Edgard Vangeel

Cisco Systems - Belgium - Manager Engineering

Edgard Vangeel started work in ETSI back in 1993, when he became a member of the former TC RES and RES 02. Later on he became active in other groups such as RES 9 (EMC) and RES 10 (Hiperlan). In 1999, when TC RES became TC ERM, a new Task Group (TG11) in charge of 2,4 GHz Wireless LANs was created. Edgard was appointed as TG11’s first chairman and he is still chairing this task group now >20 years later. Edgard also became active in TC ERM’s working group Radio Matters (ERM WGRM), and in 2001, ERM WGRM appointed Edgard as the ETSI Liaison Officer to CEPT WGFM. In February 2020, he had represented the entire ETSI community in about 50 meetings of the CEPT WGFM over a period of almost 19 years.

In early 2002, Edgard joined the Technical Committee BRAN. At that time TC BRAN was finalising the initial version of ETSI EN 301 893, the harmonised standard for 5 GHz RLANs. Edgard was able to leverage his knowledge and Cisco’s resources in order to ensure the development of the DFS requirements in order to protect civil and military radars. He served as rapporteur for several work items within TG11, TC BRAN and TC ERM. He became chairman of TC BRAN in 2009 and remained in this position for more than 10 years.