Malte Schneiders works for Deutsche Telekom Group in Darmstadt, Germany. Malte has more than eight years experience in the area of Optical Transport. He received his Diploma degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Dortmund in 2001. Afterwards, Malte joined Deutsche Telekom Group’s Research Centre as Professional Research & Development Engineer and Project Leader in the department for “Photonic Networks and Network Infrastructures”. His work focussed on network concepts and high-speed WDM-systems. Joining the “Optical Packet Transport” group of Deutsche Telekom’s Technology Engineering Centre in 2008, Malte is engaged in the technology introduction process for the optical transport network, strategic projects and research activities as well. Malte has been involved in several national and international research projects on the optimization of optical transport networks and high-speed transmission systems. He has authored or co-authored more than 35 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings and five patents in this field of investigations.