Walt Magnussen

Walt Magnussen, Ph.D. has his Bachelors and Masters Degrees from the University of Minnesota and his Doctorate from Texas A&M University. He is the Director for Telecommunications at Texas A&M, Associate Director of the Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technology, an Adjunct Faculty Member at Texas A&M University and the University of Texas, as well as Co-Director for the Texas A&M VoIP Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC). Walt is the Co-Chair of Internet2’s VoIP Special Interest Group (SIG) and IPTV SIG, President of the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA), a member of the State of Texas Telecommunications Planning Oversight Council (TPOC) and a Board member for the SIP Foundry, an Open Source SIP Organization.


He has assisted with engineering the Trans Texas Video Network, one of the largest Distance Education Networks in the World, the Lone Star Education and Research Network (LEARN) a Texas regional optical network and served as a consultant to distance education projects in over 30 countries. Most recently he assumed a partnership role on the United States Department of Transportation grant to demonstrate a Next Generation 911 VoIP based Emergency Call Center.