Prayson Pate
1984 - 2009
Conference Presentation - "Role of MPLS Pseudowires in the Access Network"
MPLS & Ethernet World Conference 2009 - Paris - February 10, 2009
There is a raging debate about the relative merits of using technologies like MPLS Pseudowires, PBB/PBB-TE, Q-in-Q and GRE in the Access Network. The opposing camps often provide arcane and political arguments for their positions. Conspicuously absent from these discussions is, “what problem is being solved?” This presentation describes some of today’s pressing problems, and provides four real-...more
Conference Session Chair - "Multi-service Enabling Gigabit Ethernet"
SuperComm 2005 - Session T07B - Chicago - June 7, 2005
Chaired session with these speakers:
- Michael Howard – Infonetics
- Bert Buescher - Tellabs
- Nick DelRegno – MCI
- Tony Thakur – Time Warner Telecom
Conference Presentation - "VPLS: Extending the benefits of MPLS to the metro edge"
Supercomm 2004 - Session IP-11 - June 22, 2004
Discussion topics:
- What is VPLS?
- What are the advantages of VPLS over previous Transparent LAN Service (TLS) technologies?
- Can VPLS support the required MAN/WAN services?
- Can service providers make money from VPLS?
- Can VPLS scale?
Conference Presentation - "Multi-service Alternatives in the Metro Network"
Expocomm 2004 - Mexico City - February 12, 2004
Discussion topics:
- Four dimensions of multi-service
- Multi-service alternatives
- A four-dimensional approach
- Case studies
Conference Presentation - Centralized Collision Detection in Fiber Optic Ethernet
FOCLAN 1985 - September 1985
Describes methods for detecting collisions in an optical Ethernet network constructed using a passive star coupler.
Conference Presentation - Transceiver Design and Implementation Experience in an Ethernet-Compatible Fiber Optic LAN
IEEE 1984 Proceedings of Infocom - 1984
2013
Speech - "Innovation and Transformation" - Cisco Innovation Day
December 4, 2013 - RTP NC
Video - "Overture's Prayson Pate Lays Out Requirements for Carrier Class NFV Orchestration"
October 22, 2013
Conference Panel - "SDN Cloud Perspective: Virtualization and Automation"
TIA 2013 - The Future of the Network - Washington, DC - Monday, October 7, 2013
- Moderator - Christos Kolias, Research Scientist, Orange SV
- Chris Rivera, Sr. Director, Systems Engineering and Architecture, U.S., Cisco
- Stuart Mackie, SDN Architect, Marketing, Juniper
- John Healy, Director, Strategic Marketing, Intel
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technologist, Overture Networks
Conference Panel - "Network Automation & Orchestration With Carrier SDN & NFV"
Ethernet & SDN Expo - NYC - 3:40 - 4:40 Wednesday, October 2, 2013
- Moderator: Caroline Chappell, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
- Margaret Chiosi, AVP Individual Contributor, Technical Strategy, AT&T
- Ralph Santitoro, Director of Strategic Market Development, Fujitsu
- Manish Gulyani, Vice President, Fixed Networks Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
- Nirav Modi, Director of Software Innovations, Cyan
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technologist, Overture
Conference Panel - "Carrier Ethernet and Ethernet over Copper: A Status Report"
Comptel Plus - Orlando, Florida - Tuesday, September 24, 2013
- Moderator: Raymond Chiu, CTO, Local Backhaul Networks
- Craig Drinkhall, Vice President, Product Management & Engineering, Lumos Networks
- Chad Hoyle, Senior Director Network Architecture, Duke Net Communications
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technologist, Overture
Video - "Prayson Pate explains SDN versus NFV"
August 13, 2013
Keynote Address - "Simple, But Hard"
Psi Upsilon Convention - Durham, NC - June 29, 2013
Meeting Address - "Simple, But Hard"
Raleigh Young Executives Club - Raleigh, NC - May 13, 2013
See also my blog adaptation of this talk.
Conference Session - "A Key to Network Evolution: Trends in Ethernet over Copper"
Comptel Plus Spring 2013 - Las Vegas - March 11, 2013
Moderator: Sean Buckley, Editor, FierceTelecom
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technologist, Overture
- Kurt Raaflaub, Senior Manager, Carrier Networks Product Marketing, ADTRAN, Inc.,
- Sameer Shah, Director of Product Management, Positron Access
- Russ Shipley, Senior Vice President, Wholesale and Network Services Telepacific
Conference Session - "Software Defined Networks (SDN) - The future of the Network?"
MetroConnect 2013 - Miami - February 20, 2013
Moderator: Aaron Blazar, VP, ATLANTIC-ACM
Panellists:
- Tad Deriso, CEO, LIT NETWORKS
- Prayson Pate, CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST, OvERTURE
- Steve West, CTO, CYAN INC
- Michael Rouleau, SVP – Business Development & Strategy, TW TELECOM
2012
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Conference Session Chair – Trends in Clouds and Datacentres
Carrier Ethernet APAC - Hong Kong - December 4, 2012
Chaired Day 1 Stream A sessions on Trends in Clouds and Datacentres
14:00 PANEL: POSITIONING THE ETHERNET COMMUNITY FOR CLOUD SERVICE DELIVERY
- Yoshinori Koike, Senior Engineer, NTT
- Per Dahlberg, CEO, ASIA CLOUD COMPUTING ASSOCIATION
- Dr. Cheng-KunWang, Principle Engineer, CISCO SYSTEMS INC.
