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I have lived through the tears and joys of being an early adopter of Contrail in the most complex use-case for a wireless service provider core. This experience has enlightened me about the capabilities and the shortcomings of TF, which are keeping it just one step away from being the first choice for SDN solution. I will encourage, support and facilitate the adoption of TF in the service provider industry as they venture into the hyper connectivity era of 5G and IoT deployments.
Represented Group:
Community Committee
Short Biography:
I am a Director of Network Cloud at AT&T and in my role I drive the strategic direction of the AT&T cloud. In this role, I led the team which designed the new AT&T cloud platform to support 5G commercial launch, supported by Open Source technologies such as OpenStack and Kubernetes (Airship). I have built numerous innovative designs using ONAP, Openstack and SDN to deploy VNFs in 100s of AT&T data centers, central offices and network centers. I have been designing and integrating Contrail with Openstack for AT&T SDN use cases and was part of the AT&T team which received “ Superuser award” during 2015 Openstack Submit.
Statement of Intent:
2019 is going to be focused around 5G and Edge computing . There will be new edge cases driving need for high speed and low latency connectvity at scale. My goal is to directly link standalone edge devices to cloud at scale and I believe Tungsten Fabric can play a major role. Additionally, I will be working with community colleagues to ensure Tungsten Fabric improves on three key aspects - security, resiliency and scalability. Additionally , I would like to help increase adoption of Tungsten Fabric and make the community more diverse.
