REGISTER TODAY! Don't get crushed by changing video streaming habits. Join this webinar moderated by Multichannel News to learn how to cope with increases in video over your network. Experts at Ciena will explain how to:
- analyze the current state of your headend
- evaluate network edge technology,
- identify challenges, and
- create a transformation path.
This webinar will explore how to eliminate incompatible purpose-built infrastructure with a converged packet-optical approach. You will also learn how simplified edge networks offer cost-effective scalability, and have the potential to save millions on power and real estate costs.
Join Multichannel and Ciena on March 19th at 2:00 PM EST for this FREE webinar. REGISTER TODAY! | FEATURED SPEAKERS  Moderator: K.C. Neel
Debra Kaufman has covered entertainment technology for the last 26 years, for a range of publications including TV Technology, Television Broadcast, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, American Cinematographer, International Cinematographer Magazine, Wired, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times. She currently works with USC's Entertainment Technology Center and SMPTE. She has moderated panels and appeared as a speaker on panels at NAB, CES, HPA Tech Retreat, NATPE, Produced By and many other trade shows, consulted on post production, mobile entertainment and other topics and written white papers and other documents for leading companies in the entertainment technology space.
 Rick Dodd, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Marketing and Strategic Markets Development, Ciena
Rick Dodd is responsible for developing the value propositions for Ciena's portfolio of products and services, and providing strategic support to Ciena's global field operations and global products group. Mr. Dodd is also responsible for aligning Ciena's value propositions to the evolving needs of key strategic markets. Before rejoining Ciena in December 2010, Mr. Dodd served as both Vice President of Corporate Marketing and earlier as Vice President of Product Marketing for Infinera. Prior to Infinera, he was an Associate Partner at venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, where he was focused on networking and semiconductor startups and played a key role in KPCB's founding investment in Infinera. Earlier, Mr. Dodd was Director of Strategic Marketing at Ciena, which he joined through the company's acquisition of Lightera Networks, where he served as Director of Product Management. At the start of his career, he was in product management at Cisco Systems and held engineering and sales roles at WilTel.
 Glenn Calafati, Global Industry Marketing Leader - Content Industries, Ciena
As Director of Content Industries at Ciena, The Network Specialist, Glenn has responsibility for business development with the content industries segment. In this role Glenn consults with Cable Operators and Content providers on next generation network planning. Prior to joining Ciena, Glenn was Vice President of Product Development and Technology at Sidera Networks and held similar technology roles at Telx and LightPath. As Chief Engineer at Cablevision, Glenn led network planning and architecture defining core, access and distribution layers for carrier grade transport of services and applications. Glenn started his career with Verizon, holding several technology roles in operations.
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