Network Strategy Partners, LLC



	Peter Fetterolf, Ph. D.

Peter Fetterolf, Ph. D.,is a leading consultant, successful networking industry entrepreneur and hands-on technologist. He helps market-leading and start-up service providers and vendors determine corporate strategy, define product/service portfolios, and design innovative products and services. Peter also assists enterprises and service providers create, design and implement technology architectures and network strategies aligned with business goals.

Dr. Fetterolf brings a multidisciplinary background in the networking industry to his consulting work with over twenty years experience as a management consultant, entrepreneur, executive manager, and academic. He is experienced in engineering management, product definition, market validation, network design and analysis, and enterprise and service provider network strategy.

Prior to joining Network Strategy Partners, Dr. Fetterolf was Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Ignitus Communications, an optical networking start-up company acquired by Lucent Technologies. At Ignitus he worked on business planning, series A funding, recruiting, product definition, architecture, and engineering management of a multi-service metro access multiplexer. After the acquisition Dr. Fetterolf was VP of Engineering in the Optical Metro group at Lucent.

Peter was Chief Technology Officer at Windspeed Access, a Gigabit wireless networking start-up company where he authored the business plan, contributed to product marketing, customer validation, and hardware and software architecture. Peter also has experience in the storage networking industry. He was Vice President of Engineering at Cereva Networks where he managed software, hardware, SQA, and training for the development of a massively scalable storage networking system.

Peter gained strong experience in Frame Relay, ATM, and IP networking at Cascade Communications where he managed a professional services network design group and later an MPLS software development department for the Cascade Frame Relay and ATM switches. Some of the original concepts for the MPLS architecture were developed by the Cascade engineering group and incorporated in the MPLS framework document.

Prior to Cascade Peter was a management consultant at Arthur D. Little, Inc. where he focused on telecommunications, networking, and information technology. His clients included telecommunications service providers, electric power and gas utilities, Wall Street investment banks, and international PTT’s. Deliverables included strategic plans, market segmentation and definition, network designs, and improvements in operations and support systems and processes.

Peter also has a strong academic background. He was an Assistant Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Boston University where he supervised research and taught graduate classes in network engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S.E.E. and B.A. in History from Tufts University.