An Operator’s perspective - SDN powered Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)

Abstract: The Network is the foundation for connecting People, Machines and Things. We are at the cusp of realization of mass IoT solutions over the next ~5 years. While the mass adoption maybe a foregone conclusion, challenges remain ranging from business models to security and management of massive data (volume of data, privacy of the data, making sense of the data etc.).

This talk will explore the next-generation city infrastructure, and the role of the broadband network for the connectivity of IoT, underpinned by SDN technologies. It will look at how the network becomes the ‘distributed’ cloud, facilitating next wave of services and meeting the customer expectation requirements e.g. lower latency.

Furthermore, it will do a reality check on the challenges, and the possibilities for collaborative and innovative solutions for the same.

Bio: Ravinder Shergill is the Principal Architect, responsible for Strategy, Architecture and Governance for IP infrastructures at TELUS. With his deep, 25+ years, experience in networking, he helps set the strategy for next-generation architectures that promote industry ecosystem adoption, builds cross-segment synergies between different ‘tenants’ of the network.

He has served in a variety of lead roles at TELUS, including Converged Core Architect, Converged Edge Architect, IPv6 enablement, CO Rationalization, defining the next generation topology in an all-Fiber and all-IP ‘application centric’ infrastructure.

As the Chief Architect, he is presently the prime for SDN Architecture and Strategy for TELUS. Having lead a highly converged architecture from the core of the network to the edge over the past decade+, now he’s rationalizing convergence in the access sections of the network that leverages Cloud, Virtualization, and Softwarization, paving the way for massive connectivity for emerging technologies such as IoT.