Network Automation & AIOps

Mansour Karam, Founder and CEO of Aria Networks, presents their Deep Networking approach centered on performance optimization of AI clusters through fine-grain telemetry. The company's full-stack architecture combines hardware innovations like microsecond-resolution telemetry embedded in ASICs with specialized AI and agentic capabilities with in-built domain expertise.

Sanjay Kumar, VP of Products and Marketing, and Keyur Patel, CTO at Arrcus, discuss how the distributed nature of AI workloads is fundamentally changing network architecture, with Ethernet becoming a first-class citizen in AI networks for both training and inferencing across increasingly heterogeneous hardware environments. They explain how Arrcus addresses the needs of telcos, colocation providers, hyperscalers, enterprises, and neoclouds by providing a unified fabric that is scalable, highly secured, fully programmatic, and orchestrated on demand across different data centers.

Sanjay Kumar, VP of Products and Marketing at Arrcus, announces the Arrcus inference network fabric at MWC 2026, a solution enabling network operators to deliver agentic and physical AI with low latency, data sovereignty, and reduced cost per inference. He reveals a partnership with Fujitsu combining Fujitsu's Monaka processor with Arrcus' programmable operating system and Oneinity's optical interconnect, along with customer announcements with Lightstorm, demonstrating Arrcus' capabilities across edge 5G, multicloud networking, and data centers.

Dudy Cohen, VP of Product Marketing at DriveNets, presents the company's dual AI strategy at MWC 2026, introducing automation tools that simplify service provider operations and enable autonomous networks while helping operators leverage existing infrastructure for new AI business opportunities. DriveNets enables service providers to use the same infrastructure for both legacy services and new offerings like GPU-as-a-service, allowing them to build GPU clusters, become neo-clouds, and capitalize on the AI market.

Markus Kümmerle, Principal at MKWK Consulting, reports from Mobile World Congress Barcelona that the API ecosystem achieved 60 stable APIs in 2025 and is now shifting focus to customer value through channel partner products and aggregated API solutions. He explains that the industry must enable agentic AI and large language models to discover and call APIs through MCP servers, with CAMARA adapting its guidelines to support both product development and MCP server deployment for increased API consumption.

Ray Mota, CEO & Principal Analyst at ACG Research, examines the gap between marketing promises and actual capabilities in zero touch AI and automation for networking, arguing that zero trust should be treated as a comprehensive security posture requiring telemetry enforcement, micro-segmentation, and continuous AI-driven monitoring rather than a standalone product.

Jeff Raymond, VP EOS Software and Services at Arista Networks, in this extended interview, discusses Arista's strategy for breaking down traditional network silos and delivering unified multi-domain management. He also explores how cloud networking principles are reshaping enterprise infrastructure, enabling consistent security policies across multiple domains, and making advanced automation accessible to broader user bases.

In this director's cut, Renuka Nadkarni, Chief Product Officer at Aryaka, explains how the company's OnePass architecture solves enterprise challenges with disparate branch security and remote access solutions with consistent security policies and provides unified visibility for hybrid workforces. She describes how Aryaka's SASE as a Service 2.0 platform addresses AI traffic challenges with reliable connectivity, better observability and comprehensive access control and data leakage prevention.

Bob Friday from HPE discusses the convergence of networking, security, and application monitoring into unified solutions, emphasizing the critical importance of continuous uptime through orchestrated upgrades and cloud-based seamless experiences.

Pankaj Patel, CEO and co-Founder of Nile, discusses the company's seven-year journey to disrupt networking through ruthless automation powered by AI engines, data analytics, and zero trust fabric architecture, chalking up 500 deployments to date.

John McVey, Global VP of Customer Success at Blue Planet (a Ciena Company), presents three key predictions for how the telecom industry shifts from automation to autonomy in 2026, including the critical need for accurate OSS data as a prerequisite for agentic AI, the advancement of autonomous network use cases from pilots to production environments, and the acceleration of legacy OSS decommissioning as CSPs retire decades-old mainframe systems that block AI capabilities. McVey emphasizes that winning networks in 2026 will be smarter, self-governing systems built to operate at machine speed as Blue Planet helps CSPs modernize their OSS environments to unlock measurable autonomy.

Rafael Francis, Senior Director of Product Line Management at Ciena, discusses how AI is changing networking as the market shifts from model training to inference, showcasing the company's routing portfolio for data center interconnection and coherent routing integration with optical capabilities. He also touches on automation and agentic AI.

Tom Foottit, VP Products at Cisco Systems, presents Cisco Crosswork assurance and automation, highlighting how the company uses AI to enable autonomous networks through advanced data collection and analysis capabilities. He introduces Integrated Performance Measurement (IPM), a new technology providing granular network visibility.

Carsten Rossenhövel, Managing Director at EANTC, presents results from this year's multi-vendor interoperability event for transport and cloud networks, featuring 12 vendors and over 80 engineers conducting three weeks of testing that generated more than 1,900 test result pairs across segment routing, EVPN, time synchronization, orchestration, and use case blueprints.

Roland Thienpont, Director of IP Division Product Marketing at Nokia, presents data center interconnection with automation capabilities using modular architectures. He discusses the network journey from data centers to wide area networks, featuring AI agents for network operations, DDoS protection, and quantum-safe networks.

David Stokes, Head of IP Solutions & Portfolio Marketing at Ribbon, discusses how the industry is evolving beyond traditional networking by incorporating automation and AI to optimize user experience. He showcases advances in IP and optical networking capabilities enabled by domain-level automation platforms.

Larry Lunetta, VP of Product Marketing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, outlines the company's security-first networking strategy that integrates AI and autonomous systems to enhance network management. Drawing from a vast data lake of customer telemetry, HPE's AI solutions reduce troubleshooting time by 75% while implementing advanced security features like post-quantum cryptography and Zero Trust Network Access.

David Hughes, SVP and GM, SASE & Security at HPE, discusses the convergence of networking and security through agentic AI that can autonomously troubleshoot issues, identify root causes, and implement remediation while leveraging data lakes with anonymized telemetry from millions of devices to detect anomalous behavior and zero-day threats. He emphasizes the importance of using networks as both sensors and enforcement points for cybersecurity defense, predicting that within a couple of years customers will trust AI to make autonomous network configuration changes due to its explainable and transparent reasoning capabilities.

Galeal Zino, Founder and CEO of NetFoundry, and Roy Chua, Principal and Founder of AvidThink, explore NetFoundry's zero-trust native networking technology during a self-driving vehicle demonstration in San Francisco. The discussion highlights how NetFoundry enables secure global networks between various endpoints through software-based overlays that enforce strong authentication and authorization, serving major clients including top US banks and Fortune 500 companies.