- Magnus Broden, Director, Business Development ACCEDIAN NETWORKS
14.45: THE ADVANTAGES OF CLOUD SERVICE DELIVERY VIA CARRIER ETHERNET WANS - Shahar Steiff, VP - Business Operations, PCCW HONG KONG
15.10: BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS IN THE CLOUD MODEL: A HOLISTIC DEFINITION OF THE CLOUD BROKER - Abel Tong, Director of Product Management, CYAN & METRO ETHERNET FORUM
16.20 : THE VALUE OF ETHERNET IN PLDT’S DATA CENTRE BUSINESS? Gary F. Ignacio, Head of IP & Data Center Product Management Category, PLDT PHILIPPINES
16.45: NTT COMMUNICATIONS ETHERNET – TODAY AND TOMORROW? Kempei Fukuda, Director, Network Services, NTT COMMUNICATIONS
17:10 : NTT – LAYER CONVERGED TRANSPORT NETWORKS Yoshinori Koike, Senior Engineer, NTT CORPORATION
Conference Panel: Making the most of the next big thing - Remaking CE Revenue Streams
Carrier Ethernet APAC - Hong Kong - December 4, 2012
Chair: Michael Howard, Principal Analyst & Co-founder, Infonetics
- Victor Y. Tria, Vice President and Head of Corporate Business Solutions, PLDT
- Prayson Pate, Co-founder & CTO, OVERTURE NETWORKS
- Munira Jannati, Director - Ethernet Product Management, TATA COMMUNICATIONST
- Sten Nordell, CTO, TRANSMODE
- Zeev Draer, VP, Strategic Marketing, MRV OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
Conference Presentation - "CE 2.0 and Delivery of Private Cloud Services"
Moderator: Stan Hubbard, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Panelists:
- Marc Holness, Product Line Architect, Ciena
- Ralph Santitoro, Director, Carrier Ethernet Market Development, Fujitsu Network Communications
- Prayson Pate, CTO, Overture Networks
- Nir Halachmi, Product Line Manager, Mobile Backhaul, Telco Systems
Conference Presentation - "Ethernet over Copper – A Technology Roadmap"
COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2012 - Dallas - October 9, 2012
Moderator: Craig Easley, Carrier Ethernet Academy, and Director, Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF)
Speakers:
- Prayson Pate, CTO, Overture Networks
- Kurt Raaflaub, Product Manager, Ethernet and Optical Solutions, Carrier Networks Division, ADTRAN Inc
- Hossam Salib, VP, Product Management & Marketing, Positron Access
- David Williams, Senior Vice President, MegaPath
Conference Presentation - "Virtualising the Service Edge (VSE) to Streamline Service Delivery"
Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2012 - Barcelona - September 19, 2012
Moderator: Mark Durrett
Speakers:
- Prayson Pate, CTO, Overture Networks
- Patryk Konczyk, Senior Designer - Transport Design, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE - "Ethernet OAM reality check - mobile service provider perspective"
- Chiara Moriondo, Senior Engineer, Fixed Access Broadband Innovation, TELECOM ITALIA - "Introduction of Seamless MPLS in Telecom Italia Network"
Conference Panel - "Access Virtualization"
TIA 2012 "Inside the Network" - Dallas - June 6, 2012
Moderator: Sean Buckley of Fierce Telecom
Panelists:
- Prayson Pate
- Mike Kozlowski of Integra
Conference Presentation - "The Competitive Advantage of Multiple Access Options"
Light Reading Ethernet Europe 2012 - Munich - April 18, 2012
Moderator: Carol Wilson - Light Reading
Panelists:
- Prayson Pate - CTO - Overture Networks
- Joe Manuele - Actelis
2014
Conference Panel - "Harnessing SDN and NFV for a Streamlined Network"
Carrier Network Virtualization - Wednesday, December 10th 2014 - Palo Alto, CA
- Moderated by: Randall Schwartz, Principal Consultant, Wireless 20/20
- Christos Kolias, Senior Research Scientist, Orange, USA
- Eric Carmès, Founder and CEO, 6WIND
- David Hughes, VP Engineering, PCCW Global
- Prayson Pate, CTO and Senior Vice President of R&D, Overture Networks
- Eitan Schwartz, VP, Service Provider Line of Business, RAD Data Communications
- Narendra Dhara, CTO & Senior VP, Calsoft Labs
- Sanjay Bhatia, Senior Director, Solutions Marketing, Genband
Round Table - "Virtualization 100"
Round Table - "Getting down to business"
MEF GEN14 - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 10:45 - 11:45 am - Washington DC
Panel Moderator - "Service Provider CTO/Senior Technologist Perspectives - How More Automated, Orchestrated, And Interconnected Networks Will Redefine The Services Landscape"
MEF GEN14 - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 10:00 - 11:00 am - Washington DC
- Moderator: Prayson Pate – CTO, SVP R&D and Co-Founder at Overture Networks
- Randy Nicklas, EVP - Engineering & CTO, Windstream
- David Hughes, VP of IP Engineering, PCCW Global
- Axel Clauberg, VP of Aggr., Transport, IP (CTO-ATI) & Fixed Access (CTO-FIA), Deutsche Telekom
- James Feger, Vice President - Network Strategy & Development, CenturyLink
Conference Panel - "Combining CE, SDN, NFV, and Optical Technology Innovations To Drive Business Transformation"
MEF GEN14 - Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 4:25 – 5:15 pm - Washington DC
- Moderator: Michael Howard, Co-Founder & Principal Analyst Carrier Networks
- Prayson Pate, CTO, SVP R&D and Co-Founder at Overture Networks
- Ralph Santitoro, Dir. of Solutions Planning-Emerging Markets, Fujitsu
- Mitch Auster, Senior Director, Market Development, Ciena
- Zeev Draer, VP of Strategic Marketing, MRV
Conference Presentation - "End to End Service Intelligence with NFV: Leveraging Insights from the Physical and Virtual Worlds" - Video
SDN and OpenFlow World Congress - Dusseldorf, Germany - October 17, 2014 - 14:15 pm
Video - "Where are SDN and NFV Today?"
SDN and OpenFlow World Congress - Dusseldorf, Germany - October 15, 2014
Discussion Panel - "How mature is your network? What can you do to drive the transformation to NFV, or SDN?"
SDN and OpenFlow World Congress - Dusseldorf, Germany - October 15, 2014 - 3:00 pm
Telecom Ramblings Writeup - November 13, 2014
Panel Moderator - "Network Function Virtualization (NFV): Hope, Hype or Honest Value?"
COMPTEL Plus 2014 - October 7, 2014 - 9:30 am - Dallas, TX - Audio
- Moderator: Prayson Pate – CTO, SVP R&D and Co-Founder at Overture Networks
- Tim Naramore – CTO, Masergy
- Ray Patalano – Director, Solutions Marketing, Cyan
- Eitan Schwartz - VP, Service Provider Line of Business, North America, RAD
Webinar - "Intel Network Builders: Carrier-Class Environment for NFV Lifecycle Management"
BrightTALK - August 12, 2014 - noon EDT
- Prayson Pate – CTO, SVP R&D and Co-Founder at Overture Networks
- Charlie Ashton - Director of Business Development, Wind River
Discussion Panel - "To Fix or Not to Fix"
Telecom Council of Silicon Valley - Deep Dive: The Last Mile - June 11, 2014 - San Jose, CA
- Moderator: Jon Metzler, President at Blue Field Strategies
- Prayson Pate, CTO, SVP R&D and Co-Founder at Overture Networks
- Daniel Feldman, VP Business Development at Microsemi
- David Sumi, SVP Engineering at Proxim Wireless
Conference Panel - "Broadband Capacity - Where will a 10X Increase Come From?"
