The OPNFV Project has formed an End User Advisory Group (EUAG) consisting of end-user organizations from both OPNFV members and nonmembers to provide technical guidance to the OPNFV developer community.
Founding members include:
- AT&T’s Toby Ford, assistant vice president of Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Architecture and Strategy; Bryan Sullivan, director of Open Source Strategy; and Steven Wright, lead member of Technical Staff
- British Telecom’s Milind Bhagwat, enterprise architect and technology strategy lead
- CableLabs’ Don Clarke, principal network architect; Randy Levensalor, lead software architect; and Tetsuya Nakamura, principal systems architect
- China Mobile’s Lingli Deng, project manager
- China Unicom’s Chuan Jia and Junjie Tong from the Network Technology Research Institute of China Unicom, Department of Network Technology Research
- Cox Communications’ Guy Meador, senior strategic architect; and Jeff Finkelstein, executive director of Advanced Access Architecture
- Deutsche Telekom’s Herbert Damker, senior expert, Group Technology
- Fidelity Investment’s Carlos Matos, director of global network architecture
- Liberty Global’s Uzari Firoze, manager, Business-to-Business Network Design
- KDDI’s Hajime Miyamoto, senior engineer and Kenichi Ogaki, assistant manager
- KDDI Lab’s Masanori Miyazawa, research manager
- Orange’s Morgan Richomme, NFV architect
- SK Telecom’s Jong Han Park, head of 5G Tech Lab, Network Technology R&D Center
- Sprint’s Serge Manning, senior technology strategist, Global Standards
- Telecom Italia’s Cecilia Corbi, standardization manager
- Telefonica’s Diego Lopez, senior technology expert
- Telia Company’s Johan Gustawsson, network architect, SDN and NFV
- Vodafone Group’s David Amzallag, group head of Network Virtualization, SDN and NFV; and Kodi Atuchukwu, network virtualisation architect, Vodafone Ocean
“The formation of the OPNFV EUAG will harness the knowledge and expertise of those responsible for actually running real-world networks as they deploy and scale,” said Heather Kirksey, director, OPNFV. “Feedback from the ecosystem using and deploying NFV is crucial to the future direction of OPNFV. Engaging these pioneers will help us address the most pressing pain points for the industry and build a platform with broad applicability.”