Phil Edholm is the Chief Technologist and Vice President of Network Architecture for Nortel Enterprise Solutions. Prior to Nortel, Phil had 9 years with Sytek/Hughes LAN Systems and 4 years with Silicon Valley start-ups. Phil was a member of the IEEE 802.3 standards committee during the definition of broadband Ethernet and 10BaseT, developed the first multi-protocol network interfaces, and was a founder of the Frame Relay Forum.

He's been a featured speaker at many international conferences and is recognized as a visionary and leader of the convergence transformation. Phil has been in the VoiceCon Great Debate three times and is recognized by the IEEE as the originator of Edholm's Law of Bandwidth as published in July 2003 IEEE Spectrum magazine. [Edholm, Phil [SC100:4154:EXCH]] He has been recognized by Frost and Sullivan for Lifetime Achievement in Growth and Innovations in the Telecommunications Industry. Phil has 9 patents with 15 patent applications pending.