Lloyd Wood

doctoral work at Surrey

I'm usually in the United Kingdom, just to the west of London, its capital, where the weather is usually lousy.

Past

Before that, I tried to study my way into the space business by taking one of Surrey's masters degrees in Satellite Communications Engineering, joining what was then the Centre for Satellite Engineering Research. I was lucky enough to spend five months of that masters course in the south of France while working on my masters thesis, learning the rudiments of satellite constellations when I should have been wandering along the Garonne into Toulouse and learning more French instead.

development work at Cisco

After school, moved to London to work at Stockley Park and then Bedfont Lakes for Cisco Systems (here's an article describing working for Cisco). After a couple of years working on development of Cisco's router software, I worked as a space initiatives manager in Cisco's space team. There I was involved in testing the first Cisco router in orbit and taking the Interplanetary Internet into space with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, as my publications indicate. Some of the things I've worked on have received media attention:

CLEO Orbital Internet earns Time Magazine award, Robin Wolstenholme, Surrey Satellite Technology space blog, 14 November 2008.

UK-DMC satellite first to transfer sensor data from space using 'bundle' protocol, University of Surrey press release, 11 September 2008.

US military plans to put Internet router in space, John Blau, IDG News Service, 12 April 2007.

Cisco in space, Phil Hochmuth, Network World, 31 October 2005.

Cisco Systems is at the Forefront of Extending the Internet Into Space, Jenny Carless, Cisco Newsroom story, 30 June 2004.

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