June 20–23, 2016 | Berlin, Germany

PanelNext Steps for OPNFVDirk Kutscher, NEC Laboratories Europe

Panelists

• Bryan Sullivan• Director of Open Source Strategy @ AT&T

• Cecilia M. Corbi• Senior Standards Manager @ Telecom Italia

• Gerald Kunzmann• Standards Team Manager @ DOCOMO Eurolabs

• Masanori Miyazawa• Research Manager @ KDDI Laboratories Inc.

• Namgon Kim• Principal Research Engineer @ Korea Telecom

Heavy Reading Survey Take-Aways

• OPNFV is critical to the telecom industry• Upstream integration is more important than ever• NFV is making headway• Barriers remain• Security to be investigated more• Management and Orchestration (MANO), and the

related value OPNFV can provide, is increasingly important

https://www.opnfv.org/news-faq/press-release/2016/06/survey-reveals-93-percent-network-operators-view-opnfv-important

Topics

• Current role of OPNFVin NFV deployments / deployment plans

• Important current features/activities in OPNFV

• Important desirable/missing features/activitiesin OPNFV

Cecilia M. Corbi – Telecom Italia

• Senior Standard Manager, TIM, Global Advisory Services, Torino, Italy

• Cecilia Corbi works at TIM, Global Advisory Services, in the “Standards Coordination & Technological Disclosures“ department where she is responsible to coordinate TIM standardization activities in the service domain

• She graduated at the University of Turin (Mathematics Master Degree) and she has more than 25 years of experience in Telecommunications and international projects. Since 2006 she has been working in several standardization organizations such as TM forum, OMA (where she is acting as OMA board Vice chairman), ETSI where she is actively participating in the NFV ISG group.

• Her current interests are related to NFV and SDN areas both in Standardisation and Open Source domains.

Masanori Miyazawa – KDDI R&D Labs

• Research Manager• Masanori Miyazawa has been engaged in research on

optical networking and the network management.• He is currently investigating the network management for

SDN/NFV, especially, fault management area.• He is also in charge of standardization activity regarding

network management such as TMForum and OPNFV in KDDI.

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Namgon Kim – Korea Telecom

• Namgon Kim• Principal Research Engineer

Korea Telecom, South Korea

Bryan Sullivan – AT&T

• Director of Open Source Strategy• With 33 years in the telecom industry, Bryan has served

in a wide variety of development, architecture, and standards roles for digital switching platforms, mobility data services, web services, and recently is responsible for open source strategy related to NFV/SDN.

• Bryan is currently board vice-chair of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), an OPNFV TSC member, and lead of AT&T's efforts in the W3C.

Gerald Kunzmann – DOCOMO Euro-Labs

• Manager Standardization Team

• In 2010 Gerald started as researcher for the next generation mobile core network in DOCOMO Euro-Labs in Munich, working on improving the Quality of Experience (QoE) and efficiency of mobile networks. He represented DOCOMO Euro-Labs in the European research projects MEDIEVAL and SAIL, where partners from academia and industry worked to optimize mobile networks for multimedia services and scalable/adaptive solutions for a next generation transport network respectively.

Since 2014, he has been leading DOCOMO Euro-Labs' standardization team which is active in the areas of Machine-Type-Communications (MTC), Software-defined Networking (SDN), 5th Generation Mobile Networks (5G), and Network Function Virtualization (NFV).

• In the latter topic, Gerald is participating in the OPNFV project with a concentration on the topics Doctor (Fault Management) and Promise (Resource Reservation).

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