DAVE HOOD is a Senior Systems Engineer at Ericsson AB. He has been involved with passive optical networks since they were first conceived in the 1980s. He is presently active in the FSAN and ITU communities, where, among other responsibilities, he serves as editor of OMCI Recommendation G.988.

ELMAR TROJER is a Senior Systems Engineer at Ericsson AB, where he has developed dynamic line management solutions for ADSL2+ and VDSL2 and prototyped the DSL automatic optimizer that became an Ericsson product. He also prototyped the world's first Gb/s passive optical network system.