Wide Area Wireless Ethernet: Providing Ethernet based services over Mobile WiMAX - Architecture, Interfaces, Applications Max Riegel – Director of WiMax Standarisation Nokia Siemens Networks Abstract Wide Area Wireless Ethernet: Providing Ethernet based services over Mobile WiMAX - Architecture, Interfaces, Applications Aside of providing IP-based services as in today's mobile networks, Mobile WiMAX can also be used for transparent end-to-end transport of Ethernet frames to realize e.g. transparent LAN services as defined by the Metro Ethernet Forum or wireless subscriber lines connected to a DSL aggregation network. The speech provides an overview about the wireless and mobile use cases of end-to-end Ethernet transport, introduces the related network architectures and the necessary functions and interfaces and explains the extensions of the Mobile WiMAX network architecture to support Ethernet based services. Special emphasis is put on the challenges of introducing mobility for Ethernet. Biography Max Riegel is the head of the WiMAX&IEEE standardization of Nokia Siemens Networks. He is engaged in the WiMAX Forum as one of the co-chairs of the Networking Working Group and participates in the 16ng working group of the IETF as technical advisor and contributor. He has more than 20 years experience in the telecommunication industry and more than 10 years of professional experience in technical and operational issues of the Internet. After more than 10 years in different management positions in product development in several companies, he joined Siemens in 1998 and took over the management of the IETF standardization. Participating in the IEEE802 standardization from 2000, he has become one of the most experienced experts in Mobile WiMAX with continuous involvement in the radio and network standardization from its very beginning. Max has a Dipl-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Munich, Germany.