Arnaud Cauvin is the Mobile Backhaul Refresh Program Manager at the Network Architecture & Design strategy division of France Telecom - Orange Group. Since Mid-2007, he has been also leading the “Optimised Backhaul” project within NGMN initiative, working with other major operators on providing a coherent vision for backhaul evolution beyond HSPA. He was previously involved in research activities about Optical Access Networks at Orange Labs and was chairman of the GPON "Common Technical Specification" Working Group at the FSAN forum in 2005-2006. Arnaud Cauvin graduated from the ENST Bretagne, France, in 2002.