Susan Estrada
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| Email: | susan [at] cenic.org |
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Susan Estrada is an Internet pioneer. She has a deep interest in emerging broadband technologies and in efforts to make those technologies work to solve real-world problems.
As president of Aldea Communications since 1993, Estrada and her staff have provided core services for educational initiatives such as CENIC and the National LambdaRail. She provided the vision, managerial savvy and technical know-how to bring CENIC's One Gigabit or Bust Initiative to the fore. By bringing together the interests of research, education, commerce, state and local government, and the general public, Estrada spearheaded an action plan for delivery of one gigabit broadband capabilities to every educational institution, business and home in California by 2010.[1]
Career History
As founder and president of the nonprofit FirstMile.US, Estrada lead the charge toward more education, advocacy and focus on the power and promise of big broadband in the United States.
In 1988, Estrada founded CERFnet, one of the original regional IP networks. As executive director of CERFnet, she took the initial National Science Foundation funding of $2.8M and successfully commercialized the network for both academic and private-sector users, increasing the network from 25 sites to hundreds. Through her leadership and collaboration with PSInet and UUnet (now MCI), she helped form the interconnection enabling the first commercial Internet traffic via the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX).[2]
Estrada has served as a board member for PIR. She was an appointed member to the FCC's Technological Advisory Committee, an elected trustee of the Internet Society, a founder of the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX), and a former area director for the Internet Engineering Software Group (IESG) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). She was an appointed member of SBC/Pacific Telesis' Telecommunications Consumer Advisory Panel and a member of the U.S. Federal Networking Council's Advisory Committee (FNCAC).[3]
Publications
Estrada is the author of Connecting to the Internet: An O'Reilly Buyer's Guide (a Barnes and Noble best seller) and is listed in the millennium and 1998-1999 editions of Who's Who in Executives and Professionals. [4]