Philippe Chanclou
Manager, Fixed Access Networks, Orange Labs
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About the Speaker
Philippe Chanclou received the Ph. D. and Habilitation degrees from Rennes University, France in 1999 and 2007 respectively. He joined the R&D facilities of France Telecom in 1996 where he worked on the research of active and passive optical telecommunications functions for access networks. In 2000, he joined the University of ENST-Bretagne (now IMT Atlantique) as a senior lecturer where he was engaged in research on optical switching and optical devices using liquid crystal for telecommunications. During 2001 to 2003, he has participated to the foundation of Optogone Company.
Since 2004, he joined Orange Labs where he was engaged in research on the next generation optical access networks. He is now manager of Fixed Access Networks team. This team is an active about delivery, anticipation, standardization and research concerning FTTx topics for Home (Passive Optical Network), Enterprise (Passive Optical LAN) and Antenna (including the transport of radio access network interfaces “xhaul”: backhaul, fronthaul high layer split and low layer split). He is authors and co-authors of 77 publications in international journals with review process, 280 communications in congress and conferences and 41 patents among which 3 licenses contracts and industrial transfers. Dr. Chanclou is a member of the IEEE. He involves in standardization group for optical access in FSAN and ETSI F5G and transport for Mobile flows at O-RAN WG9.