TIA 2014 - Network of the Future - June 3, 2014 - Dallas, TX
- Moderator: Erik Keith, Principal Analyst, Fixed Access & Digital Media Infrastructure, Current Analysis
- Gary Bolton, VP, Global Marketing, ADTRAN
- Prayson Pate, CTO & SVP of R&D, Overture Networks
- Rob Marson, Strategic Marketing Manager, JDSU
Video - Increasing Network Intelligence - TIA Now!
June 3, 2014
Conference Panel - "Strategic leadership Insight: how SDN and NFV Stands to Alter the Revenue Model"
- Colin Bannon, Chief Architect and CTO, BT Global Services, UK
- Shahar Steiff, AVP New Technologies at PCCW Global
Speech - "Ensemble OSA - Orchestration at the Edge of the Network"
JDSU Tech Synergy - Raleigh, NC - April 8, 2014
TIA Advisory Council Meeting
January 29, 2014 - Washington DC
2023
Conference presentation: Greening the Colors: The Path to Open and Efficient Optical Transport Networks
MPLS SD & AI Net 2023 - April 19, 2023 - 18:00 CEST
Webinar: Edge cloud and next-gen wireless
GoToWebinar - April 5 - 11:00 am EDT
CXO Keynote Panel: Progress and Potential in 5G and Fixed Networks
Connected America - March 28, 2023
Moderator: Sara Mascall, SVP Tech, Media and Telco Business Development, The Wall Street Journal
- Chris Sambar, President of Network, AT&T
- Prayson Pate, Solutions Marketing, Adtran
- Elad Nafshi, EVP and Chief Network Officer, Comcast
Webinar: Ensemble SmartWAN secure networking with flexiWAN (recording)
GoToWebinar - March 8 - 11:00 am EST
Webinar: Virtual machines and containers – which is better? (recording)
GoToWebinar - February 2 - 11:00 am EST
Webinar: High throughput virtualized services (recording)
GoToWebinar - January 5, 2023 - 11:00 am EST
2022
Podcast: “Tech Innovations, Disaggregation, and Messaging Strategy”
Whiteboard Geeks - Digital Marketing Masters episode 198
Webinar: Intro to edge cloud for on-premises user applications
GoToWebinar - December 1, 2022 - 11:00 am EST
Conference panel: 5G Edge and Cloud Innovation for Government, Enterprise and SMB
The 21st Annual Canadian Telecom Summit - Tuesday, November 2022 - 1:30-2:30 pm EST
Conference presentation: Manageability Powers Virtualized Deployment of SD-WAN and SASE
SD-WAN and SASE summit - Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - 6:10 am EST
Lunch-n-learn on NFV and virtualization
Schneider Electric - Tuesday, November 8, 2022 - noon EST
Webinar: Why managed services should be delivered on edge cloud
GoToWebinar - November 3, 2022 - 11:00 am EDT
Webinar: Celebrating ten years of NFV
GoToWebinar - October 13, 2022 - 11:00 am EDT
Webinar: Intro to ADVA’s NFV management and orchestration (MANO)
GoToWebinar - September 1, 2022 - 11:00 am EDT
Webinar: Intro to virtualization with NFV, uCPE and edge cloud
GoToWebinar - August 4, 2022 - 11:00 am EDT
Webinar: Ensemble Software-as-a-service (SaaS) MANO
GoToWebinar - June 22, 2022 - 11:00 am EDT
Video - 2022 predictions: 5G Infrastructure, Cloud-Centric, Multi-Cloud, and the Edge
Converge! Network Digest and AvidThink - January 11, 2022
2021
Presentation - The Value of a Truly Universal uCPE for SD-WAN and SASE
SD-WAN and SASE 2021 - December 15, 2021 - 16:30 CET
Podcast - Six strategies for uCPE success
The Net Works series on SoundCloud - December 1, 2021
Video - TIP testimonial (at 1:34:28)
TIP Insights - November 22, 2021
Conference video: How Edge Computing is Shaping the Future of Data Centres
NGON & DCI World - November 18, 2021 - 11:40-12:00 CET
Conference video: Why ADVA participates in TIP (at 1:34:30)
TIP Insights 2021- November 18, 2021
Webinar: The Latest Real-World uCPE Deployments
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - 2:00 pm EDT
Panelists:
- Prayson Pate - SVP Solutions Marketing and CTO Edge Cloud, ADVA
- Brian Vah Voorhis - Director Product Line Management Edge Cloud
Webinar: SmartWAN - Expanding uCPE with Secure Hybrid Networking
Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 11:00 am EDT
Panelists:
- Prayson Pate - SVP Solutions Marketing and CTO Edge Cloud, ADVA
- Emre Eraltan - Solutions Architect Director, 6WIND
Hamilton-Barnes Podcast: "The route to networking"
Episode 2 - July 29, 2021 - Spotify and Apple Podcasts
2020
Webinar: "Virtualization: the new norm, delivering real-world benefits"
Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 4:30 p.m. CEST
Panelists:
- Prayson Pate - SVP Solutions Marketing and CTO Edge Cloud, ADVA
- Karsten Geise - Head of Business & Product Development, dacoso
- Emre Eraltan - Solutions Architect Director, 6WIND
Webinar: "Using uCPE to power today’s services and tomorrow’s innovation"
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 11 a.m. ET (5 p.m. CET)
Panelists:
- Prayson Pate, CTO, Edge Cloud, ADVA
- Mirko Voltolini, global head of network on demand, Colt Technology Services
Webinar: "Virtualization and the Edge in the Roaring 20s"
IEEE Netsoft virtual conference - July 2, 2020 - 9:15 am EDT
Moderator: Larry Horner, Intel
Panelists:
- Prayson Pate - SVP Solutions Marketing and CTO Packet Edge
- Amit Tiwari - Vice-President Strategic Alliances & Systems Engineering - Affirmed Networks
- Martin Taylor - CTO - Metaswitch
- Rohit Arora - Enterprise Architect - HPE
- Ian Hood - Chief Technologist - Red Hat
Webinar: "NFV is Winning!"
