Frank Effenberger is an American

electrical engineer Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

. He is currently Vice President and Fellow of Fixed Access Networks at FutureWei Technologies. Effenberger completed his undergraduate studies in 1988 at

Stevens Institute of Technology Stevens Institute of Technology is a private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey. Founded in 1870, it is one of the oldest technological universities in the United States and was the first college in America solely dedicated to mechanical ...

, where he majored in engineering and engineering physics. He completed a master's degree at University of Rochester's Institute of Optics. He earned a PhD from the

University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics The University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics is an academic college of the University of Central Florida located in Orlando, Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States. The dean (education), dean of the college is David J. Haga ...

. His doctoral thesis was titled ''Signal and noise in sprite detectors''. After graduating, he studied

passive optical network A passive optical network (PON) is a fiber-optic telecommunications technology for delivering broadband network access to end-customers. Its architecture implements a point-to-multipoint topology in which a single optical fiber serves multiple en ...

s (PONs) at

Bellcore iconectiv is a supplier of network planning and network management services to telecommunications providers. Known as Bellcore after its establishment in the United States in 1983 as part of the break-up of the Bell System, the company's name ...

. In 2000, he served as director of systems engineering at Quantum Bridge Technologies (later

Motorola Motorola, Inc. () was an American Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the company split into two independent p ...

). He became director of

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at Huawei in 2006. In 2011, Effenberger and colleagues published a paper describing the world's first field trial of XG-PON. Since 2009, Effenberger has served as a rapporteur for Q2/15 (WP1/15) on optical systems for fibre access networks in Study Group 15 on optical transport networks and access network infrastructures of the

International Telecommunication Union The International Telecommunication Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It was established on 17 May 1865 as the International Telegraph Unio ...

. He chairs the

IEEE 802.3 IEEE 802.3 is a working group and a collection standards defining the physical layer and data link layer's media access control (MAC) of wired Ethernet. The standards are produced by the working group of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Eng ...

cp task force. Effenberger was elected as a Fellow of

the Optical Society Optica (formerly known as The Optical Society (OSA) and before that as the Optical Society of America) is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest in optics and photonics. It publishes journals and organizes conference ...

(OSA) in 2015. That year, he was additionally named a Fellow of the

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(IEEE) for ''contributions to passive optical networking standards and technology''. He was also honored by the UCF Alumni Association with their Professional Achievement Award.

References

Living people Stevens Institute of Technology alumni University of Rochester alumni University of Central Florida alumni Fellows of Optica (society) Fellows of the IEEE 21st-century American engineers Year of birth missing (living people) Huawei people American electrical engineers {{US-electrical-engineer-stub