Speaker: Standards for Integrating Satellite into the 5G Future

Chris Boyd is Senior Director of Vertical Market Solutions at VT iDirect and responsible for driving the overall product and solution strategy across the company’s core vertical markets – maritime, aero, telco/enterprise, IoT and defense. Boyd and his team of subject matter experts (SMEs) work closely with key internal and external stakeholders to carefully assess the requirements for each vertical market to develop compelling and competitive products and solutions to address the business needs of our customers and their end users.

In his prior role at VT iDirect, Boyd served as a Network Solutions Architect in the Applied Research division, focusing on next-gen advanced mobility solutions. This work, leveraging 4G/5G network solutions using 3GPP mobility standards, brings significant expansion of iDirect’s mobility capabilities.

Boyd’s 20+ years of networking experience has focused on the design of high-availability, high-reliability solutions that support global end-to-end IP networking and enable delivery of advanced, mission-critical Telecom services. He is a recognized a recognized SME in the application and implementation of IP-centric, satellite-based advanced technologies for Telecom, Defense, and First Responders markets as well as cellular backhaul over satellite (4G-LTE); and advanced mobility technology solutions.

As a former Network Consulting Engineer for Cisco Systems, Boyd has a broad understanding of industry networking and has extensive experience delivering solutions to meet the rigorous demands mission-critical operations, specializing in satellite communications for homeland security / homeland defense, first responders communications, disaster response communications (satellite, LTE and LMR); and has been a consultant for the rapid deployment of tactical Satcom terminals, teleport operations and services used in disaster communications.

Boyd studied Civil Engineering and Computer Science at Widener University.