Adrian Farrel

Adrian Farrel is a British engineer and author, specialising in developing computer network protocols for the Internet. He is active in the Internet Engineering Task Force.

He was a founder of Aria Networks Ltd, who manufacture sophisticated, next-generation network modelling, path computation, and optimisation tools for MPLS, GMPLS, and IP networks, and served as their Chief Technology Officer for two years. He also runs a consulting company specialising in MPLS and GMPLS. Previously he was an MPLS architect and development manager at software house Data Connection Ltd., and director of protocol development for Movaz Networks Inc. He also co-authored a research paper.

Biography

He co-edited a special edition of the IEEE Communications Magazine on GMPLS and is the author of a number of books.

From 2008 to 2011 Adrian served as a Trustee and member of the Standing Board of the Llangollen International Eisteddfod

Farrel was on the Technical Program Committee for the 15th Annual Conference MPLS in 2012 and again in 2014 as one of two Routing Area Directors in the Internet Engineering Task Force.

Other activities

Adrian Farrel is a member of the Pirate Party UK, and since 4 July 2015 has been an elected Governor of the party. On 14 December 2016 he was appointed Chair of the Board of Governors, a position he held until the party was disbanded at the end of 2020.

Adrian has also authored four volumes of fairy tales. He blogs about fairy tales and fairy stories.

Books

Tales from the Castle (FeedARead, 2019), Tales from Beyond the Wood (FeedARead, 2017), More Tales from the Wood (FeedARead, 2016), Tales from the Wood (FeedARead, 2015), Wireless Networking Complete (with multiple authors, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Burlington: 2009), Network Management: Know It All (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Burlington: 2008), Network Quality of Service: Know It All (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Burlington: 2008), MPLS: Next Steps (with Bruce S. Davie, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Burlington: 2008), GMPLS: Architecture and Applications (with Igor Bryskin, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Burlington: 2005), The Internet and Its Protocols: A Comparative Approach (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Burlington: 2004),