January 21, 2020 - BrightTALK
Podcast - "Easy Deployment of Enterprise-Edge IOT Services - Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights episode 249"
January 14, 2020 - Intel Network Builders
2019
Podcast - "Accelerating NFV deployments with Prayson Pate at the London Symposium"
December 11, 2019 - The Net Works series on SoundCloud
Conference panel - "Tackling the Challenges of uCPE Mass Deployment"
MEF19 - Tuesday November 19 - 4:50-5:30 pm
Moderator: Charlie Reed, Partner, ATLANTIC-ACM
- John Isch, Director Connectivity Solutions, Orange Business Services
- Eitan Schwartz, VP, Service Provider Line of Business, North America, RAD
- Prayson Pate, CTO, Edge Cloud, ADVA
Talking Edge Cloud and NFV success
YouTube - October 24, 2019
Conference presentation - "Infinite possibilities with uCPE – Where do we stand today? An industry update"
ADVA Symposium - London - October 17, 2019 - 2:30 pm
Conference presentation - "Stop the intruders at the door"
IBM Think Summit - London - October 16, 2019 - 3:00 pm
Conference panel - "uCPE Opportunities, Challenges, and Delivery"
Intel Network Builders - NFV and SDN World Congress - Den Haag - October 14, 2019 - 14:20-14:50
Moderator: Cuneyt Yucel, System Integrator Development Manager, Network Transformation, at Intel
Speakers:
- Prayson Pate, CTO Edge Cloud at ADVA
- Valerio Martini, EMEA Lead Field Architect at Dell
- Mark Iskra, Technical Marketing Director for Nokia's Nuage Networks
- Fortinet (awaiting speaker)
Conference presentation - "Edge Cloud: Where do we stand today? – Where do we stand today? An industry update"
ADVA Symposium - Munich - October 10, 2019 - 2:30 pm
Video - "Outlaws & Bandits & NFV"
Light Reading - September 30, 2019
Conference panel - "Implementing NFV 2.0: The Next Tech of NFV"
Network Virtualization and SDN Americas - Dallas - September 19, 2019 - 3:30 pm
Moderator: Jim Hodges, Chief Analyst, Heavy Reading
- Jim Hodges, Chief Analyst, Cloud & Security, Heavy Reading
- Prajakta Joshi, Senior Product Manager and Telco Networking Lead, Google Cloud
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer of Edge Cloud, ADVA
- Sue Rudd, Director, Strategy Analytics
- Sanjay Srinivasan, Vice President and Chief Architect, Vonage
Conference presentation - "uCPE: the platform is the killer app"
Network Virtualization and SDN Americas - Dallas - September 18, 2019 - 3:15 pm
Intel Periscope Video: "Edge Cloud Advances with ADVA Optical Marketing"
September 17, 2019
Conference panel - "How Intel® Select Solutions for uCPE is revolutionizing the network transformation at the Edge"
Network Virtualization and SDN Americas - Dallas - September 17, 2019 - 4:10 pm
- Joe Baeumel, VP, Business Development, KGPCo
- Eric van Vliet, Business Development Manager, Advantech
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer of Edge Cloud, ADVA
Conference presentation - "Making edge cloud a reality"
AusNOG 2019 - Melbourne, AU - September 6, 2019 - 2:40 pm
Webinar - "PREMIER uCPE Solutions"
BrightTalk - August 27, 2019 - 11:00 am EDT
- Mike Neff, AVP Virtualized Solutions & Biz Dev., KGPCo
- Pate Prayson CTO of Edge Cloud at ADVA
Webinar - "Who’s Providing Your uCPE Equipment?"
ON24 - July 18, 2019 - noon EDT
- Chris Reece - Host & Technologist, Award Solutions
- Mory Lin - Senior Director, IoT / Embedded Products, Supermicro
- Prayson Pate, CTO, ADVA Edge Cloud
Webinar - "uCPE: Revolutionising the Network Edge with Colt"
ON24 - July 15, 2019 - 10:00 am EDT
- Matthew Partridge - Technical Sales Consultant
- Sultan Shaikh - Product Manager, Colt
- Prayson Pate, CTO, ADVA Edge Cloud
Webinar - "Achieving uCPE success with ADVA and Intel"
BrightTalk - May 21, 2019 - 11:00 am EDT
- Prayson Pate, CTO, ADVA Edge Cloud
- Sab Gosal, Channel Mgmt, Communications Infrastructure Devices, Intel
Webinar - "Virtualizing Next-Generation Access Beyond SD-WAN"
SDxCentral - May 14, 2019 - 1:00 pm EDT
- Bob Yee, Head of SD-WAN Product Marketing, Dell EMC
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer, ADVA Edge Cloud
Webinar - "Secure SD-WAN without vendor lock-in. The open IBM and ADVA way."
IBM - May 14, 2019 - 10:00 am EDT
- Andre Goude - IBM Business Development Specialist Infrastructure Services
- Prayson Pate - CTO ADVA Edge Cloud
- Thomas Schneider - Director Business Development Enterprise ADVA
- Christoph Schwaiger - IBM Global ADVA Alliance Executive
Intel Chip Chat Podcast - "ADVA Ensemble Connector Powers Edge Cloud - Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights episode 202"
Intel Network Builders - May 7, 2019
Conference Presentation - "Universal CPE: gateway to innovation for the edge cloud"
Network Transformation Congress - San Jose CA - April 30, 2019 - 14:00-14:45
Webinar: "Speed, Economy and Efficiency: Advantages of uCPE for Service Delivery"
BrightTalk - March 5, 2019 - 10:00 am ET
- Mirko Voltolini, Colt
- Prayson Pate, ADVA Optical Networking
- Nils Ujma, Check Point Software
Intel Periscope Video: "@PraysonPate from @ADVAOpticalNews discusses uCPE at #MWC #IntelBuilders"
February 27, 2019 - MWC 2019 - Barcelona Spain
2018
Conference presentation - "NFV: Using the cloud to deliver the cloud"
Futurecom - October 16, 2018 - 16:20 - 16:50
Symposium panel - "Arriving in the new world: Virtualization becomes reality"
ADVA customer symposium - October 11, 2018 - 11:45 - 12:30
Moderator - Prayson Pate, CTO Ensemble division, ADVA
Panelists: Christoph Schwaiger, IBM
Lunchtime discussion - "Which is better for NFV: VMs or containers?"
SDN NFV World Congress - The Hague, Netherlands - October 10, 2018 - 13:00-14:40
Conference panel - "Can SD-WAN Live Up to Its Potential?"
