Adrian Farrel is co-chair of the IETF's CCAMP and PCE Working Groups, and spends an increasing amount of his time coordinating the efforts of these groups with the work of the ITU-T.

Building on his 20 years' experience designing and developing portable communications software, Adrian runs a successful consultancy company, Old Dog Consulting, providing advice on implementation, deployment, and standardization of Internet Protocol-based solutions, especially in the arena of MPLS and GMPLS.

He has also co-edited a special edition of the IEEE Communications Magazine on GMPLS. He is the author of The Internet and Its Protocols: A Comparative Approach (Morgan Kaufmann, 2004), and co-author of the forthcoming GMPLS: Architecture and Applications (Morgan Kaufmann).

Adrian is co-chair of the Technical Program Committee of MPLS2005.