Prayson Pate and SDN NFV World panel to explore future of SD-WAN
Industry experts will debate overcoming obstacles to widespread adoption
- Panel: Prayson Pate, CTO, Ensemble division, ADVA; Oren Marmur, VP, head of NFV, Amdocs Open Networks, Amdocs; Wim Henderickx, director, consulting engineering and PLM, technology, Nokia fellow, Bell Labs; Gregory Walton, SM, marketing, VMware; Kevin Wade, SD, Ciena; Franck Chevalier (moderator), co-head of technology consulting, Analysys Mason
- Topics: Can SD-WAN live up to its potential?
- When: Tuesday, October 9, 5 p.m.
- Where: SDN NFV World Congress, World Forum, The Hague, Netherlands
Early deployments of SD-WAN are generating both opportunities and challenges. But for all of its benefits, will SD-WAN be able to live up to its potential? Important questions surround its evolution: is it important for VNFs in SD-WAN to be interoperable, or even substitutable? Should SD-WAN solutions be delivered as pure software loads on any hardware, or are they better as a bundle? How aware does an SD-WAN solution need to be of its underlying transport network? These and other SD-WAN deployments considerations will be the focus of this panel debate.