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The Era Of The Software Defined Operator Is Here - Deutsche Telekom
Tells Broadband Forum
ST. JULIAN'S, Malta and FREMONT, Calif., March 13, 2014
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Simplification of IP, coupled with NFV and
SDN, is creating the Software Defined Operator - a new model for
service providers needing to meet the needs of unparalleled broadband
demand with agile, cost effective and fast implementation of new
services. That was the message given by Axel Clauberg Deutsche
Telekom's Vice President of Aggregation, Transport & IP Fixed Access
in a keynote address to the Broadband Forum in Malta last week.
Mr Clauberg demonstrated how Deutsche Telekom had provided end to end
optimization for a trial with Hrvatski Telekom in Croatia - a network
which had gone from a "go" decision to launch of a 100Gb/s network in
just three months, bringing network and Cloud technologies together
for service production. He also told his audience, comprising some of
the world's leading service providers, vendors and research
laboratories, that the Software Defined Operator would see changing
skill sets needed - for service providers, vendors and processes in
the supply chain, and it was critical for the Broadband Forum to keep
up their efforts evolving the connected home and collaborating on the
developments in SDN and NFV.
The forward looking keynote provided a thought-provoking end to an
opening day full of highlights and acknowledgments of success and
outstanding contributions to the Broadband Forum. The annual election
of directors saw Charles (Drew) Rexrode II of Verizon Communications
and Lincoln Lavoie of the University of New Hampshire Interoperability
Laboratory (UNH-IOL) elected to the Board, to serve alongside Frank
Van der Putten (Alcatel-Lucent), Kevin Foster (BT), David Sinicrope
(Ericsson), William Welch (Oracle), Marcin Drzymala (Orange), Mauro
Tilocca (Telecom Italia SpA), Tom Starr (AT&T), Lowell Lamb (Broadcom
Corporation), Manuel Paul (Deutsche Telekom), Sultan Dawood (Cisco
Systems Inc) and Les Brown (Huawei Technologies Corporation).
The Board meeting itself saw Kevin Foster appointed as Chairman, with
Tom Starr becoming President. David Sinicrope became a Vice President,
alongside Marcin Drzymala. Sultan Dawood was appointed as Secretary to
the Board and Frank Van der Putten as Treasurer.
There was recognition of individuals who have exceeded expectations in
their areas of work - known as the Circle of Excellence awards which
were made to Ken Kerpez of ASSIA for his input in empowering the
vectored VDSL2 specifications of the Forum, and to Balazs Varga of
Ericsson for his contributions to Small Cell extensions.
Three staff from Cisco Systems were presented with Outstanding
Contributor Awards, for their working group efforts - William Lupton,
Diane Patton and Yves Hertoghs. They were joined by Stefano Galli
(ASSIA), Dean Cheng (Huawei Technologies) and Frederic Klamm (Orange).
Retiring Andrew Malis was given a leadership award for his
longstanding service to the Board and there were also leadership
awards for Moti Morgenstern of ECI Telecom, Alessandro Capurso of
Telecom Italia and Dave Christophe of Alcatel-Lucent.
"It is important to acknowledge the work of our members, who provide
their expertise and commitment alongside very demanding senior full
time roles," said Broadband Forum CEO Robin Mersh.
"These are people who have made a major contribution to a world
approaching nearly 700 million lines of broadband and they will
continue to make a difference as the Forum evolves into new work areas
such as G.fast, Cloud, SDN, NFV and service chaining."
For more information about the Broadband Forum, please go to
http://www.broadband-forum.org or follow @Broadband_Forum on Twitter.
For further information please contact Brian Dolby on +44 (0) 7899
914168 or Dana Hare on +44 (0) 1636 812152 or send an email to
brian.dolby@proactive-pr.com or dana.hare@proactive-pr.com.
About the Broadband Forum Broadband Forum, a non-profit industry
organization, is focused on engineering smarter and faster broadband
networks. Our work defines best practices for global networks, enables
service and content delivery, establishes technology migration
strategies, engineers critical device & service management tools, and
is key to redefining broadband. Our free technical reports and white
papers can be found at www.broadband-forum.org. Twitter
@Broadband_Forum.
To see this press release, please visit:
http://www.broadband-forum.org/news/download/pressreleeases/2014/BBF\_1Q2014.pdf
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