Mr. Paul Nikolich is an advisory member of technical staff responsible for Advanced Technology Development for Racal Datacom. He has over 15 years experience in the communications industry developing technologies, products, and standards. His interests are focused on the development of emerging local loop access technolo-gies such as wireless, high bit rate subscriber lines, and, most recently, CATV modems and their interface to customer premise LANs. He is actively involved in the establishment of LAN data communications standards as the vice-chair of the 802.3 (Ethernet) working group of the IEEE’s Project 802. Mr. Nikolich received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York.