Dwayne McIntosh, Senior Product Manager, Cisco - Service Provider Network Systems
Waris Sagheer, Principal Product Manager, Cisco - Service Provider Network Systems
The promise of 5G services is huge. Massively scalable, low-latency enabled applications will open up new ecosystems, business models and creativity across enterprise and residential markets. Sounds great, right?
At the same time, 5G will require mobile networks to increase availability, reliability and security to new heights that aren’t entirely predictable as the network surface grows exponentially and new services grow organically. Is your network a platform for new service innovation and will it enable your business to grow agilely in unforeseen directions as 5G technology opens new frontiers? Now is the time for network operators to evolve their transport networks in advance of mass 5G rollouts. Operators have many decisions to make, but what is the best path forward?
Join this Light Reading webinar to learn about the technical aspects of the 5G transport network, laying the foundation for deeper dives on the evolution of your transport architecture.
Attendees will learn:
- How to facilitate the convergence of mobile and wireline services onto a single transport network
- How to enable new 5G services with heightened performance/enterprise-grade expectations
- How to increase service innovation and velocity
- How to lower TCO
Sterling Perrin, Principal Analyst – Optical Networking & Transport, Heavy Reading
Sterling has more than 15 years' experience in telecommunications as an industry analyst and journalist. His coverage area at Heavy Reading is optical networking, including packet-optical transport. He also authors Heavy Reading's Packet-Enabled Optical Networking Market Tracker and Next-Gen Core Packet-Optical Market Tracker. Sterling joined Heavy Reading after five years at IDC, where he served as lead optical networks analyst, responsible for the firm's optical networking subscription research and custom consulting activities. Prior to IDC, Sterling worked for Standard & Poor's, where he delivered global industry analysis on a range of IT segments. He is a former journalist and editor at Telecommunications Magazine, and has also done consulting work for the research firm Current Analysis. Sterling is a frequent speaker at telecom industry events and a highly sought-after source among the business and trade press.
Dwayne McIntosh, Senior Product Manager, Cisco - Service Provider Network Systems
Dwayne is an accomplished Senior Product Manager at Cisco where he’s been spearheading impactful solutions for the service provider market for over 20 years. Most recently, he has been focused on Cisco’s transport solutions to satisfy emerging 5G application and service requirements. In Dwayne’s role as product manager, he works with some of the world’s largest service provider accounts to meet their technical and business needs to deliver on the 5G promise.
Waris Sagheer, Principal Product Manager, Cisco - Service Provider Network Systems
Waris Sagheer, Principal Product Manager, is leading "5G Converged SDN Transport Product & Solutions" within Cisco Systems. In his current role, he is managing 5G mobile backhaul, midhaul and fronthaul product and solution development. Waris has more than 17 years of service provider experience in SP technologies. Prior to his current role, Waris worked for a diverse range of organizations in Cisco, including leadership roles. He is SP CCIE Emeritus and is a frequent speaker in various Industry networking forums.