Kishan Ramaswamy, Director, Product Management and Brendan Gibbs, Vice President, AI Routing & Switching Platforms at Arista Networks share their views on the impact of AI in the enterprise WAN and also touch on how Arista's cloud platform integrates AI capabilities for network troubleshooting and application management while supporting enhanced operations across wired and wireless environments.

Kishan Ramaswamy, Director, Product Management at Arista Networks, discusses how their analysis of over 200 uncovered the impact of AI applications on enterprise WANs and how Arista's VeloCloud solution can address these AI application requirements and capabilities effectively via AIOps.

In this extended video, Jean-Phillippe Goyet, Sr. Director Product Management - AI at Blue Planet (a Ciena Company), describes how Blue Planet implements agentic AI through their AI Studio framework, which operates across three layers: agentic core, tooling, and applications. He describes how the Blue Planet platform spans inventory, orchestration, and assurance, bringing new capabilities to their service provider customers.

Jean-Phillippe Goyet, Sr. Director Product Management - AI at Blue Planet (a Ciena Company), outlines their two-pronged approach that provides out-of-the-box applications while enabling customer enrichment. He describes how they re-engineer and optimize existing processes to create new capabilities like instantiating dynamic network slices via natural language.

Archana Khetan, SVP, Product Management and Technical Marketing at Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions, in this extended cut, explains how AI is reshaping enterprise operations. She outlines their three-phase AI journey to transform their NetCloud Manager platform into a system that enables autonomous network operations, featuring their virtual assistant ANA.

Archana Khetan, SVP, Product Management and Technical Marketing at Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions, explains how AI is reshaping enterprise operations, with 84% of business leaders viewing AI as critical to organizational success within three years. She outlines their strategy to transform their NetCloud platform into an AI-native system.

This extended edition video captures Director of Portfolio Management & M&A, Ben Hickey and Program Director, Sanil Nambiar, from IBM discussing how IBM Network Intelligence is bringing automation, predictive insights, and trust into next-generation network operations.

Ben Hickey from IBM introduces IBM Network Intelligence, a new product designed to enable autonomous network operations that can identify and remediate issues before outages occur while optimizing capital expenditure and achieving cloud-like utilization rates of 90-95%. The solution combines analytical AI for handling network telemetry scale with generative AI capabilities to cut across siloed data and systems.

Ram Ramanathan, VP Product Management at Ribbon, outlines the company's focus on cloud-native technology and AI-driven automation through a three-layered architecture approach for carriers and enterprises. He describes how Ribbon provides deployment automation, cloud monitoring, and security management while maintaining a vendor-neutral strategy.

Ram Ramanathan, VP Product Management at Ribbon, discusses the company's practical AI implementation strategy that moves beyond traditional siloed automation toward outcome-driven architecture addressing specific network problems. He outlines Ribbon's investments on agentic AI development and enhanced network data analysis.

Scott Robohn, CTO of Solutional, explains how AI is changing network operations and creating new opportunities for organizations to fundamentally alter their network management approaches. Robohn describes how Solutional helps customers navigate vendor claims and develop effective strategies for network automation.

Rafael Francis, Senior Director of Product Line Management at Ciena, outlines key findings, focusing on the shift from traditional MPLS to segment routing, IP optical integration, and AI applications. His analysis covers successful multivendor testing results and highlights Ciena's Navigator software and Blue Planet solutions for enhanced network operations and digital twin capabilities.

Tom Foottit, Director of Product Management, and Amish Servansing, Product Manager, at Cisco Systems, showcases advanced service assurance capabilities through provider connectivity and Crosswork solutions at MS World Congress, featuring a collaboration with Colt's IQET network. The presentation highlights how operations teams can monitor L3 VPN services and analyze network connectivity issues through weather map-style visualizations and detailed topology tracking across Europe.

Carsten Rossenhövel, Managing Director of EANTC, leads a major multi-vendor interoperability showcase featuring 12 vendors and 123 devices, focusing on SRv6 networks. The result is an 84-test case report from EANTC that guides operators in technology implementation.

Wim Henderickx, CTO IP Division at Nokia, discusses major industry trends including Quantum technology, Optical IP growth, and AI-driven networking advancements. His insights highlight the progression toward autonomous networks, comparing them to self-driving vehicles.

David Stokes, Head of IP Solutions & Portfolio Marketing at Ribbon, discusses key takeaways, including the adoption of pluggable optics in routers and the importance of network automation for IP and optical network convergence. He explains how the industry is moving toward a unified network resource model to support advanced services and AI deployments.

Gabriele Di Piazza, Vice President of Products, Alliances & Architectures at Blue Planet (a Ciena Company), discusses key Mobile World Congress trends including AI-driven infrastructure for network automation and digital twin technology for network simulation. He emphasizes how service providers are adopting data management layers while shifting toward cloud-native environments, highlighting the importance of building comprehensive ecosystems that unite network, OSS, and BSS players with developer communities.

Freddie Södergren, VP Head of Technology & Strategy for Business Area Networks at Ericsson, outlines the company's vision for future networks that combine high performance with programmability to support emerging use cases and tailored connectivity. He emphasizes how AI enhances RAN performance and network automation while highlighting the need to build infrastructure that efficiently handles distributed AI workloads with optimal latency and throughput.

Peter Jarich, Head of GSMA Intelligence at GSMA, discusses how operators have gained clarity on AI's applications in their networks, especially with generative AI's arrival.

Ofir Zemer, Vice President, Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., showcases the company's RAN Automation Suite, which features AI-driven capabilities and a Service Management Orchestration foundation. The system's agnostic layer enables carriers to express business objectives in natural language while leveraging predictive KPIs, RF analysis, and integration with various RAN vendor applications.

Phil Kippen, Global Head of Industry - Telecommunications at Snowflake, explains how 2024 will be defined by agentive AI and autonomous networks in telecommunications. He highlights the importance of legacy system integration, ecosystem development, and the progressive benefits of network automation as operators advance toward autonomous operations.

Karl Gass, Physical and Link Layer Working Group Optical Vice Chair at OIF, leads a comprehensive demonstration of coherent pluggable optics featuring multiple Ethernet implementations across three simulated data centers. The demonstration incorporates various module vendors, traffic generators, and orchestrators, showcasing interoperable solutions for 100G, 400G, and 800G Ethernet applications using different form factors and line systems.

Stephan Rettenberger, SVP of Marketing and Corporate Communications at Adtran, forecasts that by 2025, bandwidth demands will surge due to streaming, gaming, and AI, while networks shift from 10G to 100G using coherent technology. His analysis indicates the residential broadband market will maintain strong growth, especially in underserved regions, with XGS-PON and software automation leading deployment strategies.

Tim Doiron, VP of Solution Marketing at Infinera, shares his vision for 2025's optical networking landscape, highlighting advancements in Next Generation Optical engines and compact modular systems. His analysis points to significant progress in open optical automation, with network operators embracing multivendor solutions across coherent pluggables, optical line systems, and embedded optical engines.

