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January 19, 2023SASE Convergence: Civilizing the Wild West of Cybersecurity
Fortinet’s EVP of Products and CMO, John Maddison, delves into the main drivers in the cybersecurity threat landscape today, the complexity they’re creating, and the universal Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solutions enterprises need to solve them. Can SASE create an integrated zero trust architecture across the entire infrastructure in a hybrid world where applications continue to move?
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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with John Maddison of Fortinet:
How are networking and cybersecurity converging with SASE and what’s the next step?
Can vendor and platform consolidation help and how do we get there?
How does Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) fit in and should it really be Zero Trust Application Access?
Can SASE integrate cloud and on-premise solutions to meet the challenges of a hybrid world?
Where do companies need the most help to ensure their network architecture runs correctly, efficiently, and securely and how can we help?
About Our Guest
John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO, Fortinet
John Maddison has more than 30 years of executive management experience in the Cybersecurity and Telecommunications Industries. He joined Fortinet in 2012 to lead Cloud/SaaS Security development teams and is now the Chief Marketing Officer and EVP Products.

John previously held executive leadership positions at Trend Micro focused on Advanced Threat Research and Cloud Delivered Security Services. He started his career with Lucent Technologies Mobile Division, Hewlett Packard Software and Cable & Wireless Global Networking.

John holds a B.S. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Plymouth University, United Kingdom.
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January 05, 2023Experience-Led Transformation: How We Meet Customer Demands
ServiceNow’s Vice President, Rohit Batra, explains how purpose-built workflows can create a common platform for better customer engagement and service management. Can organizations work together to meet common challenges and share the value chain within a connected ecosystem?
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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Rohit Batra of ServiceNow:
Why is profitable growth at the top of customers’ minds and how can CSPs help enterprises achieve it?
Can service providers verticalize core offerings to better interact with enterprise customers and partners?
What is a “platform organization” and how can service providers and vendors alike open to it?
When does process-driven architecture step in as a system of action rather than a system of record?
Why is “we” philosophy at the heart of plugging into an interconnected ecosystem and how do we get to it?
About Our Guest
Rohit Batra, Vice President and Head of Product Management for Telecom, Media and Technology, ServiceNow
Rohit is VP and Head of Product Management for Telecom, Media and Technology at ServiceNow. As part of his role, Rohit leads the TMT product strategy and roadmap pertaining to domains such as network and service experience, order management and customer experience for ServiceNow customers.

Prior to ServiceNow, Rohit ran the solutions and product strategy teams at various organizations, including Salesforce, Amdocs, Oracle and Comverse. He has over 20 years of experience in TMT industry across Customer Experience and BSS/OSS domain running delivery, solutions, and product management functions.
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December 15, 2022Network as a Service: Putting the Customer in the Driver’s Seat
Bell Canada’s SVP, Jeremy Wubs, relays key lessons learned in building a network-as-a-service offering and the value of great customer experiences.
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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Jeremy Wubs of Bell Canada:
What does moving workloads to the cloud require and who’s going to drive it?
How does network as a service differ from a managed network and security as a service?
What do customers want and how can we deliver on those requirements?
Why might it be better for service providers to integrate horizontally than vertically?
What lessons have the largest providers learned along the road and how can you leverage them?
About Our Guest
Jeremy Wubs, SVP, Product, Marketing and Professional Services for Bell Business Markets, Bell Canada
Jeremy Wubs is Senior Vice-President, Product, Marketing and Professional Services for Bell Canada. He is responsible for all marketing programs, pricing and product management for mid-sized and large markets nationally.

At Bell, Jeremy has launched a number of innovative products and services across networking, unified communications, cloud computing and security. He formerly held roles as the Vice-President of Product Management and Vice-President of Pricing and Marketing Programs, in addition to leading the national pursuit teams responsible for Bell Business Markets’ largest and most strategic pursuits.

Prior to these roles at Bell, Jeremy spent a number of years involved in the development of vertical solutions as well as advanced research and development focused on communication-enabled solutions spanning both the enterprise and carrier markets globally.
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December 01, 2022In the Industry: The Future is Now
MEF President, Nan Chen, highlights the evolution from Carrier Ethernet to beyond the wide area network and into the realm of connected cloud computing, and how MEF’s newest standards and LSO automation APIs are paving the way.
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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Nan Chen of MEF:
What profound industry advancements are emerging?
How are MEF business and operational APIs empowering service providers and enterprises to build once and deploy everywhere?
How are MEF’s newest SASE and Zero Trust standards creating the common language needed to set the baseline for secure interoperability?
When and how does 5G come into play and who’s leading the charge?
Which one of MEF’s most recent accomplishments has been the most impactful?
About Our Guest
Nan Chen, President, MEF
Nan is a tech entrepreneur, a world traveler, and an avid runner…

As a tech entrepreneur, Nan founded and serves as president of MEF. Nan also founded CENX (acquired by Ericsson) that pioneered industry first service assurance solution for closed loop automation. His previous ventures include Atrica (acquired by Nokia) and SynOptics/BayNetworks (acquired by Nortel). Nan has been recognized regularly as one of Top 100 Most Influential People in Telecom/Internet Industry.

