European Commission’s Internet of Things Research Cluster.
Marco has led the development of numerous standards specifications and published in technical journals and books.
Marco holds an Electronic Engineering degree in Telecommunications from University of Pisa in Italy, a M.S. in Engineering and Management of Telecommunication Networks from National Institute of Telecommunications in France and a Master in International Business Development from ESSEC Business School in Paris.
