Joint Webinar with Cradlepoint on 25 October - 2PM ET
Summary
SD-WAN technology has helped organizations reduce costs, simplify management, and enhance application performance across distributed networks. However, as 5G continues to play a bigger role in enterprise WAN due to its agility, performance, and time-to-service advantages, how will SD-WAN and 5G co-exist? While today’s SD-WAN solutions are optimized around providing resilient WAN connectivity for fixed sites and hybrid work environments using primarily wired connections, the next wave of SD-WAN will need to support the proliferation of mobile and fixed endpoints connected via a combination of cellular and wired technologies. With this inevitable convergence of SD-WAN and 5G, how does SD-WAN technology need to adapt to support cellular’s unique characteristics such as bandwidth variability and metered links? And how can SD-WAN technology be used to enhance an organization’s quality of experience over 5G?
Specific topics of discussion:
The emergence of 5G as critical WAN infrastructure
Why 5G networks need SD-WAN technology
Ways SD-WAN and underlying SD-WAN technologies such as Forward Error Correction, need to evolve to work effectively over 5G
How SD-WAN and Forward Error Correction can be leveraged to enhance 5G Quality of Experience
Speakers
Donna Johnson, SVP - Marketing, Cradlepoint
Donna Johnson is the SVP of Marketing at Cradlepoint. Donna specializes in helping startup and early stage companies bring new, innovative products to market, and is currently focused on driving technology adoption in the areas of 5G, IoT, and SD-WAN. Prior to Cradlepoint, Donna held product management and product marketing positions at Talari, an early pioneer in SD-WAN technology, and Citrix. Donna holds a Electrical Engineering degree from Texas A&M University.
Muriel Médard, Chief Scientist/NEC Professor of Software Science & Engineering, Steinwurf/MIT
Muriel Médard is NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at MIT, where she leads the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group in the Research Laboratory for Electronics at MIT. She belongs to the US National Academy of Engineering, the German National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Inventors, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She holds Honorary Doctorates from the Technical University of Munich and the University of Aalborg. Muriel is also Chief Scientist of Steinwurf, a Danish company she co-founded, as well as co-founding Code On Technologies, for which she consults. She is the inventor of over seventy US and associated international patents, the vast majority of which have been licensed or acquired.
Overview
Title: Navigating the Inevitable Collision of SD-WAN and 5G
Date: October 25, 2022
Time: 2:00 pm ET
Duration: 1 hour