Bob Friday from Juniper forecasts 2025 as the "year of AI connoisseurs" when enterprise customers will develop sophisticated understanding of AI's networking capabilities. Based on the progression from skepticism to acceptance since 2014, he anticipates numerous Proof of Concept implementations as organizations gain hands-on experience with AI network automation.

Jai Thattil, Head of Industry & Sustainability Marketing at Juniper, highlights three key networking trends including intent-based closed-loop automation, AI-driven sustainability initiatives, and widespread 800-gig networking adoption. These trends reflect the industry's focus on enhancing network operations through AI capabilities while addressing environmental concerns and meeting growing bandwidth demands across cloud, telecom, and data center environments.

Mike Bushong, Vice President, Data Center at Nokia, outlines three predictions for 2025 including AI initiative adjustments, renewed focus on practical innovation, and increased network automation adoption. His analysis suggests organizations will embrace multi-vendor control solutions while adapting to workforce changes and operational requirements.

John Capobianco, Product Marketing Evangelist at Selector, outlines three major networking predictions for 2025, including AI agents with specialized functions, digital twins for network testing, and the widespread adoption of automation. His analysis draws from extensive industry experience to highlight how these technological advances will shape enterprise networking practices and organizational expectations.

Eugina Jordan, Chief Marketing Officer at Telecom Infra Project, outlines three significant telecom predictions for 2025, including multimode AI for enhanced customer service and autonomous network management. Her analysis highlights how AI advancements will enable real-time network optimization through Open RAN ecosystems, with major vendors collaborating with startups on specialized applications for improved efficiency.

Bruce Lancaster, CEO of Wilson Connectivity, forecasts substantial private networking growth in 2025 as enterprise solutions become more affordable and accessible. The expansion is fueled by automation requirements for industrial equipment and IoT devices that need the performance advantages of 5G-based private networks.

Gretchen Tinnerman, GM, US Telco, Media and Technology Market at Kyndryl, discusses how AI enhances operational efficiency in SASE and SD-WAN technologies through improved automation and service delivery. She highlights AI's role in optimizing data processing and routing across cloud environments, enabling organizations to maximize their network infrastructure investments.

Sanjay Kumar, VP of Products and Marketing at Arrcus, discusses how AI/ML can enable anomaly detection, closed-loop remediation, and facilitate capacity planning in networks. He also touches on how AI/ML can improve security of networks.

Rahul Aggarwal, CEO of Augtera, introduces the company's AI and machine learning platform for network and infrastructure operations, which detects anomalies, predicts issues, and automates event correlation.

Archana Khetan, Contributing Analyst, and Roy Chua, Principal and Founder at AvidThink, discuss key findings in our AI in Networking report. Archana and Roy discuss the impact across multiple networking domains and the networking lifecycle, as well as predictive and generative AI use cases in discovery, automation, and simulation, and topics like building trust and demonstrating ROI.

Mary Stanhope, President and COO of Durham Black, discusses AI's potential in software robotics process automation for networking. Learn how AI can optimize tasks like multi-carrier pricing and cost savings, freeing humans for strategic decision-making.

If you think you know AI-in-Networking, think again. It's changing fast. Here is HPE's Larry Lunetta on new capabilities like built-in Network Detection and Response, third-party observability integration, and Gen Search capability, all powered by their extensive integrated networking data lake.

Chris Wade, CTO of Itential, explores how AI will shape network automation, predicting its integration into all products and the creation of smart agents to replace basic interfaces. Chris also touches on the importance of automation to facilitate AI controls.

Juniper's Jeff Aaron explores the progression of AI in networking, focusing on AI for networking automation and networking for AI environments. He introduces Juniper's AI native acceleration blueprint, which aims to simplify AI framework adoption and enhance network management through data-driven insights and a user experience-centric approach.

Cory Weppler, Head of Technology Strategy for IP Network Automation at Nokia, explores the intersection of network automation and artificial intelligence, highlighting the need for autonomous networks to address modern complexities. He discusses the importance of having networks that can "sense", "think", and "act."

Sam Pratt, CEO of Render Networks, explains how AI is speeding up network construction and improving connectivity delivery. AI-powered platforms leverage digital twins and build scenario analysis to boost productivity, cut costs, and ensure efficient network builds.

Steve Douglas, Head of Market Strategy at Spirent, explores the progression of AI in communications from tactical to strategic applications, highlighting the convergence of analytics, automation, and AI as crucial for network advancement.

Channa Seneviratne, Technology Engagement & Advancement Executive at Telstra, outlines the company's AI strategy encompassing network automation, predictive maintenance, and enhanced issue resolution. Telstra's transition to software-defined networking is enabling more advanced automation..

Moshe Lavi, Director of Technology Product Management at VMware (a Broadcom Company), explores how AI and ML can reduce operational costs for service providers managing complex 5G networks.

Arpit Joshipura, GM Networking + Edge IOT at Linux Foundation, discusses the evolution of NaaS and its transformative impact on enterprise and service provider networking. Joshipura points to the dependence of NaaS on many key capabilities like automation, and AI management. He also discusses key benefits for businesses adopting NaaS across productivity, cost, and security.

Gabriele Di Piazza, Vice President of Products, Alliances & Architectures at Blue Planet, a Ciena Company, discusses the implementation of Network as a Service (NaaS) across various network segments, highlighting three core aspects: intent-based declarative orchestration, dynamic inventory capability, and AI-driven operations and assurance.

In this Extended Cut video, Gabriele Di Piazza, Vice President of Products, Alliances & Architectures at Blue Planet (a Ciena Company), discusses how Network as a Service (NaaS) addresses key challenges faced by carriers through automated service creation and delivery. He highlights the core components of NaaS, including intent-based orchestration and AI-driven operations, while emphasizing the growing carrier interest in NaaS for its ability to enable quick, on-demand services and new business models.

Pascal Menezes, CTO of MEF, discusses the industry's shift towards carrier NaaS, which involves automating and connecting global underlays in a federated model to support overlay models like SD-WAN and network slicing. Menezes outlines four major themes in MEF's NaaS vision: on-demand connectivity, application performance guarantees, cybersecurity, and multi-cloud integration, emphasizing the importance of automation and federation among NaaS providers.

Kevin Vachon, COO of MEF, does a walking interview with Jim Carroll, and highlights the growing momentum behind NaaS at the Global MEF event, noting increased prioritization among carriers and new entrants.

Kelly Ahuja, CEO of Versa Networks, explores the expansion of NaaS beyond traditional connectivity to encompass a broader range of endpoints and services. He anticipates NaaS evolving into an abstraction layer that integrates various network types and leverages automation across the IT ecosystem to optimize performance for businesses.

John Carr, VP of Business Development at TransUnion, explores the intricacies of fiber network construction and sales, emphasizing TransUnion's proficiency in order management to streamline fiber promotion and delivery. TransUnion's Universal Order Connect system and Order Insights application offer automation and customization, enhancing the efficiency of fiber deployment processes and improving customer experience.