SDN NFV World Congress - The Hague, Netherlands - October 9, 2018 - 17:00-17:40
Moderated by: Franck Chevalier | Co-Head of Technology Consulting | Analysys Mason
Panelists:
- Prayson Pate | CTO, Ensemble | ADVA Optical Networking
- Phil Kippen | Sr. Director, NFV Group | VMware
- Oren Marmur | VP, Head of NFV, Amdocs Open Networks | Amdocs
- Wim Henderickx | Director Consulting Engineering & PLM - Technology | Nokia Fellow | Bell Labs
- Kevin Wade | Sr. Director | Ciena
Conference Presentation - "Putting the M in MANO"
NFV and Carrier SDN - Denver - September 26, 2018 -10:30 am-10:50 am
Conference Panel - "SD-WAN 2.0: Defining Service Provider Business Models for Success"
NFV and Carrier SDN - Denver - September 25, 2018 - 4:05pm-4:55pm
Moderator: Sterling Perrin - Principal Analyst, Optical Networking & Transport, Heavy Reading
Panelists:
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technical Officer, Ensemble, ADVA Optical Networking
- Kevin Sahim, VP, Engineering (Managed Services), GTT
- Jeff Lewis, Vice President, Data Product Management, Comcast Business
- Aaron Tomosky - Head of Professional Services, QOS Networks
- Rami Yaron - Board Director & Co-Chair, MEF
Intel Periscope Video - "Industry expert @praysonpate, CTO Ensemble @ADVAOpticalNews discusses monetization of network"
NFV and Carrier SDN - Denver - September 24, 2018
Conference Panel - "Packet Acceleration for CoSP Workloads"
NFV and Carrier SDN - Denver - September 24, 2018 - 3:45pm-4:15pm
Moderator: Larry Horner, Solution Architect, Intel
Panelists:
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technical Officer, Ensemble, ADVA Optical Networking
- James Feger - General Manager - Service Provider, F5 Networks
- Bryan Monaghan - Red Hat
- Al Sanders - HPE
Webinar - "uCPE: deploy, operationalize and monetize NFV at scale"
Telecoms Radar - August 6, 2018
Conference Presentation - "NFV: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"
infoShare - Gdansk, Poland - May 22, 2018 - 11:15-13:15
Conference Panel - "Securing the Edge"
BCE - Austin, TX - May 15, 2018 - 2:10 pm-3:10 pm
Moderator: Jim Hodges, Principal Analyst – Cloud & Security,
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technical Officer, Ensemble, ADVA Optical Networking
- Lakshmi Kandadai, Head of Service Provider Marketing & Strategy, A10 Networks
- Csaba Kiss Kallo, Head of Connectivity, Mobility and Security Portfolio, Vodafone
- Steven Shalita, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Pluribus Networks
- James Thomson, Solution Architect, F5 Networks
Conference Panel - "How Open Source Is Reshaping the Telecom Sector"
BCE - Austin, TX - May 15, 2018 - 9:55 am-10:50 am
Moderator: Ray Le Maistre, Editor in Chief, Light Reading
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technical Officer, Ensemble, ADVA Optical Networking
- Jim Fagan, Director, Global Platforms, Telstra
- James Feger, Vice President of Network Virtualization, CenturyLink
- Heather Kirksey, VP, Community and Ecosystem Development, Networking, The Linux Foundation
- Csaba Kiss Kallo, Head of Connectivity, Mobility and Security Portfolio, Vodafone
Conference Presentation - "Enhancing the security of SD-WAN"
NFV & Zero Touch World Congress - San Jose, CA - April 26, 2018 - 12:20-12:40
Lunchtime discussion - "Securing uCPE Deployments"
NFV & Zero Touch World Congress - San Jose, CA - April 26, 2018 - 13:00-14:00
Conference Presentation - "Securing Multi-Cloud Applications"
MPLS+SDN+NFV World - Paris, France - April 12, 2018 - 14:20-14:40
Lunchtime Discussion - "How do you balance security and automation for zero touch at the customer site?"
Zero Touch & Carrier Automation Congress - Madrid, Spain - March 22, 2018 - 13:00
Conference Panel - "Zero Touch & Carrier Automation Innovation"
Zero Touch & Carrier Automation Congress - Madrid, Spain - March 21, 2018 - 17:20
Moderated by: Michael Howard | Sr. Research Director & Advisor, Carrier Networks | IHS Markit
Panelists:
- Prayson Pate | CTO, Ensemble | ADVA Optical Networking
- Bart Vanbrabant | Co-founder & CTO | Inmanta
Podcast – “Universal CPE - Intel® Chip Chat: Network Insights episode 138”
Intel Chip Chat with Allyson Klein - February 20, 2018 - Intel Network Builders - SoundCloud
2017
Webinar - "Realizing the Value of NFV with Universal Customer Premises Equipment (uCPE)"
BrightTalk - December 7, 2017 - 11:00 am ET
- Vickie Lonker - Executive Director of Network & Virtual Solutions, Verizon
- Prayson Pate - CTO, Ensemble, ADVA Optical Networking
- Nicolas Thomas - NFV Pioneer, Fortinet
Video "SD-WAN -- Threat or Opportunity?"
