ConteXtream’s Co-founder Sharon Barkai to Speak at Carrier Network Virtualization
Mountain View, Calif. (PRWEB) December 04, 2014 -- ConteXtream, a leading provider of carrier-grade network virtualization solutions, today announced that Co-Founder Sharon Barkai will be speaking at the Carrier Network Virtualization conference, on Wednesday, December 10 in Palo Alto, Calif. Sharon will be participating in a panel discussion titled “Strategic Leadership Insight, Identifying the True Value of SDN and NFV for Carriers,” alongside other notable influencers in the telecom industry, including representatives from PCCW Global, Oracle and Cable Labs. The panel will be moderated by Stéphane Téral, principal analyst, Infonetics Research.
ConteXtream’s presence at the event will also include two demonstrations of their award-winning distributed software-defined-networking (SDN) Fabric solution, ContexNet, in SDN-enabled virtual Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and Gi-LAN use cases.
WHO: Sharon Barkai, co-founder of ConteXtream. Barkai conceived of and began ConteXtream in 2006 after a career spent founding and managing highly successful technology companies. Before ConteXtream, he was founder & CEO of Xeround Systems, which developed an innovative map-reduce approach to performance and scalability. Prior to Xeround, Sharon was founder and CEO of Sheer Networks (acquired by Cisco) which developed a highly successful control & management plane for Consumer Broadband networks which was adopted by Tier 1 Operators worldwide. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Hebrew University, and an MSc from Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science.
WHAT:
• Panel conversation entitled “Strategic Leadership Insight: Identifying the True Value of SDN and NFV for Carriers.”
• Live demonstrations of ConteXtream’s SDN-enabled virtual EPC and virtualization of Gi-LAN services use cases.
WHEN:
• Live demonstrations will take place during exhibition hours on December 10-11, 2014 from 8:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• Panel on SDN and NFV for Carriers – Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 12:15 p.m. PT
WHERE: Crowne Plaza
4290 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, Ca
94306
About ConteXtream
ConteXtream is a privately held software-defined-networking (SDN) company that enables carriers to deliver network capacity and functions in the same way cloud providers deliver applications effectively utilizing standard compute and storage. ConteXtream's SDN offering based on standards is carrier-grade and enables Network Function Virtualization (NFV) for various solutions deployed on carrier networks. Deployed by Tier-1 operators, ConteXtream's Carrier-SDN dynamically and elastically connects subscribers to services and enables carriers to leverage standard, low-cost server hardware and hypervisors to virtualize functions and services, while replacing costly purpose-built proprietary systems. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., ConteXtream is backed by Benhamou Global Ventures, Gemini Israel Funds, Norwest Venture Partners and Sofinnova Ventures as well as Comcast Ventures and Verizon Ventures. For additional information, visit http://www.contextream.com.
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Lisette Rauwendaal, ConteXtream, http://www.contextream.com, +1 408-727-0351, [email protected]
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