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Softwarization of carrier networks

• Mario Kind

  Mario Kind works as a professional R&D engineer for Telekom Innovation Laboratories, the research department of Deutsche Telekom AG. During the last eight years in research he was evaluating the business, technology, and service trends in the Internet, telecommunication, and broadcast industry, and he consults on the impact on the future of broadband access networks. Currently he is challenged by the new possibilities presented by SDN and NFV topics, especially by participation in research projects FP7 ICT SPARC and UNIFY.

  Deutsche Telekom AG, Telekom Innovation Laboratories

  , Róbert Szabó

  Róbert Szabó received his Ph.D. from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in 2002. He was with Ericsson Research Hungary between 2000–2006. He was the president of the Telecommunications Section of the Scientific Association for Infocommunications, Hungary, between 2005–2007. He was the deputy head of the Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics (TMIT), BME, between 2008–2010. He was the head of the High Speed Networking Lab at BME, between 2007–2012. He rejoined Ericsson in 2013, where he currently works as the technical coordinator for the EU-FP7 UNIFY project. He is also an associate professor at TMIT, BME part time.

  Ericsson AB, Ericsson Research

  , Catalin Meirosu

  Catalin Meirosu is a master researcher with Ericsson Research in Stockholm, Sweden, which he joined in 2007. He holds a PhD in telecommunications (2005) from Politehnica University, Bucharest, Romania and was a project associate of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Catalin has six granted patents and co-authored over thirty scientific papers. He is currently working to develop DevOps capabilities for service providers in the FP7 UNIFY project. Catalin was a Guest Editor of two IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issues on Network and Service Virtualization published in 2015, and is serving in several technical program committees for IEEE conferences.

  Ericsson AB, Ericsson Research

  and Fritz-Joachim Westphal

  Fritz-Joachim Westphal received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Berlin. He has over 25 years of experience in the field of telecommunications. For 16 years he has been a member of different research departments of Deutsche Telekom, and is currently responsible for the research group “Network Architecture & Modelling” of the Telekom Innovation Laboratories. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 technical conference or journal papers.

  Deutsche Telekom AG, Telekom Innovation Laboratories