About the Presenter
Cathy Wittbrodt is a member of the technical staff of Packet Design. Before joining Packet Design she was with Excite@Home, where she was responsible for network routing and IP addressing. Cathy is a member of the ARIN advisory council as well as the Address Supporting Organization (ASO) address council. She has been active in the Internet for 12 years. She began at Merit Network, Inc. where she worked on the NSFNET Backbone. Also while at Merit Cathy built CICNet, a network that connected the Big 10 universities. Following Merit, Cathy designed and implemented OSI/CLNP for the Energy Sciences Network. Although OSI/CLNP was never widely deployed, the experience has given greater insight into addressing and scaling issues. Cathy also spent three years in the engineering group of the Bay Area Regional Research Network, BARRNet, which was bought by BBN Planet. Cathy is on the Board of Directors of Panzer Motorcycle Works, USA, Inc. She has a B.S. in mathematics from Northern Arizona University.