Paul Unbehagen is an active member of the IEEE and IETF. He has worked on the design, standardization, implementation, deployment, and support of many modern routing protocols (e.g., MPLS, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, and SPB) Paul is also a co-author of IEEE 802.1aq/Shortest Path Bridging and currently has approximately 24 networking related patents. He has also participated in several IETF WGs to include IS-IS, BGP, L2VPN, and IPVPNs and is currently the editor of the LLDP auto attach IETF draft.

Previously Paul has worked in numerous diverse networking environments to include the US Military, Bloomberg, MCI, and Nortel as well as a few startups. Paul thus has 18 years of deployment, operational, network design and architectural experience in live networks ranging from Government, Enterprise and Carrier environments.