Regis J. (Bud) Bates
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Technical editor biography
Tom Ring is currently employed by IQ Services, a Minneapolis-based company that provides performance load testing and availability monitoring services for Fortune 500 contact centers. He holds a dual position at the firm, serving both as the Lead Sales Engineer and as its Security Manager.
Mr. Ring has been employed in the telecommunications industry for over 30 years. His positions have included: Senior Systems Administrator at Pixius Communications, Support Engineer at Harmonic Systems, Level 3 Engineer/Programmer at Norstan Communications, Field Support Engineer at Ericsson Development, and National MD110 Field Engineer for Honeywell Communications Services Division.
While he rarely takes his Engineers cap off, Ring enjoys amateur radio and autocross in his spare time. His favorite passion is maintaining his 1985 VW Westfalia Camper.
Favorite flavor capsaicin.
About the author
Regis J. Bud Bates has more than 48 years of experience in telecommunications and information services and has long been considered a technology Guru. He currently contributes to these fields as an author, consultant, expert witness, speaker, course developer, and teacher. He has written numerous books on the technologies.
With clients spanning the range of Fortune 100500 companies, Mr. Bates has been involved in the design of major voice and data networks. His innovative ideas in implementation have been written up in trade journals and magazines. Many of his projects deal with multiple sites and countries using various architectures. A significant amount of Mr. Bates work has also been in the wireless communications area. In his work with venture capitalists, he has consistently been on the mark with his projections for various analyses and studies.
Mr. Bates is known for his dynamic keynote speaking. With a style that is power-packed and a delivery that is exciting, he knows how to captivate, engage, and motivate his audience. He motivates the sales force, customers, management team, and capital investors trying to figure out where the technology is heading for the future and where to invest. Regis Bates also develops and conducts various public and in-house seminars ranging from a managerial overview to very technical hands-on classes on Voice over IP, VoIP security, Wi-Fi networking, WIMAX networking, MPLS, DWDM, and IPv6. In the recent past he has focused much of his development and training activities on the convergence of three key areas: VoIP, security, and Wi-Fi.
He developed much on the wireless curriculum including Wi-Fi mesh, RF design, and Wi-Fi hands-on classes. He is very familiar with the Cisco routing and switching products, security products, and wireless products. He has served as an SME for many other training and development projects in the past.
As an independent consultant, Mr. Bates regularly lends his expertise to third-party assessment companies in the analysis, review, and recommendation of technology patents. In particular, Mr. Bates has assessed several portfolios from several large telecommunications and information system vendors, rank ordered the patents and technologies on a technical superiority basis, and monetized many of the portfolios so that his clients could acquire a reasonable portfolio for a reasonable price.
Expertise
Convergence technologies
LAN, WAN, Ethernet, MPLS, ATM, frame relay, switching and routing
Optical networks
CATV networks
TCP/IP
Telephone equipment or operations
Voice over the Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Voice over Wi-Fi
Wireless networks and technologies (cellular, GSM, CDMA/WCDMA, 3/4G GPRS, and SMS/IMS/MMS)
Wired networks (PBX, voice, data, VoIP, 800 services)
Disaster recovery/business continuity planning
Publications
Bates books and seminars have been used by more than 166 colleges and universities around the globe, and Mr. Bates teaches many communications/computer courses and seminars in over a dozen countries globally.
Books
1. Principles of Voice and Data. McGraw-Hill Educational Group, 2006
2. Voice and Data Communications Handbook, fifth ed. McGraw-Hill, 2006
3. Co-author on Wireless Networks Dictionary. Althos Publishing, 2006
4. cdmaOne and cdma2000. McGraw-Hill, 2003
