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Plug-and-Play Network Integration: Adapting to Open Connectivity

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Console Connect VP of Professional Services and Technology, Divesh Gupta, explores how automation, open APIs, and AI are reshaping enterprise connectivity with tools like the LSO Adaptor Tool—enabling real-time, on-demand services without intermediaries. Can these innovations deliver standardized, scalable, and secure services across global networks? 

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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Divesh Gupta of Console Connect:

  • How are open APIs enabling seamless, automated connections between clouds, data centers, and enterprises? 
  • What does a plug-and-play LSO Adaptor Tool do, and how does it simplify integration for service providers? 
  • What are the challenges in automating last-mile connectivity, and how close are we to full end-to-end automation? 
  • How are AI workloads driving the need for flexible, dynamic bandwidth provisioning? 
  • Can AI agents directly program the network using APIs like CAMARA’s Quality on Demand, and what does that future look like? 
    • Learn More
    • Read the recent press release, MEF and Console Connect Advance Industry API Integration with Launch of Open Source LSO Adaptor Tool.
    • Watch the GNE 2024 Snapshot video of Divesh discussing the inspiration and strategic goals behind the Open-Source LSO API Adaptor project, designed to enhance the MEF community’s operational efficiency, Divesh Gupta, Console Connect on Revolutionizing Connectivity with Open-Source LSO API Adaptor
    • Explore MEF’s LSO APIs for service automation.
    • Access LSO Tools to Blend LSO APIs and Adapt LSO APIs on the LSO Marketplace
      • About Our Guest

      Divesh Gupta, Vice President, Professional Services and Technology, Console Connect

      Divesh has over 30 years of experience in the international telecommunication market. In his current role at PCCW Global, Divesh leads several software development teams engaged in digital transformation of international data connectivity services. A certified SAFe Agile practitioner, he focuses on enhancing customer experience and reducing turnaround times by improving the efficiency of the sales team and automating existing manual business processes. Current initiatives include: (1) API development for inter-carrier sales process automation for trading of international connectivity services and (2) Blockchain based financial settlements within the Telecom vertical (3) A custom designed CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote) application called QuickQuote, This automation cuts down the turnaround time for quote responses to PCCW Global’s customers from several weeks to under a few minutes.


      Divesh is Co-Chair of the Test & Certification committee at MEF; is an ONF certified SDN associate (OCSA); has a MEF-SDCP certification. He attained his MBA from University of Iowa, Tippie School of Management in May of 2006 and also holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communications from Manipal Institute of Technology.

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