THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC.

COMMUNICATIONS & VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY SOCIETIES

2017 TECHNICAL LUNCHEON PROGRAM

Technical Presentation:

Building Programmable Networks of the Future
– Eddy Barker, AVP, AT&T Labs – Technology Design & Arch, Advanced Fixed Access Systems

DATE: Tuesday 19 December 2017

TIME: Luncheon starts at 11:30 a.m.
Main Presentation is from 12:00-1:00p.m.

**MEETING LOCATION**
Cafe Max
1600 Alma Road Richardson, TX 75081
Additional parking behind restaurant.

COST: Lunch
Students and IEEE Life Members: $5
IEEE Members: $10
Non-Members: $15

Please RSVP to Judah Epstein

Abstract:

This talk lays out what AT&T has learned and applied about SDN, NFV and Cloud technologies over the past 3 years and highlights our business objectives which are driven by opening our network and making it modular and programmable. We will discuss our engagements at Open Compute Project, Open networking Foundation and Linux Foundation. Those efforts have allowed us to take our Domain 2.0 programs to the next level and shows that the use of open source software and white box hardware helps to accelerate SDN/NFV adoption. AT&T expect to have 55% of our network virtualized by the end of 2017 and 75% of our traffic on our software-defined network by 2020.

Bio:

Eddy Barker
AVP Technical Design and Architecture at AT&T Labs
He oversees network architecture for AT&T’s Fixed Access broadband platforms supporting wireline and wireless technologies. Eddy’s responsibilities include managing a team responsible for the development and engineering of AT&T’s access network working closely with Standards Organizations and Open Communities in driving toward the enablement of Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization.

Eddy has 26 years’ experience in wireline and wireless communications and entertainment and has held numerous technical positions supporting Video and Data Services including Broadband Access. He has been responsible for design, testing, deployment and operations for AT&T’s Internet/MPLS network. Eddy has numerous patents within AT&T.

Eddy holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of KY, an executive MBA from Webster University, and a Masters in Electrical Engineering (wireless communications focus) from Southern Methodist University.