Gunter Van de Velde is a Senior Network Consulting Engineer in Cisco's Advanced Services Team. He has been the Technical Team Leader for the IP Core delivery team since early 2001.

Gunter received his Master degree in Electronics in 1993. His first professional activities where based on TDMs, modems and L2-bridges.

He joined Cisco in 1997, initially providing reactive worldwide support as part of Cisco's Technical Assistence Center (also known as 'Cisco TAC'), specializing in IP Routing protocol technologies. In 1999 he joined Cisco's Advanced Services organization as a Network Consultant, where he has been active in designing large Backbone ISP networks and Services.

Since 2001 Gunter has been working as Design Architect for the 6NET IPv6 project. Since then Gunter has been involved in optimizing and supporting the 6NET Infrastructure - his latest project on 6NET is to optimize the overall routing convergence on the 6NET European backbone.