About the Author
Saad Z. Asif has twelve years of experience in evaluating telecommunications standards, state-of- the- art wireless technologies and engineering of fiber optic systems.
He began his career in 1998 as an engineer in Sprint Nextel (formerly Sprint) Transmission Engineering group where he engineered DWDM systems. A year later he moved to the Radio Access Development (RAD) group within Sprint Technology Development (formerly Technology Research & Development), an organization situated in Overland Park, KS, USA. In RAD, he accessed and conducted POC (proof-of-concept) trials on a number of wireless technologies including 3G (CDMA2000), interference cancellation, antenna diversity and smart antennas. He also led a team in conducting POC tests for EV-DO technology and played a major role in designing Sprint’s wireless high speed data strategy.
In 2006 he joined Technology Development (TD) group of Mobilink (an Orascom Telecom Company), Pakistan as a Manager TD. In that role his primary focus was on WiMAX where he led a team to conduct POC tests and fulfill regulatory requirements.
Since 2008 he has worked as a Manager Transmission Strategy in Telenor Pakistan in Islamabad. His current focus is on Gigabit Ethernet radios and Carrier Ethernet technologies and providing long-term strategy (direction) for the transmission network. He also led a team to launch the first Village Connection system in Pakistan. He also actively contributes to Telenor Group’s CONTEST (Common ...
