Name : Sergio Catanzariti
Designation : Director, Network Architecture
Company Name : Orange Silicon Valley
Bio : Title: Orange Silicon Valley, Director, Network Architecture
Computer Science graduate from University of Pisa, moved into the Valley in the early ninety working on ATM and broadband networking technology at a local company, then moved being one of the first employees at the Orange innovation center in the Bay Area where he actually manages the program activities related to network architecture and services evolution (SDN, CDN, network virtualization, etc.). He is member of the advisory panel of the SDN world congress. His main hobbies are philosophy and classic Italian singing.
Topic: SDN in the Telecommunication Service Provider space
Abstract:The talk will give an overview of SDN applicability in the Telco service provider space, summarizing issues, challenges, use cases and some on-going developments. It will also addresse briefly similar initiatives like network function virtualization.