Javier Benitez, Senior Network Architect at Colt, discusses AI in networking, the standardization of segment routing, and the development of intent-based networking.

Mirko Voltolini, VP Innovation at Colt, discusses Colt's global fiber network expansion (Lumen EU acquisition) and the integration of their IP network with new capabilities like SRv6 and automation. Colt is also developing a green connectivity solution.

Amir Zmora, Founder and CEO of flexiWAN, speaks about AI/ML, network automation, and the concept of digital twins. He highlights that most companies are using AI for assistance and recommendations, not full network automation.

Sven Freudenfeld, CTO of Telecom BU at Lanner Electronics, discusses developments in the carrier space: software-defined networking, AI, and automation, and the relevance to Lanner's hardware.

Wim Henderickx, Head of Technology and Architecture IP at Nokia, emphasizes the need for automation in the human-intensive network operations and the potential transition towards machine-assisted operations.

David Stokes, Head of IP Solutions & Portfolio Marketing at Ribbon, emphasizes the event's focus on real operators' needs. He also touches on the shift from CLI to automation, the importance of cloud-native, and AI, ML, and big data analytics in networking.

Sanjay Kumar, VP of Products and Marketing at Arrcus, highlighted the company's strategy to leverage AI in network operations, including the introduction of a platform that connects various AI components across the network. Arrcus has also announced support for new platforms with enhanced ethernet connectivity, SmartNIC and DPU platforms like Nvidia Bluefield, and AR IQ, an observability platform providing a comprehensive network view for operators.

Andrew Border, VP Product Management of Telco Solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has announced the launch of Telco Core Automation, a new product that uses AI to automate and simplify operations in multicloud, multivendor, multi-domain public 5G network buildouts. The product aims to accelerate service delivery to the market, transforming basic operations of a 5G network and enabling a faster time to market with new services.

Andrew Coward, GM of Software Networking at IBM, emphasizes the potential of AI in managing and operating telecommunications networks, but noted the industry's lack of necessary analytics and orchestration infrastructure. To bridge this gap, IBM is partnering with GSMA to create a training academy focused on AI and supporting technologies.

Thierry E. Klein, President of Solutions Research at Nokia Bell Labs, emphasizes the company's extensive AI research, which is integral to various sectors including networking and industrial automation, and is applied throughout the entire lifecycle of a network. Klein also discusses the potential of running advanced AI algorithms on end devices and the development of a Nokia-specific language model trained on 20,000 Nokia documents.

Volker Ziegler, Senior Technology Advisor and Chief Architect at Nokia, highlights the company's growing use of AI and digital twin technology in network design and optimization services, resulting in a 20% average increase in network performance. The AI application also aids in detecting unserved network demand, fine-tuning 5G antennas, and enhancing worker safety by identifying potential hazards and ensuring the use of appropriate personal protection equipment.

Bennett Indart, VP of Smart World Solutions at NTT, highlights the use of data analytics and AI in enhancing network systems, including the creation of digital twins for proactive planning and dynamic operation. Indart also illustrates the application of AI in interpreting data from Indy car races, collected through 5G LTE networks, and expresses his belief that AI will transform business operations.

Devin Yaung, SVP of Global Enterprise IoT at NTT Data, highlights the critical role of Edge computing in AI models, emphasizing that AI effectiveness depends on the data collected at the Edge - the layer closest to the physical environment. He warns of companies exhausting processing power on the Edge due to cloud over-reliance, underlining the necessity for IoT sensors for data automation, and concludes that the right network, devices, and Edge compute are vital for AI development.

John-Paul Hemingway, Chief Strategy and Product Officer at SES, unveiled the company's new high-capacity system, O3b mPOWER, at MWC24, which delivers tens of Megabits up to multiple Gigabits from space to the ground. Hemingway also highlighted a private 5G base station developed with NTT Data and a partnership with Microsoft to build digital twins for oil rigs, demonstrating the potential of high-performance satellite connectivity and AI on a global scale.

Ahmad Danesh, Sr. Director of Product Management at Astera Labs, outlines three key challenges in data center infrastructure: AI workloads, real-time reasoning, and rapid deployment of new accelerators. Astera Labs addresses these issues through their Ethernet retimers, Smart Fabric switch, and PCIe 6 retimers, combined with their Cosmos software stack to enhance connectivity and observability.

Richard Colter, Head of Marketing at Fujitsu Network Communications, discussed key trends at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference, including enhancements to the Infinity Ultra Optical system, the growing importance of AI automation in network design, and the shift of funds from wireless to green initiatives for network modernization.

Robert Shore, SVP of Marketing at Infinera, showcases new solutions including their enhanced GX platform, new aggregation cards, the ICE 7 1.2 terabit optical engine, and optical line system functionality. Infinera will present its suite of intelligent coherent pluggable optics (ICE-X) and new applications for its Open Wave network automation suite.

Mattias Fridström, Chief Evangelist at Arelion, predicts a rise in DDoS attacks, significant breakthrough in AI enhancing automation and network interactions, and the continued importance of maintaining public internet access.

Sally Bament, VP of Cloud & Service Provider Marketing at Juniper, predicts that sustainability and "green networking" will become crucial, the rise of 800G networking, and the adoption of on-premises automation with cloud-based AI operations.

Kevin Vachon, COO of MEF, highlights the growth of Network as a Service (NaaS) offerings in 2024., Vachon predicts vendors will align their solutions to enhance service provider offerings. He anticipates a breakthrough in inter-carrier automation in the US market, overcoming complexities of migrating from legacy standards, and foresees the emergence of market-specific automation solutions.

Eugina Jordan, Chief Marketing Officer at Telecom Infra Project, predicts telecoms will increase their AI/ML use for improving operations and customer experiences, and automating network configuration. Eugina anticipates RIC adoption by mobile operators for network optimization and monetization, and a focus on sustainability and TCO reduction through AI/ML and automation.

Kamran Naqvi, Principal Network Architect at Broadcom, discussed the company's efforts to democratize networking by making features previously exclusive to hyperscalers available to all users, including the Sonic software, an open-source network operating system. Broadcom has enhanced Sonic to be more enterprise-class, leading to increased adoption among enterprise customers, and has enabled silicon telemetry features in its silicon, which can help customers quickly identify the root cause of network or application performance issues.

Greg McLaughlin, CEO of Automation Exchange (AEX), at Fiber Connect 2023, emphasized that fiber networks will disrupt economic models and businesses, enabling smaller companies to operate fiber networks due to increased funding and automation technologies. McLaughlin predicts a significant transformation in the fiber business landscape over the next three years, with diverse groups entering the industry and providing services to their communities.

