Chief Technologist at Red Hat will deliver "Upstream First: How open
source addresses the needs of communication service providers" on
November 12, 2015
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Chris Wright, Chief Technologist, Office
of Technology, Red Hat, will keynote the OPNFV
Summit in San Francisco, an event bringing together services and
networking providers in the telecommunications industry to work with
open source communities to advance and develop an open source NFV
platform.
Wright's keynote will focus on the evolution of network functions from a
base in hardware to a base in the cloud and how the industry can achieve
the service availability, security, automation, and scale necessary to
build a robust Network Functions Virtualization platform through
community innovation.
For more information on the OPNFV Summit and to see the full schedule
for the event, visit http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/opnfv-summit/program/schedule.
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