Fred Goldstein
Fred Goldstein advises public and private sector entities on technical, regulatory and business issues related to the telecommunications, cable, wireless and Internet industries, especially in areas where they overlap. He has provided regulators with expertise on technical convergence issues, such as non-video services provided across cable, and serves as FCC Technical Consultant to the Wireless ISP Association. He has helped numerous CLECs navigate the startup process, helping them deal simultaneously with technical, regulatory and business issues. He assists service providers in network design, business modeling, planning, and technical architecture.
He has frequently been an expert witness in regulatory matters, service quality, E911 failure analysis, and in intercarrier compensation and network interconnection cases. He has reviewed tower application for several governments. He led a feasibility analysis and initial design for a regional fiber network in a largely-unserved rural area. He has worked with enterprise networks on a wide range of matters such as backbone network design, voice systems planning, and traffic engineering.
Prior to joining Interisle, he was principal of Ionary Consulting; earlier, he was employed by Arthur D. Little Inc. in its Communications, Information and Electronics practice, and by TIAX LLC. He was previously with the Network Consulting Practice at BBN Technologies. He was earlier employed by Digital Equipment Corporation as an in-house telecommunications consultant, and as a strategic planner and product manager in its Networks and Communications business. Before that, he was corporate telecommunications manager for Bolt Beranek and Newman, after working for the telecom regulatory consulting firm Economics and Technology Inc.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Skidmore College. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He holds three patents in the area of Asynchronous Transfer Mode technology, including two for methods of congestion control and avoidance, and one for a LAN-oriented ATM switching system. He has been a columnist for TMCnet, a major technology website, focusing on Telecom Policy issues. Books he has written include ISDN In Perspective (1992) and The Great Telecom Meltdown (2005).