Michael Kearns, Chief Strategy Officer at Amartus, underscored the significance of automation and standardization in Network as a Service (NaaS) to streamline services for enterprise customers, emphasizing the necessity for standardization processes and API standardization to manage modern networks' complexity. Kearns also spotlighted Amartus' proficiency in network and cloud automation, its recent development of software to enable service trading in a wholesale environment, and its efforts to provide simplified orchestration and automation for enterprise customers, including unified APIs and portals.

Dan Wagner, CEO and Founder of CloudSmartz, highlighted the company's decade-long commitment to developing automation solutions for the trillion-dollar telecom industry, with a recent focus on enhancing customer experience. Despite its small size, CloudSmartz is growing rapidly by offering products that manage service provider-customer relationships, support Network as a Service, and accelerate revenue while reducing costs through automation, thereby competing effectively against larger software companies.

Mirko Voltolini, VP Innovation at Colt, spoke at the MEF Global NaaS event about the potential of Network as a Service (NaaS) to orchestrate services across multiple domains and providers, emphasizing the crucial role of APIs and the need for industry collaboration. Voltolini also shared that Colt has been utilizing APIs since 2015, advocating for the adoption of MEF LSO APIs, and has received positive feedback from customers with a growing ecosystem of partners using automation.

Nan Chen, President and CEO of MEF, unveiled the company’s new blueprint for Network as a Service (NaaS) at the MEF Global NaaS event, emphasizing the need for industry standards and MEF’s capacity to standardize and collaborate with the entire industry. Chen also highlighted the role of Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) APIs in delivering automated services and building an ecosystem of service providers, technology vendors, and enterprises, defining NaaS as a blend of on-demand connectivity, application assurance, multi-cloud services, and cybersecurity delivered over a global network.

Shawn Hakl, VP of 5G Strategy at Microsoft, emphasized the significant strides made by operators and suppliers in adopting the LSO standards and framework, which has enabled automation across various sectors of the industry, particularly in SDWAN and security. Hakl also underscored the importance of forums like MEF in promoting industry collaboration, the advances in generative AI, and the focus on AI-based operations, which are fundamental for automation and the creation of modern connected applications that depend on a differentiated network.

Divesh Gupta, VP of New Technology & Sales Operations at PCCW, discussed the company's development of Network as a Service (NaaS) for over five years, highlighting their product Edgeport that provides automated connections between data centers and enterprise buildings using MEF LSO Sonata APIs. Gupta also shared a use case of their product portfolio under Console Connect, where they orchestrated connectivity from Hong Kong to Singapore, offering an on-demand connection to AWS, resulting in significant cost savings.

Mobile World Congress 2023 marks an important inflection point, says Geoff Hollingworth -- the industry realizes that it needs to pivot to telco cloud. It needs to change how it processes core network function. The mobile now knows that it must embrace software, cloud, and automation

Steve Douglas, Head of 5G Strategy, Spirent Communications, provides key insights on a new generation of operational support systems that is bringing active assure capabilities to market. The is driven by the migration to 5G architecture.

Tom Foottit, VP Products from Accedian, explains how Accedian's partnership with Cisco can improve network performance assurance. The video provides details on: - Integration between Accedian and Cisco Crosswork for automation and assurance - Utilizing SRv6 data and performance data for better network correlation - Successful implementation with service provider customer Colt

Gerhard Wieser, VP Automation from Elisa Polystar (CEO of Frinx.io prior to their acquisition) discusses: - Elisa Polystar's dedication to service assurance automation, closed-loop, and orchestration, built on a foundation of successful acquisitions and Elisa's own experience as a mobile operator. - Their comprehensive package of service assurance, transport automation, RAN automation, fault automation, and data operations, offering a compelling solution for customers. - The Elisa Polystar platform, which combines best-in-class products and experiences to help customers with service assurance automation, orchestration, and closed-loop processes.

How can automation and orchestration enhance enterprise connectivity? In the video, Stefan Walraven, CEO of Inmanta answers the question by covering: - Importance of time to market: How automation helps enterprises achieve secure and reliable connectivity when and where they need it. - Network as a service (#NaaS): Why #automation and orchestration are essential for delivering network on demand. - Intent-based approach: How Inmanta's unique method ensures a smooth transition from one stable state to another, providing better results.

Eli Karpilovski, CEO of InsidePacket, explains how service providers can enhance their network offerings for enterprise customers by: - Leveraging network-as-a-service (#NaaS) solutions to automate networks and provide seamless connectivity - Enabling application observability and other essential tools for enterprise customers - Reducing costs and opening new revenue streams by utilizing commodity off-the-shelf hardware

Roland Thienpont, Director IP Division Product Marketing from Nokia explains: - Why he's excited to be at MPLS WC with detailed in-depth customer discussion - How they are showcasing 800G, FP5 silicon, DeepField DDoS, and automation technologies - How he's seeing strong customer engagement and expectation to return next year

In this video, Amar Kapadia, CEO of Aarna Networks, explains why the middle mile is going through a renaissance and how it is changing the game for multi-cloud networking. He discusses three factors driving the anticipated growth of the middle mile: * Multi-cloud networking: Enterprises are choosing to use multiple public clouds to run their business, and they need dedicated connectivity to each of these clouds. This connectivity has to be provided on demand in a self-service manner. * Cloud repatriation: To use multiple clouds effectively, the state information or the data has to be moved to a neutral site that can be accessed by any public cloud or even private clouds in an easy-to-use manner without incurring egress costs. The middle mile is an excellent location to host the storage or the databases for the state information. * Orchestration: It requires orchestration of tens of heterogeneous infrastructure vendors across tens of thousands of sites, following that it requires orchestration of hundreds of Network Services and applications across this infrastructure. Watch this video to learn more about how the middle mile is changing the game for multi-cloud networking.

Jeremiah Ginn, Cybersecurity Evangelist from AT&T, explains how they deliver end-to-end circuit quality through their defined core, leveraging LSO APIs to integrate with partners, vendors, and competitors, and their solution that allows for automatic provisioning of connections to different cloud service providers. AT&T's Business Center also gives customers the ability to create a virtual cross connect in any participating cloud service provider through orchestration in the API.

In this video, Eli Karpilovski, CEO, InsidePacket, explain discusses how his company's network-as-a-service solution can help service providers automate their networks, reduce costs, and deliver new services to enterprise customers. Here are the top three talking points: - Inside Packet's solution enables service providers to take their existing infrastructure and automate it, providing a reduction of cost by running on commodity off-the-shelf hardware. - Service providers can add services on top of their network infrastructure, connecting enterprise customers to all their assets wherever they are and providing application observability tools that are missing from their current offering. - InsidePacket is focused on the "middle mile," where service providers have the biggest potential to become the center of the offering for enterprise customers, connecting them to clouds and providing new revenue streams.

