José Manuel Arco received their Ph.D. in Telecommunications engineering from the University of Alcala, Spain, in 2002. He has been an Associate Professor in the Automatica Department (Telematic Area) at the University of Alcalá in Spain since 2002. His current research interests encompass SDN/NFV, high performance and scalable Ethernet, Traffic Engineering, and data center networks. He also teaches. NFV and data center networks. He has participated in different competitive research projects from Madrid regional government and National and European levels. His research activity has been published in high impact JCR indexed research magazines, conferences, and workshops on networking technologies.