WAN's Role in the Cloud - Dynamic Optimized Bandwidth

Ms. Elizabeth S. Perry
Vice President Global Strategic Sales, Ciena

Cerent Engineering Science Complex, Salazar Hall 2009A
3:00 PM

Abstract – The success of public, private and hybrid cloud services will become increasingly dependent on their assured performance capabilities and the ability to respond dynamically to the user’s end application. The broad range of enterprise operational IT applications cannot benefit from the cloud until it offers high levels of performance and reliability on par with or better than those available within enterprise-owned data centers. Data Center Computing and Storage has been virtualized with great success. To complete the building blocks of cloud service delivery the Wide Area Network (WAN) must also be virtualized and bandwidth supporting the WAN must be dynamically optimized. With the WAN virtualized, distributed data centers are able to function as an efficient shared resource pool to address any magnitude of workload demand from anywhere across that geography with assured service performance. Finally, using Software Defined Networking (SDN) to manage the virtualized compute, storage, and network assets as one cloud we can automate resource orchestration on demand per application.

Elizabeth Perry is currently leading Ciena’s Strategic Sales organization focusing on solutions for Content and Media companies, such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. In addition, Ms. Perry is responsible for worldwide sales initiatives regarding Ciena’s Switching and Routing products. Prior to Ciena’s acquisition of Nortel Metro Ethernet Networking group, Ms. Perry was responsible for Ciena’s optical infrastructure and network management Product Research and Development. Previously, Ms. Perry served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Ciena’s Core Switching and Network Management Divisions, which introduced Ciena’s industry leading Core Director product line and ON-Center. With 25 plus years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Ms. Perry has held leadership positions with several Silicon Valley startups, VCs, Ciena, Hitachi and 15 years with Alcatel. Ms. Perry received both her B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Southern Methodist University.