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Accedian has collaborated with AvidThink, a research and advisory firm, and the powerhouses behind the world's first production mobile edge computing platform, AWS and Verizon, to establish a forum where we will discuss performance assurance at the mobile edge.

This webinar offers tangible and useful lessons on how to best take advantage of mobile edge computing for:

  • Enterprises looking to understand how their applications might perform on the mobile edge
  • Service providers seeking to understand how to best architect and assure their mobile edge offerings 
  • Developers building for the edge today

Learn from the experience of the innovators:

  • How AWS and Verizon jointly architected and built AWS Wavelength for performance
  • Accedian's methodologies and solutions for assurance of mobile edge performance
  • Analysis of results from AvidThink's tests on AWS Wavelength
  • Key lessons learned from mobile edge tests
  • Strategies for ongoing assurance in mobile edge platforms
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Richard Piasentin
Chief Strategy & Chief Marketing Officer, Accedian

As Chief Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer, Richard is responsible for Accedian’s strategic planning process and investment priorities, ensuring the creation and development of a consistent brand communications and marketing strategy, and drives Accedian’s commercialization efforts in the areas of global product pricing, solution marketing, and business development.

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John Hickey
Director of MEC Planning & Architecture, Verizon

In his role as Director of MEC planning in Verizon, John Hickey is responsible for driving the technical strategy and architecture of distributed multi-access edge computing platforms through collaboration with Verizon's Cloud Service Provider partners. For the last 10 years he has helped to evolve Verizon's network monitoring strategy with each new major technological step from 4G to Voice Over LTE to 5G and now MEC.

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Bala Thekkedath
Head of Product Marketing, AWS

Bala Thekkedath leads Product Marketing for AWS Wavelength and 5G Edge Computing at Amazon Web Services. Bala brings over 28 years of experience in the telecom and networking industry, and a breadth of experience that spans product marketing, product management, pre/post sales consulting and engineering roles. He has previously worked at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Ericsson, and Nokia (Lucent).

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Roy Chua
Founder & Principal. AvidThink

Roy Chua is founder and principal at AvidThink, an independent research and advisory service formed in 2018 out of SDxCentral's research arm. Roy was previously co-founder at SDxCentral where he ran both the research and product teams. Roy was formerly a management consultant working with both Fortune 500 and startup technology companies on go-to-market and product consulting.