{"id":6004,"date":"2014-08-12T18:56:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T10:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2014-08-12T18:56:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T10:56:22","slug":"mef-appoints-new-board-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2014\/08\/12\/mef-appoints-new-board-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"MEF appoints new Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MEF\"<\/a>The MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) has announced the results of the 2014 \u2013 2015 Board of Directors elections and subsequent appointments by the board. This leadership team will lead the MEF\u2019s continued efforts to accelerate worldwide adoption of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 services and technologies, and to advance global standards initiatives aligned with today\u2019s increasingly dynamic services environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

MEF president Nan Chen said, \u201cThe MEF has had an industry-defining year, with growth in membership, certified services, certified network equipment, and certified professionals. We are delighted to see accelerated use of CE 2.0 in every geographic region of the world and are particularly excited about the extraordinary popularity of the MEF Carrier Ethernet Certified Professionals program.The number of MEF-CECPs grew more than 160% to over 2,300 in the 12 month period ending June 30, 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n

MEF Board of Directors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vincent Alesi \u2013 Director, Regional Ethernet Services, Verizon
\nNan Chen \u2013 Executive Vice Chairman, CENX
\nScott Mansfield \u2013 Principal Engineer, Ericsson
\nAndrew McFadzen \u2013 Head of Global Marketing, Network Services, Orange Business Services
\nSteve Mood \u2013 Chief Technology Officer, Omnitron Systems Technology
\nEric Puetz \u2013 Director, Standards and Industry Alliances, AT&T Labs
\nRaghu Ranganathan \u2013 Principal, Office of CTO, Ciena
\nRobert Rockell \u2013 Vice President, Regional Engineering, Comcast
\nRalph Santitoro \u2013 Director of Solutions Planning, Emerging Markets, Fujitsu Network Communications
\nShahar Steiff \u2013 AVP Business Operations, PCCW Global
\nMichael Strople \u2013 President, Allstream<\/p>\n

Appointment of Board Officers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nan Chen \u2013 President
\nAndrew McFadzen \u2013 Chairman
\nEric Puetz \u2013 Treasurer
\nScott Mansfield \u2013 Secretary<\/p>\n

Appointment of Advisory Directors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bob Metcalfe \u2013 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin
\nAxel Clauberg \u2013 Vice President, IP & Optical, Deutsche Telekom AG
\nZhao Huiling \u2013 Vice President of China Telecom Beijing Research Institute, Director of the Cloud Research Center, China Telecom
\nJeff Schmitz \u2013 Executive Vice President, Spirent Communications, Inc. and Chairman of the CloudEthernet Forum
\nJames Walker, Vice President, Managed Network Services, Tata Communications and President of the CloudEthernet Forum<\/p>\n

Appointment of Committee Co-Chairs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Technical \u2013 Raghu Ranganathan, Ciena and Mike Benchek, Siama Systems
\nCertification \u2013 Eric Puetz, AT&T and Sachin Vasudeva, Juniper Networks
\nService Operations \u2013 Shahar Steiff, PCCW Global and Allan Langfield, Comcast
\nGlobal Marketing \u2013 Matthew Duckworth, Verizon, Mark Durrett, Overture Networks, and Ralph Santitoro, Fujitsu Network Communications<\/p>\n

A communications industry alliance consisting of more than 225 member organizations, the MEF is the defining body for Carrier Ethernet and the driving force behind the global market for Carrier Ethernet services & technologies. The MEF operates through a collaborative framework where service providers, network solutions suppliers, and other member companies contribute to the development of technical and operational specification, certification, and marketing programs.<\/p>\n

For more information about the MEF \u2013 including details about services, network equipment, and professional certification \u2013 visit www.MetroEthernetForum.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With a target audience of nearly 1,500 attendees, GEN14 will bring together a global array of industry executives and other CE, SDN, Network Functions Virtualization, and Cloud experts from across the CE ecosystem to contribute to the event\u2019s program and networking opportunities.<\/p>\n

For event registration and other information, see www.gen14.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) has announced the results of the 2014 \u2013 2015 Board of Directors elections and subsequent appointments by the board. This leadership team will lead the MEF\u2019s continued efforts to accelerate worldwide adoption of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 services and technologies, and to advance global standards initiatives aligned with today\u2019s increasingly dynamic services environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1779],"tags":[477,471],"class_list":["post-6004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-headlines-2","tag-mef","tag-metro-ethernet-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}