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Service Provider Digital Summit

Now available on demand

Don’t miss this exclusive virtual Ciena event!


Don’t miss this exclusive virtual Ciena event!

During the Service Provider Digital Summit, you’ll have access to keynotes and presentations, demos and solutions, analyst insights, and real-time Q&A with Ciena's experts—all geared to the latest innovations that are transforming the service provider industry.

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Paulina Gomez

Paulina Gomez

Advisor, Product Marketing, Ciena

Helen Xenos

Helen Xenos

Senior Director, Product Marketing, Ciena

Daniele Loffreda

Daniele Loffreda

Senior Advisor, Channel Marketing, Ciena

Vinicius Santos

Vinicius Santos

Advisor, Product Marketing, Ciena

Wayne Hickey

Wayne Hickey

Advisor, Product Marketing, Ciena

Featured Speakers

Steve Alexander

Steve Alexander

SVP & Chief Technology Officer, Ciena

Ray Mota

Ray Mota

CEO and Principal Analyst, ACG Research

Mike Roberts

Mike Roberts

Principal Consultant, Omdia

Kevin Sheehan

Kevin Sheehan

CTO of the Americas, Ciena

Featured Speakers

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.

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During the Service Provider Digital Summit, you’ll have access to keynotes and presentations, demos and solutions, analyst insights, and Q&A with Ciena's experts—all geared to the latest innovations that are transforming the service provider industry.

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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!

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Paulina Gomez

Paulina Gomez

Advisor, Product Marketing, Ciena

Helen Xenos

Helen Xenos

Senior Director, Product Marketing, Ciena

Matt Sherrod

Vice President of Product Management, Ciena

Alok Shah

Alok Shah

Vice President Strategy, BD & Marketing Networks Division, Samsung

Ed Knapp

Ed Knapp

CTO, American Tower Corporation

Mark Watts

Mark T. Watts

Technical Staff Architect, Verizon

Frank Basso

Frank Basso

VP Technology, Vapor IO

Steve Dalberg

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.

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On-demand sessions

Keynote: A Look into the Future of Communication Technologies
Steve Alexander, SVP & Chief Technology Officer

In our opening keynote, Ciena’s CTO and technology visionary, Steve Alexander, discusses key trends and technologies that are converging to make networks faster, closer, smarter, safer, and greener.
Gaining an Edge on Business Services
Dr. Ray Mota, CEO and Principal Analyst, ACG
Daniele Loffreda, Senior Advisor, Channel Marketing
Vinicius Santos, Advisor, Product Marketing
Matt Sherrod, Principal, Product Line Marketing

Discover the latest trends and market research about enterprise networks. Learn from ACG’s CEO and Principal Analyst, Dr. Ray Mota, about how SD-WAN, Managed Security Services, and virtualization at the edge will change the way Communications Service Providers of all sizes deliver connectivity to enterprises. Get the latest insights on NFV, Segment Routing, and the future of IP Architectures.
Universal Aggregation—You Can Have it All 
Wayne Hickey, Advisor, Product Marketing 

Residential, enterprise, cell tower, legacy TDM applications—different categories of network demand present different access and transport requirements. Learn how universal aggregation allows Communications Service Providers to tackle multiple traffic challenges while adding flexibility, scalability, simplicity, and cost optimization.
5G Business and Network Transformation 
Kevin Sheehan, CTO of the Americas
Ed Knapp, CTO, American Tower Corporation
Alok Shah, VP Strategy, BD and Marketing, Samsung
Frank Basso, VP Technology, Vapor IO 
Mark T. Watts, Technical Staff Architect, Verizon 

In 5G, a new era of converging technologies unfolds, and Communications Service Providers of all types will face new challenges and opportunities. Join Ciena’s CTO for the Americas, Kevin Sheehan, and other market influencers and experts to explore how 5G will transform the business of both wireless and wireline network operators, and the key technology and architecture shifts that will ensue.
Keys to Optical Network Evolution
Helen Xenos, Senior Director, Product Marketing
Paulina Gomez, Advisor, Product Marketing 

Optical networks continue to evolve at an accelerating pace. Join Ciena experts to learn the latest developments in optical technologies, the trends and choices for Service Providers of all sizes on footprint, performance, pluggables, and scalability, and see how software tools are making optical networks smarter and more efficient. 
The Next Normal: Impacts of COVID-19 in Communications Service Providers
Mike Roberts, Principal Consultant, Omdia

The COVID-19 pandemic radically accelerated changes that were ongoing, and consolidated new ways for how people work, study, shop, socialize, and consume entertainment. Learn what the Next Normal holds for network operators and get insightful analysis on opportunities and challenges for the post-pandemic era. 

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