Analysys Mason Webinar | Are You Creating Automation Islands?

Date: Thursday, January 24th
Time: 11:00am ET

Every day, our landscape shifts under the weight of changing consumer demands and technological advances. To survive, our networks must adapt.

Some see end-to-end network automation as a silver bullet. At Ciena, we believe automation is only part of the solution. It takes a combination of analytics and intelligence, software-controlled automation, programmable infrastructure and human expertise to unlock the full potential of your network. It takes the Adaptive Network™.

Join Ciena and Analysys Mason for a webinar that answers the question: Are You Creating Automation Islands?
During this webinar, we'll explore:

Ciena’s vision for adaptive networks and their operations.
Examples from global networks that have found the ‘secret sauce’ to network adaptation.
Strategies to reduce network complexity and improve dynamic services.

Featured speakers:

Dana Cooperson

Dana is the Research Director for Analysys Mason's six software and networks technology research programmes and two related telecom software forecast and market share programmes. Her team's mission is to help customers to progress toward and benefit from a more automated, dynamic, cloudified future, rather than be threatened by this market shift. Her areas of expertise are intelligent fixed and mobile network infrastructure, automation and operations. Dana's research and consulting focuses on the communications software/network market and technology best practices required for digital business transformation and enabled by the integration of NFV, SDN and other IT technologies for virtualisation, cloudification and automation. She has been with Analysys Mason since 2014.

Chip Redden

Chip Redden is currently Senior Director, Vertical and Segment Marketing at Ciena Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for providing subject matter expertise and technical marketing for solutions, products and features to global enterprise customers. With over 25 years in the Ethernet and IP networking arenas, Mr. Redden brings extensive experience in technical marketing and product management to Ciena. Before assuming his current position, Mr. Redden served as VP, Marketing and Product Management for Overture Networks, Director of Technical Marketing for Juniper Networks and spent 11 years in the Systems Engineering organization at 3Com. Mr. Redden holds a B.A. from Wake Forest University.