Jon Wakeling

BT Research and Network Strategy - Centre of Excellence Lead | BT

Jon is a Centre of Excellence lead in BT Research and Network Strategy, with responsibility for BT’s Satcoms Research. His primary areas of interest are Terrestrial-Non-Terrestrial Network integration, 5/6G satcoms services, Optical and Quantum satcoms, and High Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS).

Jon has over 40 years’ experience of the satcom industry leading and delivering research on all aspects of satcoms end-to-end system design including propagation analysis, distributed network management, spacecraft proposal evaluation, service characterisation, trials and demonstrations. He also has experience in new concept evaluation, technology strategy analysis, and business case development.

Jon is a previous chair of the FEI (now techUK) Satcoms Committee and the UKspace-techUK Satellite Telecommunications Committee; he is BT’s UKspace Council Member, a current member of the DSIT UKTIN NTN Expert Working Group, and a member of the University of Suffolk’s (UKSA funded) Quantum Optics Discovery Lab Research & Planning Advisory Group.

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