Rob Van Den Brink

Rob F. M. van den Brink received the degree in electronics from the Delft University of Technology in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree in 1994. He is a Senior Scientist with TNO, with a focus on broadband access networks. Since 1996, he has played a very prominent role in DSL standardization in (ETSI, FSAN). He has written over 100 technical contributions to ETSI, and several contributions or ITU and BBF. He took the lead within ETSI-TM6 in identifying/defining cable models, test loops, noise models, performance tests, and spectral management. He is an Editor of an ETSI-TM6 reference document on European cables, and led the creation of the MUSE Test Suite, from 2004 to 2008, a comprehensive document for analyzing access networks as a whole. He also designed solutions for spectral management policies in The Netherlands, and created various DSL tools for performance simulation (SPOCS), cable modeling (TICAM), and noise generation for testing that are currently in the market. He has been Rapporteur/Editor of ETSI since 1999 (on Spectral Management: TR 101 830), a Board Member of the MUSE consortium from 2004 to 2008. Since 2009, he is a Work Package Leader within various projects of the Celtic 4GBB Consortium. This consortium received three awards for the initiation the development and standardization of G.fast.