Ciena CTO Steve Alexander: Orchestration, openness and the value of choice

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Susan Friedman talks to Ciena CTO Steve Alexander about a wide variety of topics related to the future of how networks are built and managed. They cover the concepts involved in network and service orchestration, and scaling that orchestration to possibly tens of millions of elements in the networks.

Steve also talks about the move to openness and choice in how networks are built, and details the concept of a virtual network function (VNF) in networks built on SDN and NFV.

This interview was conducted on the show floor at MEF16.
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Ciena
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NFV, SDN, VNF
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