Principal Architect
Cox Communications
Mazen Khaddam is an industry expert in IP network architecture and planning. Mazen has acted as the Principal Architect at Cox Communications for the last 8 years. The Cox IP network infrastructure has grown tremendously during this period and Mazen had the foresight and influence to design the most scalable and resilient network possible. Mazen is always seeking to optimize the network to meet real business needs. None has had a stronger influence on the packet switched network infrastructure than Mazen. He has designed the network architecture for Cox as it relates too:
Scalable OSPF using NSSA
OSPF fast Convergence
BGP-Free Core
Full-Mesh RSVP Based Traffic Engineering
Multicast Architecture with PIM Free Core
Diffserve Architecture
MPLS-based L3 VPN
MPLS-based L2 VPN
VPLS Hierarchical and Flat Designs
The packet network architecture that Mazen has designed has allowed Cox to deliver a multi-service architecture for delivering high-speed Internet, business service VPNs, VoIP, Video over IP, and Call Center VoIP.
Not only does Mazen understand the technologies at the byte level, he understands the overarching macro level of how they integrate into the networked system and the associated collateral impact on neighboring protocols. Mazen is a unique talent and truly a leading technologist and academic in the area of packet networks.
Mazen has more than 15 years of experience in the communication fields and has a masters and bachelor degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida. Mazen also has numerous certifications from Juniper, Cisco Systems, Sum Microsystems, and HP.