Etuate Cocker

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

Biography

Dr. ‘Etuate Cocker is originally from Tonga and was awarded the first PhD in Computer Science for the Kingdom of Tonga. While doing extensive research in the Pacific, he was awarded two grants (ISIF and Internet NZ grants) and have attended a number of International and regional conferences. The results from his doctoral research have contributed to the development of Internet connectivity in the Pacific region. He has contributed to policy discussions in a number of ICANN meetings and he is passionate about improving connectivity for remote islands in the Pacific. His professional experience includes positions as an Instructor in many Cisco academies, Network Engineer, Technical Specialist, Researcher, and now a Team Leader for a team of Network Engineers at the largest Internet Service Provider in New Zealand - Spark NZ Ltd. Etuate has authored/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.

ICANN Meetings

Etuate's interest on ICANN started at the time he was a first year student at the University of Auckland. To date, he has attended the following ICANN meetings.

1. ICANN 47 - Durban, South Africa
2. ICANN 52 - Singapore
3. ICANN 53 - Argentina
4. ICANN 59 - Johannesburg, South Africa

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.