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Mark Grayson

Cisco Fellow

Cisco’s Emerging Technologies & Innovation Group

Mark Grayson is a Distinguished Consulting Engineer in Cisco’s ETI Group, where he currently has broad responsibility for leading Cisco's 5G strategy, including defining the role of Wi-Fi based access, leading Cisco’s multi-vendor RAN virtualization program as well as supporting Cisco’s enterprise team defining systems for supporting 5G enterprise use cases.

He has over 25 years of experience in the wireless industry, ranging from the development of military HF systems, cellular handset RF/DSP design, the definition of mobile satellite communication architectures, architecting service provider Wi-Fi solutions, the evolution of traditional cellular systems through to the creation of the latest virtualized RAN solutions.

He holds a first class Honors degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Birmingham (England) together with a PhD in Radio Communications. Mark has been granted over 120 patents in the area of mobile communications and is the co-author of IP Design for Mobile Networks (2009) and Building the Mobile Internet (2011), both published by Cisco Press.

Articles

July 6, 2016

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RAN Virtualization: On the Road to 5G

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This week we saw an important milestone in the digital transformation of the Radio Access Network (RAN) with the publication of the Small Cell Forum’s nFAPI specification. Cisco has been instrumental in driving the small cell industry by championing the virtualization work stream within the Small Cell Forum that resulted in the nFAPI specification. nFAPI […]

March 30, 2015

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Click to Deploy Virtual HetNet Cuts Small Cell Deployment Time from Months to Minutes

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There was significant Small Cells buzz during last months Mobile World Congress, where Cisco announced a range of innovative products and solutions that can be used to accelerate the market...

January 17, 2014

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Are Small Cells and Wi-Fi Networks Complimentary or Competitive?

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As an industry, we are starting to see a convergence of small cells and Wi-Fi to help solve coverage, capacity, and spectrum issues in our increasingly connected, mobile-dominated world. Today...

May 20, 2013

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Bringing Licensed and Unlicensed Small Cells Together

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The mobile market will be vastly different 10 years from today. We will see two and a half billion more people connected to the internet, but also 50 billion more...

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