Etuate Cocker

Affiliation:	ICANN Fellowship
Country:	New Zealand
Email:	eduade.2001 [at] gmail.com
LinkedIn:	[Etuate Cocker Etuate Cocker]

Biography

Dr. Etuate Cocker was a PhD student at the University of Auckland. where he was working on solution for improving throughput on high latency satellite connection. He authored and co-authored the following papers as part of his dissertation.

• E. Cocker, U. Speidel, N. Rebenich, S. Neville, A. Gulliver, R. Eimann, K. Nisar, S. Hassan, Z. Azziz, M. Dong, and V. Wong, “Measurement of packet train arrival conditions in high latency networks,” in 9^th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, Tainan, Tainwan, 10-13 December, p. P0190, 2013.
• E. Cocker, F. Ghazzi, U. Speidel, “Measurement of buffer requirement trends for real time traffic over TCP,” in 15^th International Conference on high performance switching and routing, Vancouver, Canada, 1-4 July.
• U. Speidel, E. Cocker, P. Vingelmann, J. Heide, and M. Medard “Can network coding bridge the digital divide in the Pacific?,” in 15^th International Symposium on Network Coding, Sydney, Australia, 24-26 June 2015.
• U. Speidel, L.Qian, E. Cocker, P. Vingelmann, J. Heide, and M. Medard “Can network coding mitigate queue oscillation on narrowband satellite links?,” in 15^th International Conference on Wireless and Satellite Systems, Bradford, Great Britain, 6-7 July 2015.
• E. Cocker, U. Speidel, F.Ghazzi “Quality trend measurement of long-distance VoIP communication via estimated Mean Opinion Score (MOS),” in 10th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS 2015), Singapore, 2-4 December 2015.
• U. Speidel, E. Cocker, M. Medard, J. Heide, P. Vinglemann "Topologies for the Provision of Network-Coded Services via Shared Satellite Channels," in The Ninth International Conference on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications, Vanice, Italy, 23-27 April 2017.

Employment

Etuate is currently a Team Lead at Spark N.Z Ltd where he manages a team of network engineers. His team responses to threats from external malicious activities as well as looking after the interest of a number of clients. His team specialises in routing, switching, firewalls, and wifi networks. He currently hold 19 industry certifications all of which he completed on the first year he started at Spark. Currently he is working towards achieving a number of industry certifications with the hope of bridging the gap between academia and the I.T industry.