Ricard Vilalta

ETSI TeraFlowSDN (TFS) Chair
CTTC

Ricard is a senior researcher in the Optical Networks and Systems Department at CTTC. He is an active contributor in several standardization bodies such as ONF (OTCC), ETSI (NFV, ZSM), and IETF (CCAMP, TEAS). He is also a member of the technical steering team of Open Transport Configuration & Control in ONF. He is leading open source contributions and features in ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM) with special focus on 5G technologies. He has been involved in several international, EU, national and industrial research projects. He lead 5GTANGO impact activities (WP leader), INSPIRE‐5Gplus experimental activities (WP leader), and participated in several 5GPPP WG. Letelly, he is the Project Coordinator of 5GPPP TeraFlow project