Join Ciena’s executives, experts, and customers—including Ciena’s Kevin Sheehan, Chief Technology Officer for the Americas, and Ron Beck, Central Lincoln PUD Network Engineer and former UTC Chairman—for this exclusive two-day event featuring our latest innovations that are transforming the utility industry.

During Ciena’s Utility Innovation Showcase, you’ll have access to:

• Keynotes and presentations geared to helping utilities build a secure, scalable, and reliable packet optical communications infrastructure
• Demos and solutions into building a scalable optical core, OT/IT convergence in the substation WAN, digital transformation, substation backbones to deliver Smart Grid applications, broadband services, and security
• Customers insights, including Ron Beck from Central Lincoln PUD, describing their journey to migrate from TDM to packet and how they are converging their OT and IT networks
• Real-time Q&A with Ciena’s experts

Matt Sherrod

Vice President of Product Management

Matt Sherrod drives the go to market strategy for the Blue Planet team at Ciena. He joined Blue Planet via the Packet Design acquisition where, as the Vice President of Product Management, he defined product direction and strategy for the company’s advanced IP/MPLS management solutions. With over 30 years of networking experience, Matt has held technical and product leadership roles across numerous fortune 100 companies tackling the biggest challenges facing network operations and automation teams.

Join Ciena’s Matt Sherrod, Vice President of Product Management, and Steve Dalberg, Sr. Solutions Architect, for the webinar: Smarter IP Management and Visibility.

See use cases that demonstrate how Ciena’s Blue Planet^® Route Optimization and Analysis (ROA) provides real-time and historical visibility into the dynamic routing operation of the entire network correlated with traffic and network performance.

ROA allows you to simplify the entire lifecycle of your network and your service offerings, providing:

• Accurate planning, design, and engineering of your IP/MPLS network
• Real-time information about routing changes, instability, and errors
• Play back of historical routing events – even if they lasted a few seconds
• Rapid identification of the root cause of reachability issues
• Assured performance of revenue-generating services including cloud services
• Modeling and simulation of the impact of network changes even before the changes are made

If you want to keep up-to-date with the best practices in MPLS network planning, design, and operations, you don’t want to miss this webinar!

Steve Dalberg

Sr. Solutions Architect

Steve Dalberg has been using the ROA software for more than a decade, first as a customer, then as a Sales Engineer for Packet Design where he has been working closely with some of the biggest networks in the world. He joined Ciena as part of the Blue Planet acquisition. Prior to that Steve worked at ISP’s, Cell Providers (AT&T Wireless), and Enterprises doing design, engineering and operations roles for IP networks starting in 1997.