Jennifer P. Clark was Vice President, Network Research for 451 Research. She headed the Network research practice, providing actionable insight into network technology and infrastructure, examining the challenges facing both enterprises and network operators in provisioning the local, wide-area and radio access networks, and the solutions and technology that will meet the demands of 4G and 5G mobile networking, cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT). Jennifer's personal areas of research included software-defined networks (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), network orchestration, mobile backhaul, network policy management, the Evolved Packet Core, DNS, IPv6, carrier Ethernet, and core and edge routers.
Jennifer started her industry research career with Yankee Group, which was acquired by The 451 Group in 2013. Prior to joining Yankee Group, she was Manager of Network Planning and Strategy for Wang Laboratories' corporate data network. She began her career at Wang with responsibility for the domestic and international rollout of Wang's packet network, connecting more than 250 locations in 14 countries. Before joining Wang, she was a member of the IT research and development division of Commercial Union Insurance Companies.
Clark is a highly regarded speaker at industry seminars and conferences, and is frequently cited by the commercial and trade press. She has been a guest lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is a member of the IEEE.
She holds a BA degree from Mount Holyoke College.
The company got the drop on router rivals with the world's first multi-terabit NPU silicon, the NP4, but speeds and feeds are ephemeral advantages in the networking space. Luckily, Nokia is able to back up its new silicon with a router product line with a single OS, a real-time cloud analytics engine and cloud-targeted control enhancements to its network services platform.
Carriers are finally lifting their heads up out of the weeds of their virtualized networks. However, they are finding that they can't integrate the new network into their existing operational and business support systems. This is what CloudSmartz is looking to resolve with SDxSuite.
The company's new SmartACCESS product extends it SD-WAN service to the mobile and nomadic enterprise workforce without friction. No client software is needed and the customer pays only for the mobile employees that connect through SmartACCESS.
The three segments of the network functions virtualization market are maturing at different rates. However, market dynamics in terms of consolidation among open source projects and the emergence of dominant players among today's orchestration deployments mean that the landscape is gradually coalescing around a handful of viable solutions.
Networking vendors Sonus and GENBAND have agreed to a merger. The core strength of both companies lies in helping their enterprise and service-provider customers transition to cloud and an all-IP world.
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