Franck Morales, VP Evolution Platform from Orange, explains how they are delivering a secure digital infrastructure to accompany their customers in their digital-first business. Orange is transforming its backbone into a full internet backbone to deliver cloud-based services in 220 geographies. The backbone is fully co-located with major cloud providers like Google, Azure, and AWS. Orange is also clarifying the use case of SaaS and ensuring an end-to-end answer to customers by doing a Federation of resources using API and orchestrations. This simplifies the design and management of solutions and ensures a digital experience. Orange is hosting SaaS solution vendors that will be delivered from their infrastructure within Evolution platform, ensuring an amazing and outstanding digital experience while continuing to benefit from the innovation of technology vendors.

Divesh Gupta, VP of New Technology & Sales Operations at PCCW Global, explains how APIs can help automate the extension of connectivity services from the middle mile to the last mile. Here are the top talking points from the video: * Automated networks are mostly limited to data center-to-data center automation, but extending connectivity services to enterprise buildings requires relying on downstream partners. * To automate the extension of connectivity services, APIs are needed to order and provision services on the fly. * MEF has released APIs under the MEF Sonata Automation, which allows service providers to automate the address provisioning product order qualification code and orders while using standard-based APIs. PCCW Global is making use of this automation capability and incorporating it into their Console Connect platform to extend their automation capability down to the downstream vendors.

Struggling with network security and manual network management? Jeff Gray, CEO of Gluware, explains how their innovative solution can help: - Discover and create a digital twin of any multi-vendor, multi-domain enterprise network - Expose security violations, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations for effective remediation - Implement hyper-automation with self-operating bots for efficient and secure network management

How can large enterprises confidently automate their journey to the cloud? Houman Modarres, Head of Enterprise Marketing from Nokia explains: - The importance of security and agility in cloud migration - Integrating network support applications into CI/CD pipelines for automation - Utilizing a digital sandbox for scenario planning and avoiding unintended consequences

Struggling to balance exceptional user experience with complex applications across multiple cloud environments? Dan Sheldon, Sr. Solutions Architect from Prosimo, explains how to tackle these challenges using cloud-native constructs: - Seamlessly integrate in Brownfield environments without overhauling existing applications - Deliver orchestrated security and actionable insights from observability - Utilize service networking core concepts to achieve benefits at a fraction of the cost with minimal infrastructure Don't miss out on these valuable insights to optimize your cloud strategy and enhance user experience!

Struggling with IT operational efficiency and overwhelming ticket volumes? Jason Reese, CRO from Selector, explains how their IT observability platform can help: - Ingest data sources from monitoring tools and native data sets for better insights - Apply machine learning and correlations to solve problems faster and reduce ticket backlog - Network-aware observability platform that dives deep into interdependencies and infrastructure layers

How the current multination security situation changing the strategic outlook of global carriers? How is is the user experience impacting service assurance? Here are 3 predictions from Arelion’s Mattias Fridström.

There has been a lot of progress in network programmability over the years. What's next? Itential's Chris Wade makes his predictions for what's next on network automation in 2023.

How will network automation impact the enterprise market? Will AI change the game? Here are 3 predictions from Juniper Networks's Jeff Aaron.

Service Providers have been adopting MEF LSO Sonata APIs to automate orchestrate delivery across a partner ecosystem. How will this trend fare in 2023? MEF's Stan Hubbard makes his predictions for service automation in 2023.

MEF is enabling an ecosystem of network, cloud, and technology providers dedicated to enterprise digital transformation. What are the next steps in network evolution in 2023? MEF's Pascal Menezes makes his predictions for network automation and orchestration in 2023.

Is network disaggregation really here to stay? Has network automation passed a tipping point? Ribbon's David Stokes makes predictions for IP infrastructure in 2023.

Amar Kapadia, CEO of Aarna Networks, identifies manageability, cost, and purpose as the three key elements hindering the growth of private 5G networks. To address these issues, Aarna Networks is developing an orchestration and management solution for private 5G, aiming to make it as manageable as Wi-Fi, cost-competitive, and a network that connects edge computing applications to end devices.

Jeff Aaron, VP of Enterprise Marketing at Juniper, revealed that while private 5G has garnered interest, it is not a primary focus in their current roadmap, with the company instead prioritizing AI Ops automation and insights to improve user connections and experiences. Aaron also highlighted the growing interest in Network as a Service (NaaS), a flexible solution that transitions acquisition from a capital to an operational expenditure, and predicted its uptake beyond the commercial space.

Parm Sandhu, VP of Enterprise 5G Products & Services at NTT, highlighted that customers are more interested in achieving business outcomes such as automation, worker safety, and productivity, rather than just purchasing a network or edge compute. NTT has been successful in meeting these needs by starting with the desired business outcome, working out the financials, and offering private 5G as a service, which allows customers to switch to a monthly subscription model, with a focus on providing secure, robust, and reliable communication for mission-critical use cases.

Amar Kapadia, CEO of Aarna Networks, highlights three key trends in edge networking: the need for flexible networking due to the distribution of applications across multiple edge and public clouds, the growing trend towards on-demand or cloud-like consumption of networks, and the increasing importance of private 5G in enterprise environments. Aarna Networks responds to these trends by offering orchestration and management for edge environments and private 5G, providing on-demand flexible connectivity between edge and public clouds, and managing networks on demand.

Kelly Ahuja, CEO of Versa Networks, highlights the benefits of SASE (Secure Access Service Edge), a unified platform that combines security and networking functions for improved agility, automation, and simplification. Versa Networks provides their SASE solution to enterprises and service provider partners, enabling innovative services for their customers.

Automation is key to enabling services across a global ecosystem of Service Providers, says Franck Morales, Vice President, Evolution Platform, Orange Business Services, and Director of MEF. Here is a perspective on how this automation is developing within MEF and across the industry.

The telco cloud has evolved from in-house carrier platforms to hybrid offerings that include public hyperscaler offerings and in-house offerings. The telco cloud ranges from public regional clouds to even uCPE on premises. Telcos face challenges in managing the diversity of hardware platforms and locations — APIs and standards, and assurance of performance is still evolving. Marc Cohn, Principal Technology Strategist, Spirent explains.

Seeing colleagues again from across the industry is a major benefit of this year's event, comments Richard Piasentin, Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Marketing Officer at Accedian. Delivering on the promise of 5G requires a robust service assurance strategy and operators are now moving in this direction. Download AvidThink's MWC 2022 Report Collection to explore exclusive insights and research findings on hot topics covered at MWC 2022.

What’s hot at MWC 2022? Proactive Service Assurance for 5G says Rohit Batra, Head of Telecommunications, Media and Technology product for ServiceNow. Two key partnerships are highlighted: NTT and DISH. Download AvidThink's MWC 2022 Report Collection to explore exclusive insights and research findings on hot topics covered at MWC 2022.

