Syed Farrukh Hassan has been designing and deploying networks for over 20 years. In his current role as principal telecommunications architect at Red Hat Syed provides consultancy services to global 5G customers. Prior to that Syed worked as a senior solutions architect in the Cisco professional and consulting services organization providing guidance strategy and planning support to various Internet cloud and mobile service providers in their adoption of innovating networking technologies and transformation of their networks to new architectures. Syed co-authored one of the first books on NFV and SDN has been a regular speaker in public forums and conferences and is recognized as a Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker. Syed is a double CCIE in Service Provider and Data Center technologies ( 21617) Google Certified Professional Cloud Networking Engineer and Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from NED University (Pakistan) and a master's degree in engineering from the University of Florida Gainesville (USA). Alexander Orel has more than 20 years of experience in designing deploying and supporting largescale transport networks for major Internet and mobile service providers. He has worked as a lead network engineer and senior network designer in various system integration companies and Internet service providers. Alexander spent a significant part of his career as a solutions architect in the Customer Experience New Product team at Cisco Systems where he specialized in IOS XR-based platforms NFV technologies Segment Routing application-driven networks EVPN and other bleeding-edge technologies. Recently Alexander joined the Global Networking team at Google where he continues to apply and expand his knowledge of large-scale networks. Alexander has a master's degree in applied mathematics and physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and holds CCIE certification 10391 in R&S and DC. Alexander has been a frequent presenter at various technology conferences such as Cisco Live and Cisco Connect and was recognized as a Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker. Kashif Islam is a 20+ year veteran in the IT industry and has architected several complex large-scale networks for some of the largest wireline and mobile service providers across the world. He is currently a Principal Telecommunication Architect in Red Hat's consulting organization and is tasked with helping service providers transform their existing mobile infrastructure into next-generation cloud-native 5G networks. Prior to his work with Red Hat Kashif was a senior solutions architect at Cisco Systems. During his tenure at Cisco he devised strategies and provided technical leadership to service providers in modernizing and transforming their existing mobile backhaul networks into xHaul to support Cloud RAN architectures and new 5G services. Kashif is a Distinguished Speaker at industry events such as Cisco Live Society of Cable and Telecommunication Engineers (SCTE) and others. He has also co-authored Open RAN (O-RAN) Alliance's xHaul Packet Switched Network Architecture Specification. Kashif is a double CCIE ( 14300) and holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi Pakistan as well as a Master of Engineering in Internetworking from Dalhousie University Canada. Kashif lives in Raleigh North Carolina with his family and when not working enjoys hiking in the Blue Ridge mountains. . Language: English