Since October 2011 Diego has been in charge of Technology Exploration at the Global CTO Unit, within Telefónica I+D. His responsibilities are related to the definition and coordination of research projects in the areas of new networking technologies and network infrastructures. He is directly involved in activities related to network virtualization, core optimization, AAA, traffic analysis, and infrastructure security.
He is actively participating in the ETSI ISG on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), which he chairs. He is acting as a representative of Telefónica in bodies related to network technologies, and chairs the IRTF NFV Research Group. He has been appointed by the European Commission as member of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data e-Infrastructures (HLEG-SDI).
