Jaap van Till

Who is Jaap van Till?

Jaap van Till was the Internet Infrastructure professor at the HAN University of Applied Sciences in Arnhem. Before that he was professor for Corporate Networks at the Delft University and visiting prof at the University of Technology Kaunas. He frequently teaches at post-graduate courses and business schools, like the Institut Theseus in Nice and at the University of Amsterdam and Leuven. And he lectured at Master courses in Arnhem, Bandung, Jakarta and Kumasi.

He learned from his projects as a “Network Architect” in the corporate, laboratory and factory networks of Akzo Nobel all over Europe. Later he helped to design large corporate computer networks for businesses, government ministries, the NL NREN SURFnet and the Netherlight lambda fiber optic network. He was one of the three people who launched the idea for an Internet2 testbed project for the Netherlands, now running as the GigaPort Project funded by the NL government.

His work ranges from telecom legislation and government IT policy to Internet and intranet and extranet implementations. In 1988 he was part of the team that wrote the Tele-communication Law that replaced the Telecom Law of 1904. He is chief scientist at Tildro Research B.V. in Rhenen, NL and writes columns and blogs in TelecomMagazine, Netkwesties.nl, and ScienceGuide.nl.