SAE and the Evolved Packet Core: Driving the Mobile Broadband Revolution

Catherine Mulligan is the Transitional Research Fellow in Innovation Studies at Horizon Digital Economy Research at the University of Nottingham. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge, and an MPhil in Engineering, also from the University of Cambridge. She received first class honours for her BSc. (Business Information Technology) from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Prior to her current post, Catherine worked for 15 years in the IT and telecommunications industries, including 10 years at Ericsson contributing extensively to the IMS - in particular representing Ericsson within several standardization forums. She holds various patents in core network areas. Catherine is also the co-author of several books, including "SAE and the Evolved Packet Core: Driving the Mobile Broadband Revolution" (Elsevier, 2009) and the sole author of "The Communications Industries in the Era of Convergence" (Routledge, 2011), which investigates the economic and technical factors driving the communication industries.