Jean-Luc Beylat (President Bell Labs France & VP European Programs Bell Labs, Alcatel Lucent, France) Presentation Available

Abstract

5G is not only about speed, new air interface, enabling M2M…  It is about improving the performance for the consumer, enabling new types of applications and terminals and making the network more agile and optimum for each application. SDN and NFV promise many benefits and will revolutionize the way telecommunications networks are built and operated. Service providers will use virtualized networking and cloud technologies to automate many aspects of operations and management. They will meet the needs of the telecommunications market through faster service introduction, automated scaling of resources and the ability to continuously optimize resource allocation based on the results of sophisticated analytics-based algorithms. NFV and SDN are expected to create an environment that enables new business models and services, increased innovation, and prompts new vendors to enter the telecommunications market place. This will result in NFV creating new ways to monetize telecommunications infrastructure. This key note speech will address the expected benefits and also the technical and business challenges to be overcome for the future 5G Infrastructure.

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Jean-Luc Beylat is the current President of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France, Chairman of the Business Cluster for Systematic Paris–Region and  President of the French Association for Competitivity Clusters.

Jean-Luc first joined Alcatel in 1984 and worked on semiconductor lasers. In 1992 he launched various activities concerning WDM transmission.  In 1996 he was named as Director of Systems Departments and Optical Networks at Alcatel’s research centre. In 2000, he joined Alcatel Optic as Programme Director then as Vice President for network solutions.

Jean-Luc holds a PhD on semi-conductor lasers and their application, awarded by The University of Pierre Marie Curie (UPMC, France).