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As General Manager of Service Provider, James Feger is responsible for F5’s service provider business worldwide, overseeing F5’s investments across product development, product management, business development, marketing, go-to-market, and related functions. Feger brings over 15 years of experience in the technology and telecommunications industries to this new position, including previous roles with CenturyLink and AT&T. Most recently, he was VP of Network Virtualization at CenturyLink, responsible for the development of all virtual services and products, including infrastructure routing, switching, compute, and automation. In previous leadership positions with CenturyLink, Feger managed Cloud and IT infrastructure teams, owned network strategy (including pioneering the company’s SDN/NFV program), and served as interim Chief Technology Officer. James is an IT and Cybersecurity graduate from Colorado State University and is based in Denver, Colorado.
Packet Acceleration for Communications Service Providers Workloads in a virtualized environment (QAT, FPGA's, SmartNICs, NFVi)
Today we have been working on the transformation of the network from purpose built systems of the past to those built around a virtualized compute, network and storage foundation. We've been at it for over 6 years and have some lessons learned. As we take the snapshot of the state of the art one thing is becoming very clear to nearly everyone, and maybe it was clear to some from the start, the Comm SP workload is not the Cloud workload. To maximize the transformation effort we still need resources that provide accelerated packet processing for these unique workloads.
Super Platinum Sponsor Keynote: F5
