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Named last year as one of the Global Telecoms Business “50 Women to Watch,” Dr. Natasha Tamaskar brings years of telecom industry experience with particular expertise in strategy, business development and marketing for cloud, cPaaS, wireless, SDN/NFV, and networks security solutions. In her role at Radisys VP of Global Marketing, Channels and Sales Strategy, Natasha is responsible for overall product and corporate marketing, channels development and sales strategy. Prior to Radisys, she was responsible for Kandy.io PaaS strategy and business development as the VP of Cloud Strategy at GENBAND. Natasha also spearheaded and launched several of GENBAND’s key strategic solutions including Wireless Gateway, Network Security and WebRTC as the VP of Strategic Marketing. While at GENBAND, she launched and chaired the Small Cell Forum's first interoperability charter and group. Prior to GENBAND, Dr. Tamaskar held various senior leadership positions in Product Management, Product Development, Solutions Marketing and Technology for NextPoint Networks, Reef Point and Nortel. Dr. Tamaskar holds a Ph.D. in Computational Physics from the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University.
PANEL hosted by Radisys: Open Frameworks: The Future of Next-gen Networks or Just an Interesting Science Project?
As service providers seek to transform their networks to keep pace with bandwidth demands, open frameworks have come to the forefront of options for network disruption. Leveraging open components can help break vendor lock-in, accelerate innovation, and reduce costs.
Open source projects are also attractive because they can be formed very quickly. All that is needed is an idea, and then for a few companies to come together to begin trying that idea out. However, this has also led to a plethora or open organizations and frameworks either overlapping in scope or leaving significant gaps in implementation.
Service providers are currently trialing open frameworks such as CORD today in the lab. But will these open source, multi-vendor solutions make it to commercial deployment or will traditional monolithic vendors prevail?
This panel session will feature a combination of service providers and vendors with their own viewpoint on the role of open source frameworks in driving network disruption – and if open frameworks will “win” out. Attendees will:
