NEW YORK, May 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Major thought
leaders from every segment of the communications industry will
converge in Chicago June 9-10 for Light Reading's Big Telecom Event
(BTE), sharing their visions for the massive network and IT
transformation currently taking place.
The convergence of network and IT, the rise of virtualization
and the cloud, and the need for new business models and revenue
streams are all very much on the minds of the thousands of
communications professionals who will be on hand to hear the latest
insights from those leading the charge at both traditional telecom
service providers and newer convergence players.
Technology gurus including Andre
Fuetsch of AT&T, Axel
Clauberg of Deutsche Telekom, Randy
Nicklas of Windstream and Jack
Waters of Level 3 Communications will be sharing the stage
with cloud pioneers such as Jared
Wray of CenturyLink Cloud, and Web 2.0 tech leaders
including Bikash Koley of Google.
The open source community will be well-represented by Dan Pitt, executive director of the Open
Networking Foundation, and Neela
Jacques, executive director of Open Daylight.
And top technologists from Silicon Valley will also be sharing
their expertise, led by Kelly Ahuja
of Cisco, Sandra Rivera of Intel,
Christine Heckart of Brocade and
Prodip Sen of HP.
Wireless network operators including T-Mobile and cable
operators such as Comcast and Cox Communications will be
representing those industries as ubiquitous mobility and the
rapidly changing video distribution market come under close
scrutiny.
BTE's powerful speaker line-up reads like a who's who of network
gurus and industry luminaries. It includes:
- Andre Fuetsch, senior vice
president, Architecture & Design. AT&T
- Jack Waters, CTO, Level 3
Communications
- Bikash Koley, Principal
Architect & Manager, Network Architecture, Google
- Randy Nicklas, CTO,
Windstream
- Jared Wray, CTO, CenturyLink
Cloud
- Axel Clauberg, vice president,
Aggregation, Transport, IP & Fixed Access, Deutsche Telekom
AG
- Blair Levin, senior fellow,
Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
- Rusty Lhamon, director,
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Business, T-Mobile USA
- Colin Bannon, CTO, BT
Wholesale
- Jeremy Bye, vice president,
Carrier & Wholesale, Cox Business
- James Feger, vice president,
network strategy and development, CenturyLink
- Nicolas Fischbach, director of
strategy, Architecture and Innovation, Colt
- Fawaz Rasheed, managing
director, Global Security Solutions Engineering, Verizon Enterprise
Solutions
- Elad Nafshi, vice president of
Video Product Management, Comcast
- Jim Poole, vice president,
Global Service Providers, Equinix
In addition, speakers from Comlink, Integra, TDS Telecom and
other service providers will be participating, as will speakers
from multiple industry organizations including: ATIS, Integra, the
Open Platform for NFV, the Internet Society, 4G Americas, the
Competitive Carriers Association and the Intelligent Transportation
Society of America.
To view the complete BTE agenda, click here. To register to
attend, click here.
Cisco is the diamond sponsor; Brocade, HP and Intel are the
super platinum sponsors; Cyan, Fujitsu, NEC/Netcracker, Symantec,
VeEX and Wind River are platinum sponsors; 6WIND, Accedian
Networks, Accenture, ADVA Optical Networking, Advantech, Affirmed,
Allied Telesis, Allot Communications, Amdocs, Arista, Artesyn,
Brite:Bill, BTI, Canoga Perkins, Compass Networks, Coriant, Covata,
ECI Telecom, Ekinops, Fortinet, Genband, Harmonic, Hitachi, Imagine
Communications, Infinera, JDSU, Mellanox, MRV, Nakina Systems,
NetNumber, Nominum, Oracle, Overture, Packet Design, Palo Alto
Networks, Procera Networks, RAD, Radware, Redhat, Sandvine,
Spirent, Transition Networks and UBlqube are gold sponsors; Adlink,
Alianza, Benu Networks, DSI Systems, ENET, EXFO, INOC, iisy AG,
Omnitron Systems, Radisys, SevOne, Stratus Technologies, Taqua,
Telco Systems, Tianyi, Titan Photonics, Web NMS and XDK are demo
sponsors.
For more information, contact registration@lightreading.com.
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About Light Reading
Light
Reading (www.lightreading.com) combines its research-led
online communities and targeted events portfolio to help those in
the global communications industry make informed
decisions. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for telecom
analysis for more than 400,000 subscribers each month, leading the
media sector in terms of traffic, content and reputation. Light
Reading produces targeted communications events and focused one-day
conferences each year for cable, mobile and wireline executives
across five continents.
Media Contact:
Julie
Muroff
SVP, Operations & Events
muroff@lightreading.com
646-757-4684
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