Susan Estrada
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| Country: | USA |
| Email: | susan [at] cenic.org |
| LinkedIn: |  [susan-estrada Susan Estrada]
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| Twitter: |  @susan-estrada
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Susan Estrada is an Internet pioneer. Estrada has a deep interest in developing broadband technologies and she works to use those technologies to solve the real world problems.[1]
Career History
She was the founder and president of the nonprofit FirstMile.US. Serving as the President, she lead the charge toward more education, and focus on the power and promise of big broadband in the United States.
She found CERFnet in 1988, it was one of the original regional IP networks. She commercialized internet for user by taking the initial National Science Foundation funding of $2.8M. 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]
She has been a board member at PIR. She also found Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX). She was an appointed member to the FCC's Technological Advisory Committee, an elected trustee of the Internet Society 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 wrote a book title "Connecting to the Internet: An O'Reilly Buyer's Guide", it was a best seller at Barnes and Noble and is listed in the millennium and 1998-1999 editions of Who's Who in Executives and Professionals. [4]