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Robert McFarlane
Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant
Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant, has spent more than 35 years in communications as both a consultant and teacher. His experience spans every segment of the industry including cable design, fiber optics, data communications, telephony, data center facilities, financial trading systems, satellite earth stations, video and multi-media, and acoustics. As a pioneer in the field of building cabling design, Bob authored papers that set forth fundamental principles for the industry that are still followed today. He was also instrumental in the development of video teleconferencing, giving nationwide seminars on room and system design before writing the foundation paper, published in Architectural Record, which set the standards for this field. Robert has spoken at countless seminars on building infrastructure for electronic communications, evolving technologies and the highly demanding requirements of data center design and financial trading floors. Bob currently teaches the Data Center Facilities course in the Marist College IDCP (Institute for Data Center Professionals) Certification Program and is a member of the Adjunct Faculty of New York University where he lectures in telecommunications.