Webinar

Rethinking Telco Infrastructure for the AI and 5G Era and Beyond

Available on-demand

60 Minutes

Telecom service providers are at a critical crossroads. Rising financial pressure is accelerating decisions around virtualization and infrastructure modernization - decisions that will define their readiness for AI, 5G and beyond.

Join us for this webinar to explore how legacy virtualization providers are raising the stakes, and how telcos are responding by shifting toward AI-native architectures. We’ll go beyond the cost savings of virtualization efforts, with an important look at the true value of building next-generation platforms powered by robust ecosystems that span networking, storage, compute, backup/disaster recovery, and public cloud.

Learn more about:

Why IT workloads tend to migrate more easily than network functions

What obstacles still stand in the way

How telcos can develop intelligent, scalable, secure, and sustainable infrastructure

And more

Speakers

Mitch Wagner

Chief Analyst, AI, Cloud and Data Center Technologies

Fierce Network

Mitch Wagner is Chief Analyst, AI, Cloud and Data Center Technologies, for Fierce Network Research. Wagner has been covering enterprise and telco technology for more than 30 years, including leadership positions at Light Reading and InformationWeek. He has also helped drive content marketing in a full-time position at Oracle and as a consultant for business-to-business technology companies for the data center, cloud platform, networking and security spaces. He lives in San Diego with his wife and too many pets. His editorial content for Fierce Network won a 2024 Eddie and Ozzie Award in the News Coverage category.

Shujaur Mufti

Senior Manager, Global Partners Solution Architecture Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, and Edge

Red Hat

Shujaur Mufti is a Global Head and Director in Red Hat's Telecom, Media, and Entertainment (TME) Partner EcoSystem Organization. He is responsible for managing a team of technical professionals, Partner SAs, to develop and deploy Cloud technologies utilizing Red Hat products and services, architecting a full stack of end-to-end solutions including partner products, from ideation to production with joint offers, globally and in close collaboration with Red Hat Geo/Regional and product stakeholders.

Shujaur has over twenty years of experience working in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Red Hat in 2022, he spent fourteen years at T-Mobile US leading high performing engineering teams, enabling 3GPP/non-3GPP architectures and technologies in the Telco 4G/5G domain. In addition, he led NFV Cloud strategy contributing to the company’s transition from legacy networks to the software defined cloud infrastructure. Shujaur has been granted over 30 Technology Patents in the US, Europe, and other foreign countries. He has been recognized as an IBM Industry Diamond for TME.

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