AT&T's Margaret Chiosi Joins Keynote Lineup at NFV Everywhere Americas in Dallas

NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T's Margaret Chiosi, a leader in the virtualization effort, is joining executives from Cox Communications, Masergy, NTT Communications, Telefonica and Verizon at next week's NFV Everywhere Americas event in Dallas, sponsored by Light Reading. The two-day conference takes place September 16-17 at the Westin Galleria Dallas.

"We are expecting some lively discussion from the people who are actually pushing network functions virtualization forward in the market," says Carol Wilson, Light Reading's Editor-at-Large. "As we move into the deployment phase, there are issues the entire industry must acknowledge and address and we will be doing that in Dallas."

Chiosi will be offering a keynote address and participating in a panel on the role of open source in the virtualization effort, where she brings considerable expertise given her chairmanship of the Open Platform for NFV open source group developing an NFV infrastructure and key elements of an architecture.

But she is far from the only telecom leader who brings to the stage experience in the NFV realm. Shawn Hakl, Vice President of Enterprise Networking and Innovation at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, will deliver the opening keynote, and can point to his company's recent introduction of a software-defined wide area network. Tim Naramore, CTO of Masergy, is also keynoting and will highlight his firm's rollout of virtual CPE at customer endpoints around the globe.

Two other global NFV pioneers in NTT and Telefonica will also be well represented: Francisco-Javier Ramon Salguero, head of Telefonica's Network Virtualization Initiative & NFV Reference Lab, will offer insight into his company's extensive testing of NFV options and Rob Schrage, senior director of Technology Services for NTT America Inc., shares NTT's experience in rolling out NFV-based services in Asia and elsewhere.

"We know the industry still faces significant challenges in moving NFV forward, and we think this is an excellent opportunity to address those issues, gaining insight from those most familiar with them," says Roz Roseboro, senior Heavy Reading analyst and one of three co-chairs of NFV Everywhere.

Light Reading waives admission fees for verified employees of service providers, operators, financial & educational institutions, utilities, and government agencies. Other attendees will be charged $899 for a two-day pass. Register today!

A full agenda and more information can be found here.

Calling all Women – Light Reading is hosting its fifth Women in Comms breakfast, Championing Change, ahead of day 1 of NFV Everywhere. For more information please visit:  http://tinyurl.com/WICDALLAS

Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110913/SF67580LOGO-a

SOURCE Light Reading

Related Links

http://www.lightreading.com