Rafael Canto Palancar

Transport & IP Network Manager at Telefonica

Rafael Cantó Palancar received is Msc. in Telecommunication Engineering from Universidad Politécnica of Madrid.

He joined Telefonica I+D in 1998, where he worked in Radio Access, and led Optical Networks and Fixed Access Groups.

From 2013, he has been involved in several roles related with IP & Transport Technologies. Currently, he leads technological exploration activities in Transport & IP at Telefonica CTIO including those related to open and disaggregated transport architectures, and he is member of the Technical Committee at Telecom Infra Project.