Sharon Barkai conceived of and began ConteXtream in 2006 after a career spent founding and managing highly successful technology companies. Before ConteXtream, he was Founder & CEO of Xeround Systems, which, by virtue of its innovative MapReduce approach to database performance and scalability, is a leader in the rapidly growing market for mobile subscriber databases and database as a service (DBaaS) Prior to Xeround, Sharon was Founder and CEO of Sheer Networks. Sheer Networks developed a highly successful cluster-based control & management plane for Consumer Broadband networks which was adopted by Tier 1 Operators worldwide. Cisco Systems bought Sheer Networks in 2005. Sharon began his career in Engineering, rising to Director of Engineering at 3Com. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Hebrew University, and MSc from Colombia University School of Engineering.
With the capability to reduce both CapEx and OpEx, it's easy to see why the
SDN-NFV trend has taken hold in the hosting and mobile industry. Early use
cases include network virtualization from cloud service providers and
enterprise data centers, bandwidth calendaring and network tapping. While
this early traction is promising and receiving great praise in the public
eye, some of the most promising deployments are being seen in the cable
multi-system-operator (MSO) industry. While these use cases aren't garnering
as much attention, they are equally interesting and have the potential to be
very powerful. There are several examples that demonstrate different
applications offered by MSOs modernized by SDN, such as TV Video on Demand
(VoD), voice, and data, which can be delivered in both native environments
and on top of these MSO applications, in different network locat... (more)
Sharon Barkai conceived of and began ConteXtream in 2006 after a career spent founding and managing highly successful technology companies. Before ConteXtream, he was Founder & CEO of Xeround Systems, which, by virtue of its innovative MapReduce approach to database performance and scalability, is a leader in the rapidly growing market for mobile subscriber databases and database as a service (DBaaS) Prior to Xeround, Sharon was Founder and CEO of Sheer Networks. Sheer Networks developed a highly successful cluster-based control & management plane for Consumer Broadband networks which was adopted by Tier 1 Operators worldwide. Cisco Systems bought Sheer Networks in 2005. Sharon began his career in Engineering, rising to Director of Engineering at 3Com. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Hebrew University, and MSc from Colombia University School of Engineering.
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