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This year's APAC event combined both press and service provider summits which ran coterminously at the JW Marriott Hotel, Phuket, Thailand. Software-defined networking (SDN) was a major topic, occupying most of the first morning of the two-day event. Among the key speakers were Rick Bauer, Managing Director, Technology, Open Networking Foundation who updated the conference on why service providers should be considering SDN. Read more

NetEvents Phuket 2013: Day Two blog The second day of NetEvents opened with a guest speaker presentation by Doug Schultz, VP of Asia Pacific/Japan, FireEye, entitled Proactive strategies against today's new breed of cyber attacks. Read more

NetEvents Phuket 2013: Day One blog The 2013 APAC combined press and service provider summit, held in Phuket, Thailand, opened with a keynote from Rick Bauer, Managing Director. Technology, Open Network Foundation. Read more

Guest Speaker Presentation by Nan Chen, President, MEF - A Vision for Networking

The second day of the event opened with Chen presenting his vision for networking. His core theme was around the ability of the public service telephone network to offer the highest levels of reliability and service and fast interconnection, anywhere on the globe.

"You can always reach someone, no matter how many carriers are in the way," he said. The quality of service is guaranteed though by limiting the number of users."

In contrast, he said, today's Internet technologies cannot come close to that, instead being non-deterministic and often slow to connect. Read more

NetEvents Portugal 2012 opened with a keynote from the CEO of South African telecommunications provider, Neotel. Sunil Joshi's presentation, entitled Emerging markets - New technologies, new opportunities, new business models, discussed how mature markets, such as the USA and Europe, could learn from the leapfrogging of older technologies that less developed countries have achieved. Read more

The NetEvents EMEA Press & Analyst Summit commences tomorrow in the Algarve. Keynotes include Sunil Joshi, Managing Director and CEO, Neotel (and board member of Tata Communications) presenting on “Emerging Markets – new technologies, new opportunities and new business models” plus Arpit Joshipura, Vice President of Dell Networking on “Networking the Virtual Enterprise” in addition to these keynotes there is a great line-up of speakers from organisations such as Alcatel-Lucent, Aerohive, CA, HP, Enterasys, Extreme, IBM, IBMC, MEF, Mobile Iron, Tata Communications, Verizon, EANTC, EuroLAN, Metis, Gartner, IDC, Ovum, 451 Research, Quocirca and many more. Topics for discussion and debate include current industry trends such as Software-Defined Networking, BYOD, Mobile Cloud, CIO Challenges, LTE/4G networks and much more….see line-up below. Read more

Debate VII: Analysing the Analysts - It’s take-away time

Introduced and Chaired by Manek Dubash, Editorial Director, NetEvents

Panellists: Jose F Otero, President, Signals Telecom Consulting, Courtney Munroe, Group Vice President, WW Telecommunications, Mobility & Network Infra- structure, IDC; Peter ffoulkes, Research Director, Servers and Virtualization TheInfoPro Read more