Converge! Network Digest - December 5, 2017
Conference Panel - "The Meteoric Rise of SD-WAN: Vendor Perspectives"
MEF17 - Orlando, Florida - November 14, 2017 - 4:30pm - 5:15pm
Moderator: Roopa Honnachari, Industry Director, Business Communications Services & Cloud Computing, ICT, Frost & Sullivan
- Prayson Pate, CTO Ensemble, ADVA Optical Networking
- Jonathan Forest, VP of Enterprise Products and Markets, InfoVista
- Nav Chander, Sr. Director, Service Provider Marketing, Silver Peak
- Shehzad Karkhanawala, Director of Marketing, Aryaka Networks
Conference Panel - “Industry Challenges and Initiatives”
SDN NFV World Congress - The Hague, NL - Friday, October 13th, 2017 / 12:15-12:45
Moderated by: Abel Tong - Representative MEF - Sr. Director of Solutions Marketing, Ciena
- Prayson Pate - CTO, Ensemble, ADVA Optical Networking
- Johan Witters - RPLM SD-WAN bussdev, Nokia
- Randy Levensalor - Lead Architect, Cloud and Managed Services, CableLabs
- Gert Vanderstraeten - Network Architect, Microsoft
Conference Presentation - "Don't Use Hardware-Based Appliances for Software Defined WAN"
SDN NFV World Congress - The Hague, NL - Tuesday, October 10th / 16:00-16:20
Keynote: "Network Virtualization Simplified"
NFV & Carrier SDN 2017 - Westminster CO - Thursday, September 28, 2017 / 9:20-9:40
Conference Panel: "Achieving Carrier- Grade NFV Performance"
NFV & Carrier SDN 2017 - Westminster CO - Thursday, September 28, 2017 / 2:30-3:30
Moderator: Roz Roseboro, Senior Analyst, Telco Data Center, Heavy Reading
Panelists:
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer, Ensemble, ADVA Optical Networking
- Kevin Riley, VP, Engineering and Chief Technology Officer, Sonus
- Ted Studwell, Senior Vice President, Virtela - An NTT Communications Company
- Pravin Mirchandani, Chief Marketing Officer, OneAccess Networks
Conference Panel: "Getting to "Cloud-Native"
NFV & Carrier SDN 2017 - Westminster CO - Wednesday, September 27, 2017 / 4:15-5:15
Moderator: Roz Roseboro, Senior Analyst, Telco Data Center, Heavy Reading
Panelists
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer, Ensemble, ADVA Optical Networking
- Doug Nassaur, General Manager, Lead Principal Technical Architect, AT&T
- Shubh Agarwal, SVP, Strategic Marketing, Metaswitch
- Matt Goldberg, Vice President, Global Strategic Solutions, SevOne
- Stefan Vallin, Director of Product Strategy, Netrounds
Conference Panel: "Interoperability and Standards"
NFV & Carrier SDN 2017 - Westminster CO - Tuesday, September 26, 2017 / 4:45-5:30
Moderator - Pankur Agarwal, Strategic Planner, Intel
Panelists
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer, Ensemble, ADVA Optical Networking
- Glenn Booth, VP, Marketing, Dimetis
- Tetsuya Murakami, Chief Technology Officer, IP Infusion
Conference Panel - "SD-WAN Evolution Strategies: From Appliance-Based to Integrated NFV"
SD-WAN Strategies for Success - Dallas, TX - Tuesday, June 6 2017 / 9:40 am-10:40 am
MODERATOR: Sterling Perrin - Senior Analyst - Heavy Reading
PANELISTS
- Prayson Pate - Chief Technical Officer, Ensemble - ADVA Optical Networking
- Jim Sabey - Head of USA BT Connect & Compute Sales Specialists - BT Americas
- Kelly Ahuja - CEO & President - Versa Networks
- Ramesh Prabagaran - VP of Product Management & Marketing - Viptela
Video - "Open & Multivendor uCPE From ADVA"
Light Reading - May 30, 2017
Conference Panel - "How can SDN effectively tackle real-time change with performance monitoring solutions?"
Network Virtualization Europe - Madrid - May 30, 2017 / 16:30-17:00
Moderator: Dr Michael Fritsch - Independent Consultant
- Prayson Pate - CTO, Ensemble, a Division of ADVA Optical Networking
- Juan Fernandez-Palacios - Head of Unit on "Core Netwok Evolution", Telefonica i+d GCTO unit
- Cyril Doussau - Senior Director, Service Assurance Products and Markets, InfoVista
- Lukasz Mendyk - SDN/NFV Product Manager, Comarch
- Iain Wilkinson - Principal Enterprise Architect - Resource Management - Systems Architecture Centre Of Excellence, Vodafone Group
Conference Panel - "Solving Deployment Challenges in order to Scale Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Adoption"
Intel Network Builders at Network Virtualization Europe - Madrid - May 29, 2017 / 11:05 am
Moderator: Chandresh Ruparel - Intel Network Builders Director, Intel
Panel:
- Prayson Pate - CTO, Ensemble, a Division of ADVA Optical Networking
- Peter Marek - Senior Director x86 Solutions NCG, Advantech
- Avi Dorfman - CTO, TelcoSystems
- Paul Stevens - Marketing Director Telecom Sector, Advantech
- Damian Murray - Sales Director, Iricent
- Eyal Cohen - Director, Business Development, Silicom
- Conor Hogan - Senior Strategic Product Manager SPO, Huawei
Video - "Stop talking the talk and start walking the walk"
TelecomTV - May 22, 2017
Conference Panel - "Is NFV-I (Finally) Ready For Prime Time?"
BCE - Austin, TX - May 16, 2017 - 2:15 pm - 3:05 pm
Moderated by: Roz Roseboro - Senior Analyst, Telco Data Center - Heavy Reading
Panelists:
- Prayson Pate - Chief Technical Officer, Ensemble - ADVA Optical Networking
- Charlie Ashton - Senior Director of Business Development - Wind River
- Jim Sabey - Head of USA BT Connect & Compute Sales Specialists - BT Americas
- Matt Goldberg - Vice President, Global Strategic Solutions - SevOne
Conference Presentation - "Making NFV Easy"
NFV World Congress - San Jose, CA - May 4, 2017 - 14:00-14:20 - Video
Lunchtime Discussion Table - "Can service providers leverage open source MANO implementations?"
NFV World Congress - San Jose, CA - May 3, 2017 - 13:10-14:10
Video - "What's the Biggest Challenge for Operators Migrating to NFV?"
ADVA YouTube Channel - May 3, 2017
Conference Panel - "Evolving Hybrid WAN & SD-WAN and The Road to Virtualized Managed Services"
NFV World Congress - San Jose, CA - May 2, 2017 - 11:55-12:25
Moderated by: Abel Tong | Sr. Director of Marketing | Ciena
Panelists:
- Christos Kolias | Sr. Research Scientist & Principal | Orange
- Prayson Pate | CTO, Ensemble | ADVA Optical Networking
- Ralph Santitoro | Head of SDN/NFV Solutions Practice | Fujitsu Network Communications / Distinguished Fellow & Director, MEF
Conference Presentation - "Making NFV Easy"
INCOMPAS - New Orleans - April 4, 2017 - 12:50-13:05
Conference Presentation - "Selecting Best of Breed for NFVI"
MPLS+SDN+NFV World Conference - Paris - March 23, 2017 - 15:40-16:00
Video - "Why Do Customers Care About NFV?"
ADVA YouTube Channel - February 20, 2017
Webinar - "Implementing SD-WAN: The Differentiation Drivers"
Light Reading Webinar - February 2, 2017
Video - "Ensemble SmartWAN Explained"
Light Reading - January 5, 2017
2016
Podcast -"Building a Better SD-WAN"
Intel Chip Chat - December 7, 2016
Video - "An architecture for virtualisation must be open, extensible and, above all, real"
TelecomTV - December 1, 2016
Video - "NFV Simplified"
Light Reading - November 4, 2016
Video - "Ensemble Analytics Explained"
ADVA YouTube Channel - November 1, 2016
Video - "Ensemble Director Explained"
ADVA YouTube Channel - October 25, 2016
Conference Presentation - "SD-WAN 2.0: Building A Better SD-WAN"
INCOMPASS Fall - Dallas, TX - Monday, October 24 - 1:30pm - 2:00pm
Video - "What is Cloud in a Box?"