Amar Kapadia, Co-Founder and CEO of Aarna Networks, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Richard Piasentin, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Strategy Officer of Accedian, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Stephan Rettenberger, SVP Maketing and Investor Relations at ADVA, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Prayson Pate, CTO, Edge Cloud at ADVA, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Amir Khan, President & CEO / Founder at Alkira, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Eddie Ramirez, VP of Marketing, Infrastructure Business at Arm, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Shekar Ayyar, Chairman and CEO of Arrcus, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Derek Granath, SR Director, Product and Technical Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Dave Ginsburg, VP Product and Solutions Marketing at Aryaka, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Bindu Sundaresan, Director at AT&T Cybersecurity, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Tom Sego, Co-Founder and CEO at BlastWave, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Özer Dondurmacıoğlu, VP of Marketing at Celona, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Kevin Morgan, Chief Marketing Officer of Clearfield, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Todd Krautkremer, Chief Marketing Officer at Cradlepoint, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Jake Joo, Technical Manager, DuPont Silicon Valley Technology Center, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Sylvain Quartier, VP, Marketing and Product Strategy at Ekinops, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Iyad Tarazi, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Federated Wireless, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Gary Bolton, President and CEO of Fiber Broadband Association, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Jonathan Nguyen-Duy, VP, Global Field CISO at Fortinet, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Eric Hayes, CEO of Fungible, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Vikas Gupta, Director of Product Management and Marketing at GlobalFoundries, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Khalid Raza, Founder and CEO of Graphiant, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Andrew Coward, GM, Software Defined Networking at IBM, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Tim Doiron, Sr. Director, Marketing at Infinera, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Alan Chang, Vice President, Technical Operations at Inspur Systems, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Peter Sprygada, VP Product Management at Itential, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Sally Bament, VP of Cloud and Service Provider Marketing at Juniper Networks, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Bob Friday, VP and CTO, AI-Driven Enterprise Business at Juniper Networks, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Jeff Aaron, VP of Enterprise Marketing at Juniper Networks, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Kate Adam, Senior Director of Security Product Marketing at Juniper Networks, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Mike Bushong, VP of Data Center Business at Juniper Networks, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Joel Brand, Senior Director, Product Marketing at Marvell, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Will Chu, SVP & General Manager, Automotive at Marvell, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Nigel Alvares, Vice President of Solutions Marketing at Marvell, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Radha Nagarajan, SVP & CTO, Optical & Copper Connectivity at Marvell, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Daniel Bar-Lev, VP Strategic Programs, Business Development at MEF, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

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Kevin Vachon, Chief Operating Officer of MEF, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Sanjay Mewada, Worldwide Marketing Leader at Microsoft Azure, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Jason Hoffman, President and CEO of MobiledgeX, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Cliff Grossner, Vice President, Market Intelligence at Open Compute Project, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Rebecca Weekly, Board Chair at Open Compute Project, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Timon Sloane, VP of Marketing and Ecosystems at Open Networking Foundation, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Todd Rychecky, VP of Sales at Opengear, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Francis Dinha, Founder and CEO of OpenVPN, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Thierry Maupilé, Executive VP, Strategy and Product Management at Rakuten Symphony, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Marc Cohn, Principal Technology Strategist at Spirent, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Mattias Fridström, Vice President & Chief Evangelist at Telia Carrier, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Noah Drake, Vice President of Customer Solutions, Americas at Telstra, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Arpit Joshipura, GM/SVP Networking + Edge/IOT at The Linux Foundation, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Neil Anderson, Senior Director of Network Solutions at World Wide Technology, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

In this video, Heather Kirksey, VP of Ecosystem and Community at LF Networking, and Amar Kapadia, Co-Founder and CEO at Aarna Networks, talks about LF Networking’s 5G Super Blueprint initiative. Amar discusses Aarna Networks’ involvement, his point of view, and future plans for Open RAN. Download AvidThink's 2021 Open RAN Report to explore key infrastructure considerations for Open RAN and O-RAN adoption.

Service Providers are challenged with complexity and technologies coming into deployment, such as network slicing, disaggregation, and virtualization of RAN infrastructure, only add to the challenge. Here is a perspective from Santiago Rodriguez, Head of Strategic Projects, Lead of Intelligent Automation Platform, at Ericsson.

Private 5G networks, like public 5G networks, are completely software driven, but there are many key differences in regards to the management and orchestration of each network. In this video, Amar Kapadia, Founder and CEO at Aarna Networks, looks at five key differences between private and public 5G networks.

Assurance is a critical and an ongoing component in the deployment and performance of 5G networks. In this video, Greg Spear, Director, Solutions Enablement at Accedian, talks about the key components for a successful 5G private network deployment and the importance of assurance and automation to drive monetization.

In this video, Rupesh Chokshi, Vice President of AT&T Cybersecurity, discusses four macro IT trends including multicloud adoption, zero-trust network access, automation and what SD-WAN brings forward to enable these trends.

SD-WAN is about delivering a real, unified, automation simplification to the enterprises for all their networking needs. In this video, Sunil Khandekar, General Manager/Founder of Nuage Networks from Nokia, shares three SD-WAN trends for enterprise networking that they are actively participating in.

In this video, Michael Kearns, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Amartus, shares examples to support the need for coordination between providers. He discusses the overall scope of opportunity for the market drivers as well as the changes in networking, cloud, and application delivery that are disrupting the industry. Download AvidThink's 2021 Service Assurance Report to explore strategies on building future-ready service assurance for business and technology leaders.

Every part of an organization is equally important to ensure a positive customer experience. In this video, Staffan Göjeryd, CEO of Arelion, talks about how service assurance and client care helps Arelion maintain a successful customer experience.

With large amounts of data, endpoints and interactions taking place on a network, the focus on service assurance becomes even more important. In this video, Rupesh Chokshi, Vice President of AT&T Cybersecurity, discusses why service assurance and cybersecurity are critical in the ongoing management of the network. Download AvidThink's 2021 Service Assurance Report to explore strategies on building future-ready service assurance for business and technology leaders.

Going forward, service assurance is vital for personal and business communications, says Chet Patel, BT’s Chief Commercial Officer and President, BT Americas. Continuous investment is needed, especially in AI, automation, and analytics, to ensure the best customer experience. Download AvidThink's 2021 Service Assurance Report to explore strategies on building future-ready service assurance for business and technology leaders.

Service assurance must evolve to expand visibility, understand context, and encompass SD-WAN and SASE. In this video, Angelique Medina, Director, Product Marketing of Cisco ThousandEyes, discusses how service assurance is evolving and why it needs to progress from monitoring to observability. Download AvidThink's 2021 Service Assurance Report to explore strategies on building future-ready service assurance for business and technology leaders.

What’s the boundary of where managed service providers and carriers start and stop with respect to cloud services? In this video, Jeff Lewis, Vice President, Software Defined Networking – Products, Solutions and Operations at Comcast Business, discusses the complexity of interacting with services in the cloud. Download AvidThink's 2021 Service Assurance Report to explore strategies on building future-ready service assurance for business and technology leaders.

