New 5G Video Series
Interviews and Panel Discussions with Industry Leaders
The Cloudification of the Network:
The First of Its Kind Intelligent Mobile Network
Service providers are looking to cloud-native technologies to fully facilitate new revenue opportunities and realize OpEx savings and network automation. Cloud-native technologies offer a more robust infrastructure and tools to achieve a high level of automation. This NMG panel features industry leaders in the cloud native space and Affirmed as the pioneer of the first fully virtualized cloud native mobile network.
NMG Panel Speakers
Caroline Chan, VP and GM of the Network Business Incubator Division, Intel
Tareq Amin, CTO, Rakuten Mobile
Ashwin Moranganti, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, Affirmed Networks
MWC Americas 2019 Executive Interview with Ron Parker, CTO, Affirmed Networks
Affirmed’s Ron Parker discusses how the company has gained such a strong foothold with global Tier 1 operators, and the news surrounding their UnityCloud 5G core solution which is now available via AWS.
FierceWireless Interview
Ron Parker, CTO, Affirmed Networks
Kevin Gray, Publisher, FierceWireless
The Promise of NFV: Moving Towards 5G & Cloud Native
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and its evolution to 5G, is for service providers to foster new opportunities to scale their businesses while reducing their operational expenses. Service providers are looking to cloud-native technologies to fully facilitate new revenue opportunities and network automation. This NMG hosted panel focuses on the benefits promised by NFV, including the separation from infrastructure and the optimal level of operational automation.
NMG Panel Speakers
Juan Carlos Garcia Lopez, SVP Technology and Architecture, Telefonica
Seshadri Sathyanarayan, Senior Director of Product Management, Affirmed Networks
High Performance Next-Gen Core Networks
Next Generation Core Networks enable communications service providers to fully realize the benefits of 5G through COTS hardware. This cost-effective, scalable solution brings flexibility to meet the requirements for high capacity, high throughput, and lower latency deployments, as well as low power and small footprint deployment. This panel discusses the performance increases, flexibility, and breadth of this Next Generation Core Network.
NMG Panel Speakers
Ron Parker, CTO, Affirmed Networks
Caroline Chan, VP and GM of the Network Business Incubator Division, Intel
