Program Participant

Charles (Chuck) DeRoller leads international sales and marketing activities for REDCOM Laboratories, Inc. For more than a decade Chuck has assisted international governments and carriers with realistic transition to packet-based solutions with a focus on network resilience and disaster recovery. His paper Economics of Next Generation Networks: Preventing a National Economic Catastrophe published in PTC ’11 Proceedings correctly predicted significant national communications outages due to deficient network design and immature regulatory conditions.   

Chuck is champion of distributed networks and is critical of the trend toward centralization and consolidation. He holds a BS degree in Computer Science, a Certificate in International Business, and a Masters in Business Administration. In his free time Chuck studies malicious attacks and single-point-of-failure catastrophes in critical core networks.