5G is changing the landscape for service assurance. Historically, the telco industry has relied on passive monitoring to fulfill service assurance needs. In this video, Mikael Grill, CEO of Emblasoft, talks about the advantages of introducing active monitoring for more precise measurement of network service KPIs and QoS. Download AvidThink's 2021 Service Assurance Report to explore strategies on building future-ready service assurance for business and technology leaders.

The requirements around network quality are drastically increasing for both business and home use cases. SLAs are promising network quality with network KPIs, but how can we measure this? Meet active assurance. In this video, Stefan Vallin, Senior Product Manager at Juniper Networks, discusses how active assurance manages SLAs to ensure network quality. Download AvidThink's 2021 Service Assurance Report to explore strategies on building future-ready service assurance for business and technology leaders.

It’s all about the application experience. In this video, Mehul Patel, Head of Marketing at Prosimo, discusses the important factors in delivering application experience with today’s infrastructure, including application security, speed, and the overall cost. Download AvidThink's 2021 Service Assurance Report to explore strategies on building future-ready service assurance for business and technology leaders.

Are you ready to reimagine your network operations? In this video, Walter Kenrich, Sr Director Product Management for Analytics and SaaS at Ribbon Communications, discusses the three key pillars that telecom customers need to endorse in their service assurance efforts: visibility, agility, and automation. Download AvidThink's 2021 Service Assurance Report to explore strategies on building future-ready service assurance for business and technology leaders.

It all starts with the infrastructure. In this video, Chadie Ghadie, Director of Business Development at Lenovo, looks at key infrastructure features required for telcos to become more agile, more software driven, and more automated in support of the data that is generated from 5G.

When we talk about embracing the principles of CI/CD, the goal is to automate Ribbon’s CI/CD pipeline to align with, and enable, our customer’s CI/CD environment. It also encompasses how automation enables cloud native operations. This engineering discussion delves into Ribbon’s adoption of CI/CD and cloud native operations and how the artifacts delivered by Ribbon enable frictionless integration with their customer’s automation environments.

The opportunity that lives at the edge is not just about speed and performance, but the consistent, unwavering delivery of that performance. Kaela Loffler, VP of Marketing at Accedian, talks about the demands next-gen edge applications will place on the network. She highlights the importance of visibility into performance across complex, multi-vendor, multi-operator, and multi-cloud environments. With the USD 190B gaming industry as a backdrop, she discusses the importance of achieving speed, low latency, and consistent, guaranteed performance at the edge.

Edge computing helps businesses further their digital transformation journey. However, getting from pilot to production at scale can come with many pain points. In this video, Jean-Marius Antonica, Software Product Line Manager at Lenovo, talks about the challenges customers are facing when trying to productize edge deployments and how Lenovo’s edge devices and automation tools help address these challenges.

LF Edge now has multiple open source projects underway to redefine the capabilities and efficiencies of the next-gen intelligent network edge. One of the key foundational capabilities that unlocks the full value of the edge is automation. Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and Co-founder of RackN, and LF Edge Board Member, discusses the importance of automation and how it enables for scaling edge deployments.

Pensando Systems is working with VMware on Project Monterey to integrate the next generation of SmartNIC technology into fully virtualized enterprise networks. In this video, Silvano Gai of Pensando Systems talks about Project Monterey and the benefits for customers, including performance, scale, and features such as firewalling, micro-segmentation, encryption, telemetry, and more.

The key challenge for NFV is the operationalization, the automation, and the management that will be required for organizations to succeed. JL Valente, VP/GM Service Provider Solutions, Cloud Platform and Solutions Group at Cisco, takes a look at what's coming to NFV in 2020 and beyond.

Network Automation is what enables AT&T to scale their network. Chris Rice, Senior Vice President at AT&T, takes a look at the progress their automation and orchestration platform has made in the last two years — from where it was to where it is now — and discusses how AT&T uses ONAP.

The future of network automation involves acquiring key operational data within the network and tying that to automation workflows in an intelligent manner. FRINX has combined a system of multiple components (controller and agent), a workflow engine, and open-source databases into one solution that is ready to work out of the box. Gerhard Wieser, CEO of FRINX, talks about how FRINX allows customers to provision services, configure devices, and understand the state of their whole network at scale.

Automating a global enterprise to scale can be a herculean task. Choosing the best approach, such as using an intent-based, model-driven based network automation engine can simplify the process of automating an existing multi-vendor network, freeing precious IT engineering time to deliver strategic innovation. Gluware CEO and Co-founder, Jeff Gray, talks about how Gluware helps enterprises like Mastercard, Merck and more deploy network automation at scale and the business benefits of doing so.

Marisa Viveros, VP of Strategy and Solutions, Global Telecom at IBM, discusses the challenges telecommunication providers are facing today. She discusses the key role that automation and orchestration will play and how IBM aims to bring that to customers.

To advance network automation, organizations need to move from manual, human-centric command line interfaces (CLIs) to machine-driven automation. Chris Wade, Co-founder and CTO of Itential, talks about the critical issues associated with network automation and why it’s time to treat the network as code. By taking a software-centric approach, organizations can integrate across multiple domains for end-to-end network automation.

Networking infrastructure is sure to evolve quickly during the 2020s. Kazuhiro Gomi, CEO of NTT Research, introduces the Innovative Optical & Wireless Network (IOWN), a new vision for an all-photonic core network enhanced by quantum technology and breakthroughs in privacy and security.

Data centers are becoming more distributed and smaller, says Mike Capuano, Chief Marketing Officer at Pluribus, moving into central offices or even radio base station aggregation locations. This makes network automation absolutely critical. These smaller data centers have to become software-defined.

Arpit Joshipura, GM Networking & Orchestration + Edge/IOT for The Linux Foundation, discusses ONAP’s recent release, Dublin, and how the LF’s new blueprints help operators deploy network automation at scale in production.

As enterprises become dependent on the use of SD-WAN for business-critical infrastructure, they need to ensure that SD-WAN devices don’t end up becoming a single point of failure. Opengear CEO, Gary Marks, discusses how a reliable, cost-effective out-of-band solution can provide additional assurance and recovery options for SD-WANs.

Testing and service assurance is going to play a major role in enabling the adoption of the industry's first SD-WAN standard, specifically in terms of functionality, performance, and security. Marc Cohn, Director of Technology Strategy and Virtualization at Spirent and Co-Chair of MEF Certification Committee, discusses why SD-WAN testing is more extensive than traditional infrastructure testing.

In enterprises today, too many tasks are manual, but as the network evolves from site-to-site to a user-to-app model this will change, says Kelly Ahuja, CEO of Versa Networks. A key to this is network telemetry from wherever the user is located. This data will open new possibilities for (1) security/compliance and (2) automation/programmability.