Fred Baker worked in the telecommunications industry starting in 1978, building statistical multiplexors, terminal servers, bridges, and routers.
At Cisco Systems, his primary interest areas included the improvement of Quality of Service for best effort and real time traffic, the development of routing and addressing, and issues in law enforcement and emergency use of the Internet. In addition to product development, as a Cisco Fellow, he advised senior management of industry directions and appropriate corporate strategies.
His principal standards contributions were to the IETF, for which he served as IETF Chair in from 1996 to 2001. In that forum, he contributed to Network Management, OSPF and Manet Routing, PPP and Frame Relay, the Integrated and Differentiated Services QoS architectures, and RSVP. He served on the IETF's Internet Architecture Board and chairs the Internet Emergency Preparedness Working Group, as well as directly contributing technically.
