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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Regis J. “Bud” Bates has more than 35 years of experience in telecommuni-
cations and management information systems (MIS). He oversees the oper-
ation of TC International Consulting, Inc., a full-service management
consulting organization. He has been involved in the design of major net-
works including local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks
(WANs). His clients span the range of Fortune 100—500 companies. Many of
his projects deal with multiple sites and countries using Frame Relay (FR),
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), and optical architectures. He has also
done a significant amount of work in the wireless communications area.
Bud also develops and conducts various public and in-house seminars
ranging from a managerial overview to very technical instruction on voice,
data, LAN, WAN, and Broadband communications. For the past two years,
he has devoted much of his development and training activities on the con-
vergence of voice and data communications. Included in these developments,
Bud has been training numerous Competitive Local Exchange Carriers
(CLECs) on the integration of voice and data. He has recommended and
implemented several training programs (in-house) using all the technologies
that are converging as a base model. Included in this list are several train-
ing programs that carry the organization’s internal certification. His many
topics include both basic and advanced courseware on voice, data, LAN,
WAN, ATM, Synchronous Optical Network (SONET), T1/T3, Voice over IP
(VoIP), and Voice over Data Protocols (FR, ATM, and so on).
Bud has written numerous books on various technologies, many of which
have been best sellers for McGraw-Hill. Moreover, his Voice and Data Com-
munications Handbook has led McGraw-Hill’s sales for four consecutive
years, with a 4th edition released in mid-2001. His recent publication,
Broadband Telecommunications Handbook (December 1999), has been an
equal best seller. Some of his other titles include Introduction to T1/T3 Net-
working; Disaster Recovery for LANs: A Planning and Action Guide;
Telecommunications Disaster Recovery; Wireless Networked Communica-
tions: Concepts, Systems, and Implementation; Client-Server Internetwork-
ing: A How-to Guide; and Nortel Networks Layer 3 Switching.
Bud also works with venture capitalists for various analyses and studies.
One of his recommendations got the investors to increase the recommended
funding from $100 million to more than $400 million. He has consistently
been on the mark with his projections.