Introduction to NFV Evolution

Bruno Chatras is a senior standardization manager at Orange Labs and a member of the Orange experts’ community on Future Networks. He is the Chairman of the ETSI Industry Specification Group on Network Functions Virtualisation (ETSI NFV ISG) and the Chairman of the ETSI Technical Committee on Network Technologies (NTECH). Bruno has over 30 years of experience in the telecom industry and joined France Telecom / Orange in 1985, where he started his career by developing standards for GSM core networks. Since then he held several management positions within Orange, where he led the Intelligent networks R&D Unit and has been Vice-Chairman of the ETSI Technical Committee on NGN and ITU-T Rapporteur for Intelligent Networks. Bruno is the author of several patents and numerous papers and presentations in the area of network architectures and protocols. He is also giving regular lectures on network technologies at several universities and engineering schools in France.