As a world traveler, Nan visited over 50 countries mostly for work, and over 200 wineries mostly for pleasure; As an avid runner, Nan raced over 20 marathons, including World Marathon Majors.

In his previous life, he was a record holder in pole vault at Beijing University with 2 MS & 1 BS degrees.
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17 min
November 22, 2022Automating Inter-Carrier Ordering: A Transformational Effort
Neustar’s Senior Vice President, John Denemark, explains how Neustar and MEF LSO APIs are helping wholesale carriers to transform manual processes and proprietary APIs to modernize their legacy systems for buying and selling wholesale connectivity access—and enabling automation through interoperability.
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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with John Denemark of Neustar, a TransUnion Company:
What is a retail-wholesale service provider relationship and how is it ripe for modernization?
How have ASOG and proprietary API implementations diverged to the point of outliving their usefulness?
What is order enrichment technology and how can it save the day?
Can carriers derive the benefits of MEF LSO APIs where possible while continuing to exist in an ecosystem that is not yet completely automated?
What’s the hurdle to adopting MEF LSO APIs and how can we overcome it?
About Our Guest
John Denemark, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Carrier Provisioning Division, Neustar, A TransUnion Company
John is a dynamic leader with a 20-year tenure at Neustar where he leads the Carrier Provisioning business, which includes a complete suite of automated products and services addressing carriers’ off-net provisioning needs.

Holding leadership positions across all areas of Neustar’s business, John has extensive experience in product management, operations, development, service delivery, customer care, and professional services.

John has been an ISO 9000 lead auditor and is certified in Rummler-Brache process improvement methodology, Cost of Quality and CMMI. He holds a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a master’s in economics from The Johns Hopkins University.
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24 min
November 10, 2022People-Centric Automation: Integrating the Service Provider Ecosystem
Salesforce’s Senior Director of Product Management, Abhi Sur, details how communication service providers (CSPs) can apply a people-centric lens when developing automation strategies and processes, with the end game of delivering great customer experiences.
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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Abhi Sur of Salesforce:
What’s behind every great customer experience?
How does automation enable customers to better use the digital channel to self-serve?
How does it enable employees to better serve their customers?
What does it take to fully integrate billing, mediation, and customer-care systems?
What role do MEF LSO business and operational APIs play in the integration landscape?
About Our Guest
Abhi Sur, Senior Director of Product Management, Communications Industry, Salesforce
Abhi is responsible for product strategy and management of cross portfolio products for Communications Industry Cloud at Salesforce. With an API-first mindset, he defines the product roadmap incorporating the latest technologies from Salesforce in conformance with industry standards, that would enable communications service providers to move beyond connectivity into new applications and business models.

He enjoys forging new relationships with partners—in order to grow the connectivity ecosystem to ultimately enable transformational outcomes for service providers. Throughout his career, spanning multiple roles, he strives to be outcome-focused, and lead with empathy and a learning mindset.
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21 min
October 27, 2022AI on the Edge: Data Served from Bento Boxes
Cachengo’s CEO, Ash Young, highlights the innovations in data storage with parallel processing that are empowering the deep neural networks required for AI computing and machine learning in the automotive industry and everything else right out on the edge–and how SD-WAN and the Integrated Trust Network are bringing it all together.
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In this Executives at the Edge podcast episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Ash Young of Cachengo:
Where do we process the many gigs of data collected at the edge by AI and how can bento and pizza boxes help?
How can we effectively and efficiently analyze the data on location, and only transfer what’s relevant?
How will SD-WAN help us to network services and hardware together in an easily scalable way?
What’s the key to wide-scale adoption and interoperability?
Can a truly interoperable solution exist and how can we trust it?
About Our Guest
Ash Young, Co-Founder & CEO, Cachengo
As a visionary CEO with over 20 years as a pioneer in the storage industry, Ash created the first open source NAS (Network Attached Storage) stack, the first unified block/file storage stack for Linux, the first storage management software, innovating many times along the way.

He has served in a number of VP and CXO roles for some of the leaders in storage and open source, including Xyratex (now Seagate), Snap Appliance (now Microsemi), and VA Linux Systems.

