Keynote: Open Source Networking and a Vision of Fully Automated Networks - Arpit Joshipura
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2017-10-25

Keynote: Open Source Networking and a Vision of Fully Automated Networks - Arpit Joshipura, General Manager, Networking, The Linux Foundation 

A disruption in 140+ year old telecom industry is making networking cool again with SDN/NFV, 5G, IOT, and AI at the heart of network automation.  This talk will focus on how Carriers, Enterprises and Cloud Service providers are bracing for a shift from proprietary to open source; and how the Linux Foundation is in the middle of this with projects like ONAP, ODL, OPNFV and more. 

About Arpit Joshipura
Arpit brings over 25 years of networking expertise and vision to The Linux Foundation with technical depth and business breadth. He has instrumented and led major industry disruptions across Enterprises, Carriers and Cloud architectures including IP, Broadband, Optical, Mobile, Routing, Switching, L4-7, Cloud, Disaggregation, SDN/NFV, Open Networking and has been an early evangelist for open source. Arpit has served as CMO/VP in startups and larger enterprises including Prevoty, Dell/Force10, Ericsson/Redback, ONI/CIENA and BNR/Nortel leading strategy, product management, marketing, engineering and technology standards functions.