Live Q&A Session – Edgenomics Day 3

Live Q&A panel held at the end of the third and final day of the DSP Leaders Summit on Edgenomics for 2020. TelecomTV’s Guy Daniels and Ray Le Maistre are joined by returning panellists on the first day of the summit to discuss topics related to the economics of the Edge for telcos.

Amongst the audience questions posed to the panellists are:

• Do telcos really have compelling Edge-enabled solutions for enterprises?
• How to telcos meet the challenge of managing and orchestrating all their edge assets?
• With 5G being rolled out now, are operators already demanding neutral host edge capacity?
• How will a federated edge network be managed?
• How will compute infrastructure in telco edge facilities be dimensioned to support as yet unknown applications?
• What do telcos think of hyper scalers’ ambitions to own the edge?

Featuring:

• Neil McRae, Managing Director Architecture & Technology Strategy and BT Chief Architect, BT
• Nigel Stephenson, Dir. Market Development, EMEA. Telco and Edge Cloud BU, VMware
• Rolf Eberhardt, Head of Orchestration, Communications & Media Solutions, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Beth Cohen, SDN Product Strategies, Verizon
• José Antonio Aranda, Innovation and Product Strategy Director, Cellnex

Recorded LIVE on 20th October 2020 from the TelecomTV Studios

This session is part of the DSP Leaders Edgenomics Summit, 20-22 October, 2020:

Day 1: Tuesday, 20th October

• Edge Investment Strategies for Telcos
• Live Q&A Session

Day 2: Wednesday, 21st October

• The Role of Neutral Hosts in Edgenomics
• How Telcos and the Hyperscalers can work together at the Edge
• Live Q&A Session

Day 3: Thursday, 22nd October

• BT’s Neil McRae gives the lowdown on the UK operator’s edge developments
• AT&T’s Kandan Kathirvel on Open Source at the Telco Edge
• Edge Opportunities at Customer Premises
• The importance of Edgenomics for 5G
• Live Q&A Session

Speakers

Moderator: Guy Daniels

Director of Content, TelecomTV

Moderator: Ray Le Maistre

Editorial Director, TelecomTV

Beth Cohen

SDN Product Strategies, Verizon

José Antonio Aranda

Innovation and Product Strategy Director, Cellnex

Neil McRae

Managing Director Architecture & Technology Strategy and BT Chief Architect, BT

Nigel Stephenson

Dir. Market Development, EMEA. Telco and Edge Cloud BU, VMware

Rolf Eberhardt

Head of Orchestration, Communications & Media Solutions, Hewlett Packard Enterprise