AT&T’s Network Virtualization Journey
Jun 23, 2020
- Event:
- Intel Cloud-Native NFV vSummit
- Release Date:
- Tuesday, 23rd June, 2020
- Featuring:
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Brian Bearden, Assistant Vice President, Network Cloud Design and Delivery Management, AT&T
Guy Daniels, Director of Content, TelecomTV
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A brief overview of AT&T’s journey to virtualize 75% of its network functions by the end of 2020. Starting the journey over six years ago with immature technologies and many unknowns provided ample opportunity for AT&T to iterate and learn. While AT&T started the journey using virtual machine technology, the infrastructure control was migrated to container technology in order to address lifecycle management and scale challenges. Now that network functions themselves are migrating to container technology, the learnings from the infrastructure are being applied with the hope of achieving true cloud-native network functions. This network virtualization evolution can be accelerated through strong industry collaboration and vibrant open source.
Speakers
Brian Bearden
Assistant Vice President, Network Cloud Design and Delivery Management, AT&T
Brian's professional career spans 28 years in the delivery of advanced software systems such as decision support systems for international purchasing, payroll systems and inventory systems for large manufacturers, business and operational support systems for large telecoms, distributed computing platforms, cloud infrastructure and software defined networking. Brian has contributed both as a individual and as a leader across systems operations, software development, and enterprise architecture and planning. As a leader Brian has led individual software development teams as well as enterprise architects working on large scale integration projects. Over the last five years, Brian has been leading the engineering and delivery management teams engaged in delivering AT&T's Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure for its Software Defined Networking.
Guy Daniels
Director of Content, TelecomTV
Filmed with TelecomTV’s Smart Studio service
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