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Michael Howard
Co-founder and Principal Analyst
Carrier and Data Center Networks
michael@infonetics.com +1 408.583.3351
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As co-founder of Infonetics Research, Michael Howard has 40 years of communications industry experience, including 20 years in market research. Michael is recognized worldwide as one of the industry’s leading experts in emerging markets, service provider network market trends, and user buying patterns. He currently focuses on IP edge and core routers, carrier Ethernet, IP/MPLS, VPLS, pseudowires, WDM-PON, WDM, ROADM, SONET/SDH optical, 40G–100G, IP NGN, and packet transport from customer CPE through the metro to the core and long haul. He also tracks IP VPN, Ethernet, mobile backhaul, and optical services that service providers offer their customers.
In addition to authoring regular market research reports, Michael is a consultant to startups, service providers, manufacturers, and the investment community, identifying new market opportunities, providing due diligence, and advising on positioning, product development, business plans, and M&A activity.
Michael co-authored the 2008 book Delivering Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN, moderates webinars, chairs conference programs, and speaks at industry events around the world, including the Broadband World Forum in Europe and Asia, NetEvents, Carrier Ethernet World Congress, Telecom India, Next Gen WDM/Optical Conference, and SuperComm. He is frequently quoted in trade and business press such as Business Week, CNN Money, The Daily Deal, Forbes, Fortune, Investor’s Business Daily, Light Reading, NetworkWorld, New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Before founding Infonetics, Michael was an IT Director at Tymshare/Tymnet, where he created network accounting, and led the First Interstate Bank project that developed the world’s first pre-Internet in-home banking system. Prior to that, shortly after receiving a BS in Mathematics from UC Berkeley, Michael worked for Systems Development Corporation on operating systems and programming language compilers for ARPAnet, which later became the Internet.
Besides earning the moniker ‘rock star of telecom market research’ from fans, Michael is also an accomplished abalone diver, chef, and photographer.
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