Franck Chevalier is a Manager at Analysys Mason, and is part of the Next Generation Networks division.
Franck has 12 years' experience in Telecom, spanning research, pre-sales and consulting. His wide-ranging technical expertise includes broadband (LLU/FTTC/FTTH) and wireless (2G/3G/WIMAX) networks, as well as transport and core networks. He also has extensive knowledge of procurement strategies, business case development and due diligence processes.
Franck has been advising a number of regulators on technical issues. For example, Franck was involved in a number of projects for Ofcom (UK) including delivering high-quality video services online, GPON competition models project and has managed a highly technical report on the capacity of future optical access networks. Franck was also Project Manager of both duct survey projects commissioned by Ofcom, which resulted in Ofcom mandating duct and pole access in the UK. Franck has also been advising a number of operators, on their technical strategy and network cost models. For example, Franck has recently been the project manager consisting in the technical audit of the FTTH architectures proposed by a major Incumbent operator to build a national FTTH network and is currently assisting another incumbent operator in developing a detailed bottom up cost model for the deployment of a national FTTH network.
Franck is a regular speaker at international conferences on the subjects of broadband, backhaul and converged networks.
He joined Analysys Mason in 2003, prior to which he was the design authority for a number of multi-million-pound optical networks in the UK, France, the Middle East and Africa, while working for Nortel Networks.
He graduated from Strathclyde in October 2000 with a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, focusing on ultra-fast routing schemes for all-optical networks.