Keynote: Accelerating the Pace of Innovation - Axel Clauberg, Vice President, Deutsche Telekom AG

Keynote: Accelerating the Pace of Innovation - Axel Clauberg, Vice President, Aggregation, Transport, IP (TI-ATI) & Infrastructure Cloud Architecture, Deutsche Telekom AG

The exponential Internet traffic growth is still one of the main challenges for the Telco industry. In the past, Moore’s Law has helped us to keep our production cost for the exponentially growing traffic under control. With Moore’s Law flattening out, we see a strong trend in the industry towards the disaggregation of hardware and software. From monolithic black-box solutions, we are moving towards a modular, best-in-class, flexible and open ecosystem, including an automated lifecycle management in true DevOps style. None of the Telcos can do this on their own – the success of this industry depends on collaboration. This presentation covers Deutsche Telekom’s strategy in Linux Foundation/Linux Foundation Networking Fund, ONF, TIP and other organizations to accelerate the pace of innovation for the telco industry.

About Axel Clauberg
Axel Clauberg joined Deutsche Telekom AG in September 2011. Within the Strategy & Technology Innovation team, Axel is responsible for Deutsche Telekom's IP End to End and Infrastructure Cloud architecture.

Axel has more than 35 years of experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry. Before joining DT, he had various international leadership roles at Cisco Systems.

Axel represents Deutsche Telekom in the Linux Foundation Networking fund governance board and the Telecom Infrastructure Project (TIP) board and is currently chairing the TIP board.