ADVA YouTube Channel - October 21, 2016
Conference Presentation and Video - "SD-WAN 2.0: Building A Better SD-WAN"
SDN World Congress - The Hague - Wednesday October 12, 2016 - 14:50 - Slides - Video
Video - "Ensemble Controller Explained"
ADVA YouTube Channel - October 11, 2016
Conference Presentation - "Performance Assurance for Cloud Applications"
Network Virtualization & SDN Asia - Singapore - Wednesday, September 28 - 13:05-13:25
Conference Track Chairman - Network Virtualization and SDN - Day 1
Network Virtualization & SDN Asia - Singapore - Tuesday, September 27 - 11:45 - 17:50
Video - "Why Is Choice Important for VNF Hosting?"
ADVA YouTube Channel - September 20, 2016
Video - "What Are the Benefits of vCPE?"
ADVA YouTube Channel - September 16, 2016
Conference Panel - "Making Sense of the MANO"
NFV & Carrier SDN - Denver, CO - Tuesday, September 13 - 3:15 PM - 4:05 PM
Moderator: Jim Hodges - Senior Analyst - Core Network Evolution and Analytics, Heavy Reading
Speakers:
- Margaret T. Chiosi - Network Architect, Formerly AT&T
- Rick Mashburn - Senior Director of Carrier & Service Provider Systems Engineering, Fortinet
- Simon Osborne - CTO Service Orchestration, Comptel
- Prayson Pate - CTO, Ensemble, ADVA Optical Networking
- Anthony Soong - Scientist, Wireless Research & Standards, US; Head, Open Source Networking, Huawei Technologies USA
Video - "What is the Future of SD-WAN?"
ADVA YouTube Channel - September 9, 2016
Video - "Ensemble Orchestrator Explained"
ADVA YouTube Channel - September 1, 2016
Video - "Ensemble Connector Explained"
ADVA YouTube Channel - August 19, 2016
Video - "Ensemble Explained"
ADVA YouTube Channel - August 5, 2016
Video - "Ensemble Harmony Ecosystem Explained"
ADVA YouTube Channel - July 25, 2016
Conference Presentation: "Forget the Layers: NFV is about Dynamism"
NGON - Nice, France - July 1, 2016 - 10:20-10:40 am - slides
Video - "Exploring Verizon's NFV Strategy (Part 2)"
ADVA YouTube Channel - June 22, 2016
Video - "ADVA & EANTC Discuss Superior Ensemble Performance"
Light Reading - June 13, 2016
Video - "Exploring Verizon's NFV Strategy (Part 1)"
ADVA YouTube Channel - June 10, 2016
Conference Panel Moderator - "NFV and SDN Skills and Organizations"
TIA Network of the Future - Dallas TX - June 7, 2016 - 3:00-4:15 pm
Moderator: Prayson Pate, CTO, Ensemble Division, ADVA Optical Networking
- Tim Naramore, Chief Technology Officer, Masergy
- Matt Bateman, Vanguard Network Architect, XO Communications
- Pierre-Olivier Mathys, Industry Solutions Director, Telecommunications, Red Hat
Video - "Advice to CSPs: use the cloud to deliver the cloud"
TelecomTV - June 2, 2016
Video - "Update from NV & SDN Europe"
Intel Periscope - June 2, 2016
Conference Presentation - "Deploying Virtualized Services over Legacy Networks"
Network Virtualization & SDN Europe - Madrid - June 1, 2016 - 16:20-16:40
Video - "Leading Lights 2016 Highlights"
Light Reading - May 25, 2016
Conference Panel -"Developing An NFV-I - Best of Breed or Integrated?"
Big Communications Event (BCE) - Austin TX - May 24, 2016 - 3:15-4:05 PM
Moderator: Roz Roseboro, Senior Analyst, Telco Data Center, Heavy Reading
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer, Ensemble Division, ADVA Optical Networking
- Bryan Larish, Distinguished Member, Technical Staff, Verizon SDN/NFV Architecture Planning
- Vijay Venugopal, Director, Product Management, Cisco
- Drew Schulke, Executive Director, Dell Networking
- Frank Schapel, SDN & NFV Telecom Solution Marketing, Intel
Conference Panel - "Real-world NFV progress report"
TM Forum Live - Nice - May 9, 2016 - 16:55
Moderator: Elias Aravantinos, Prinicipal Analyst, Practice Lead, Mobility and Wireless Technologies, ACG Research
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer, Ensemble Software Business Unit, ADVA Optical Networking
- Dr Eyal Felstaine, Vice President - Head of Amdocs' Next Generation OSS & Network Cloud Services Orgnisation, Amdocs
- Anil Rao, Senior Analyst & Lead Analyst Service Assurance Research, Analysys Mason
- Dave Dugal, Founder / Managing Director, Enterprise Web
Conference Presentation - "Leveraging NFV Infrastructure to Drive Revenue"
NFV World Congress - San Jose, CA - April 21, 2016 - 16:05 - Video
Guest Lecture - "Network Functions Virtualization: Bringing the Cloud to the Network"
ECE 592 - High Performance Cloud Service - NCSU - Raleigh, NC - March 17, 2016
Video - "Making the Test: ADVA Ensemble Connector vs. Open vSwitch"
Light Reading - February 4, 2016
Conference Panel - "Business Case for SDN/NFV"
PTC 16 - Honolulu Hawaii - January 19, 2016
Moderator: Garret Yoshimi, VP, Information Technology & CIO, University of Hawaii
- Prayson Pate, CTO, Overture Networks
- Paul Gampe, CTO, IIX Inc.
- Chris Liou, Fellow & VP, Network Strategy, Infinera Corporation
- Glenn Stern, VP, Regional Operations, CALIENT Technologies
Meetup Presentation - "NFV: Pure play virtualization & achieving high performance NFV Carrier Ethernet"
Triangle Cloud Networking Meetup - January 7, 2016 - Cisco Systems, RTP
- Prayson Pate, CTO, Overture Networks
- Billy McFall, Staff Engineer, Overture
- Ian Miller - Staff Engineer, Overture
2015
Conference Panel - "Where are we now and what have we achieved?"