Ash’s uncanny ability to be creative and leave a lasting influence on technology is what truly sets him apart. He is happy to envision being 100 years old and still writing open source software for the world.
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23 min
October 13, 2022Telco Clouds: Putting Virtual Networks to the Test
Spirent Communications’ CTO, Dave Larson, explores how telecom providers are overcoming the technical debt associated with tightly integrated virtual private networks to leverage the cloud’s virtualized framework.
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In this Executives at the Edge podcast episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Dave Larson of Spirent Communications:
What do public clouds lack that telco operators still need and how do they get it?
Why is testing system infrastructure and security in development through to production so difficult?
How can they test and validate these critical infrastructure components virtualized in software?
What happens when a portion of the Kubernetes framework, a pod, or individual element goes down? How do things recalibrate? How do we recover?
How does Zero Trust help to move the cybersecurity problem past the stack of capabilities to a higher level?
About Our Guest
Dave Larson, Chief Technology Officer and General Manager, Cloud & IP,
Spirent Communications
Dave Larson is the CTO for Spirent Communications and General Manager for Spirent’s Cloud & IP business. He is responsible for overall company technology vision and strategy, leading the Spirent Advanced Technology team that incubates forward looking test, measurement, and assurance solutions in the Cloud-Native realm for incorporation across all of Spirent’s product lines.

Dave has more than 25 years’ experience across networking, network security and cloud architecture, working in both emerging technology start-ups and large public enterprises. Before joining Spirent, Dave was Vice President and General Manager for the Data Center Networking business and Chief Technologist for Networking, Security, Advanced Cloud Technology & Strategy at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Previously, Dave was COO/CTO for Corero Network Security, a developer of carrier-grade, terabit-class DDoS mitigation solutions. He was also VP of Advanced Technology and CTO for HP Networking, and held senior product and technical roles for a number of organizations, including 3Com Corporation, TippingPoint, Xedia, Sandburst, and Tizor Systems. Dave has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Gordon College in Wenham, MA.
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24 min
September 29, 2022The SD-WAN Cake: Cutting Through the Underlay
Industry expert Sunil Khandekar highlights SD-WAN’s central role in the shift from bottom-up to top-down software-defined networking. He discusses how service providers can have their automation cake and secure it too by embracing SASE, SSE, and Zero Trust industry standards.
In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Sunil Khandekar, founder of Nuage Networks:
What is SD-WAN’s evolving value, from both a business and technical perspective?
How do service providers securely connect users in any location, to their applications in any cloud, with fully automated self-service?
How do you select the best underlay for the SLA (service level agreement) for that application to that end user? And how do you measure it end-to-end?
When do centralized policies and ACLs (network access control lists), SASE, SSE, and Zero Trust come into play?
Why are SD-WAN, SASE, and Zero Trust standards so important and how do service providers build differentiation on top?
About Our Guest
Sunil Khandekar, Former Founder & CEO of Nuage Networks, Independent Consultant
Sunil is a seasoned product leader who builds high-value growth businesses from vision to customer adoption. Most recently, he was the Founder and CEO of Nuage Networks, an SDN venture of Nokia.

Sunil has over 25 years of experience in the Telecom and Networking industry, leading product management, marketing, engineering, and business development and deep knowledge of SDN, SD-WAN, multi-hybrid cloud, cloud security, and networking. Sunil has co-authored and contributed to multiple IETF drafts. He is also a regular speaker at industry events and conferences.
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21 min
September 15, 20225G and Network Slicing: Hybrid Clouds with Silver Linings
Microsoft’s VP of 5G Strategy, Shawn Hakl, discusses how 5G’s inherently cloud-friendly architecture excels opportunities to skyrocket the efficiency and effectiveness of the network with finely tailored network slices—including private 5G networks and hybrid clouds with private mobile edge compute solutions.
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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Shawn Hakl of Microsoft:
What does 5G have to offer carrier, service provider, and developer communities and how can it bring the power of the cloud to the core network?
What are the characteristics of a modern network and where does automation come into play?
How does network slicing allow service providers to tailor the network around end-user applications?
How are oil rigs, airports, smart factories, connected cars, and many other applications, poised to leverage the power of 5G?
Can organizations who need to accommodate public access on a private network, or private compute in locations without good connectivity or cloud access, really have it all? And how?
About Our Guest
Shawn Hakl, VP, 5G Strategy, Microsoft
Shawn is responsible for building and executing the product strategy and partnerships for Microsoft’s Azure for Operators portfolio. His team works across product, engineering, and sales to help operators execute on the digital transformation of the core and edge networks. Prior to Microsoft, Shawn served at Verizon as the Senior Vice President of Business Product, responsible for a $29B portfolio covering services such as enterprise networking, 4G/5G, cyber security, collaboration and IoT.
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