Wolfgang Riedel is a Principal Engineer inside Cisco's Enterprise Networking Group an the architect of DNS-AS.

Within his work inside the Network Transformation and Architecture Group he focuses on the intersection of the traditional Enterprise solutions and the Data Center as he brings significant DC background and expertise in addition to his broad Enterprise experience. Actual he specialized in developing solutions in the SDN space, especially everything around APIC.

From a customer support side he is designing large scale LAN, WAN and Datacenter's for enterprise customers and service providers within Europe.

Wolfgang has great focus on the customer’s needs and objectives, articulating them into product requirements and network architectures, and then drive the development of leading edge Cisco products to meet these objectives.

Wolfgang joined Cisco in 2001 as a SE (Systems Engineer) where he progressed to the CSE role in the field. In 2008 he transitioned to the Corporate Consulting Engineering Team as a CE (Consulting Engineer), worked within Cisco's office of the CTO and in 2011 was promoted to Principal Engineer (PE).

Wolfgang holds a CCIE (R&S) and VCP 3/4/5 and is located in Erlangen, Germany (Between Munich and Frankfurt) .

Before he joined CISCO in 2001, he had been self employed as an independent consultant in the Networking and IT space for more then fifteen years.