Network Virtualization Asia - Singapore - December 2, 2015 - 10:00-10:45
- Prayson Pate, CTO, Overture Network
- Anuradha Udunuwara, Innovation Engineer, Sri Lanka Telecom
- Shahar Steiff, AVP New Technologies, PCCW Global
Conference Presentation - "Pure Play Virtualization"
Network Virtualization Asia - Singapore - December 2, 2015 - 16:00-16:30Conference Session Chairman - Day 2
Network Virtualization Asia - Singapore - December 3, 2015
Conference Panel - "NFV-Based Virtual CPE Strategies & Deployment Options For Enhancing CE 2.0 Services And Supporting Service Innovation"
MEF GEN15 - Dallas TX - November 17, 2015 - 16:25-17:15
Moderator: Ralph Santitoro, MEF Distinguished Fellow; Director of Solutions Architecture, Fujitsu Network Communications
- Prayson Pate, CTO, Overture Networks
- Kevin McBride, Principal Architect, Adaptive Platforms Strategy & Development, CenturyLink
- Scott Sumner, VP Solutions Development & Marketing, Accedian Networks
- Yuri Gittik, Head of Strategic Development and Innovation, RAD
Technology Roundtable - "Combining LSO, Carrier SDN, And NFV To Generate New Revenue & Drive Business Transformation"
MEF GEN15 - Dallas, TX - November 17, 2015 - 11:35-12:25
Moderator: Stan Hubbard, GEN15 Program Director
- Prayson Pate, CTO, Overture Networks
- Anthony Peres, IP Routing Product and Solution Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
- Simon Spraggs, CTO and Distinguished Consulting Engineer, Service Provider, Cisco
Conference Keynote - "No Shortcuts Needed on the Drive to Pure-Play Virtualization"
Next Generation Network Components 2015 - Santa Clara, CA - November 5, 2015 - 14:25-14:50
Video - "The Transformation Taking Place"
MEF GEN15 Videos - November 3, 2015
Video - "Will NFV inevitably grow its own SDN capabilities?"
TelecomTV - October 27, 2015
Panelists:
- Heather Kirksey, Director, OPNFV
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer, Overture Networks
- Andrew Coward, VP Service Provider Strategy, Brocade
- Vinay Saxena, HP Fellow Communications Solutions Business HP
Conference Presentation -"First pure-play NFV deployment with Masergy"
SDN and OpenFlow World Conference - Dusseldorf - October 14, 2015 - 16:00-16:25 - Video
Conference Presentation - "The Third Network: LSO, SDN and NFV"
SDN Asia 2015 - Singapore - October 7, 2015 - 17:00-17:30
Conference Panel - "Status of NFV/SDN transformation in 2015/2016"
SDN Asia 2015 - Singapore - October 6, 2015 - 17:00-17:30
Modertor: Guang Yang, Senior Analyst, Wireless Operator Strategies, Strategy Analytics
- Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Overture
- Emmanuel Roger, VP, Asia Pacific & Japan, Qosmos
- Matthew Kim, Vice President of Sales, Asia, 6WIND
Video - "Overture 65vSE - It's A Server!"
Overture Networks TV Channel on YouTube - September 4, 2014
Webinar - "NFV Just Got Real!"
BrightTALK - July 14, 2015
Conference Panel - "The Implications of NFV MANO: Orchestrating the Hybrid Network"
BTE - Chicago - June 9, 2015 - 14:00-14:50 - Summary in Light reading
- Caroline Chappell (moderator) - Principal Analyst, Cloud and NFV, Heavy Reading
- Prayson Pate - CTO and co-founder, Overture
- Axel Clauberg - VP of Aggr., Transport, IP (CTO-ATI) & Fixed Access (CTO-FIA), Deutsche Telekom
- Hervé Guesdon - VP Engineering and CTO, UBIqube
- Nirav Modi - Director of Software Innovations, Cyan
Video - "Virtual Or Reality? SDN, NFV and Carrier Ethernet … Beyond The Hype"
ThirdNetworkNews - June 2, 2015 - 22:00 mark in video
Conference Panel - "Status of NFV/SDN transformation in 2015"
Network Virtualization and SDN World - London - May 27, 2015 - video (0:48 mark)
- Glen Ragoonanan (moderator) - Principal Analyst, Analysys Mason
- Prayson Pate - CTO, overture Networks
- Erik Larsson - VP Marketing, Qosmos
- Charlie Ashton - director of Business development, Wind River
- Stanley Ogbeide - senior network Engineer, iconnect
- Constantine Polychronopoulos - VP & CTO, Service Provider Platforms, Citrix
- Andreas Lemke - Marketing Lead, CloudBand NFV Platform, Alcatel-Lucent
Conference Presentation - Overture and Brocade
Network Virtualization and SDN World - London - May 26, 2015
Virtualization 100
Network Virtualization and SDN World - London - May 26, 2015 - video (1:47 mark)
Conference Chairman, Day 2
VNF Management and Orchestration - Barcelona - April 29, 2015
Conference Panel - "Management Challenges Operators Face when Introducing NFV"
VNF Management and Orchestration - Barcelona - April 29, 2015- 12:20-13:00
PJ Parker-Johnson (moderator) - Practice Lead, Cloud Computing and Virtual Infrastructure Technologies, ACG Research
- Prayson Pate - CTO, Overture
- Jose Bonnet - Senior Technical Consultant, PT Inovacao
- Ashay Chaudhary - Lead Cloud Architect, Verizon
Conference Panel - "Ethernet Services Migration to LSO, SDN and NFV"
VNF Management and Orchestration - Barcelona - April 29, 2015 - 14.40-15.15
Daniel Bar-Lev (moderator) - Director Certification/Strategic programs, MEF | Director CloudEthernet Forum
- Prayson Pate - CTO, Overture
- Antonio Elizondo - Senior Technology Expert at Telefónica I+D, Telefonica
- Anuradha Udunuwara - Seasoned Telecom & Technology Expert, Sri Lanka Telecom
- Philippe Lalande - Industry Collaborations, Oracle
Conference Panel - "Business Reality: Delivering on the Promise of Software" (STC-04)
Software Telco Congress 2015 - Miami Beach - January 28, 2015Allison Boccamazzo (Moderator) - Managing Content Producer, Content Boost TMC
- Prayson Pate - CTO - Overture
- Russ Coffin - Strategic Architect, America Core Network Product Mgmt Huawei Technologies USA
- Carlos Molina - Director of Marketing Strategy - Mavenir
- Prabhu Ramachandran - Director WebNMS
Conference Panel - "Cloud Services or Carrier Equipment: Which Should Service Providers Buy?" (SP-05)
ITExpo 2015 - Miami Beach - January 27, 2015
Moderator: Jeff Dworkin
- Prayson Pate - CTO - Overture
- Barry Derrick - ADTRAN
- Alan Rihm - CEO - CoreDial
Presentation - "NFV Gets Real"
Wind River Sales Meeting - January 19, 2015 - San Francisco