The Carrier Ethernet Group on LinkedIn is an independent collection of over 9,003 industry professionals from over 123 countries, whose goal is to advance their collective understanding of the technology, strategy, and business aspects of architecting and designing modern packet-networking services for both wireline and wireless networks, such as Carrier Ethernet, and emerging technologies, such as SDN, NFV, and the cloud, and to advance the telecom and networking industry as a whole. This, while allowing the Group’s members to grow in their knowledge and application of the technologies thus becoming better practitioners, and to contribute to the growth of their fellow Group members and the Carrier Ethernet industry.

The Group’s membership represents all aspects of the Carrier Ethernet eco-system and all-levels of involvement - executive management, engineering management, senior network architects, senior operations engineers, senior hardware and software engineers, field engineering, testing, product management, product marketing, sales engineering, network design consultants, field staff, industry analysts, media experts, researchers, faculty, and students from around the world.

The professionals come from all 6 inhabited continents and 2,236+ companies worldwide that represent hardware/chip vendors, carriers, operators, MSOs, CLECs, rural operators, regional operators, international providers, system vendors (large and small), startups, software providers, testing houses, integrators, OSS/BSS providers, testing labs., and testing gear providers. Plus, major analyst groups, university groups, and media groups.

The vibrant activity in the Group and its contribution to advancing an understanding of cutting-edge packet networking for its members and the larger industry has been recognized industry-wide, with the Group being invited to partner with leading industry organizations, such as the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley and the Metro Ethernet Forum, among others.

This is the only LinkedIn Group to have a broadcast of its own called “CE Live! ™- All the CE Without the BS! ™”, where technical and strategic industry issues are discussed.

The Group is moderated and managed by Dr. Vishal Sharma, Principal, Metanoia, Inc., a recognized networking & telecom expert who is called upon by clients across the telecom ecosystem for his deep technology strategy guidance.

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Conversations with Experts is a Metanoia, Inc. Signature Series, which we are proud to have launched in conjunction with our 10th anniverasy in June 2011!

(On June 5th, 2011, we completed 10 successful years in business, thus, achieving a milestone that we are modestly proud of -- a milestone made possible by the fine group of professionals we have had the privilege to interact with over these 10 years -- ranging from clients, customers, and patrons, to partners, collaborators, and professional colleagues from all segments of the telecom ecosystem on multiple continents, to friends and well-wishers, whose inputs, advice, and blessings have brought us this far!)

This is a unique series, designed to take a contemporary topic in telecommunications, and explore it in some detail with an industry authority or expert, deeply involved with that topic. The idea is to share insights, debate issues, discuss problems, evalute solutions -- in short, to provide a valuable capsule of knowledge and insight not easily available, in this form, from the more regular sources. Our goal, as always, is to advance understanding of our industry, it's complexities, it's systems and processes, and, above all, it's people!

The range of topics is as vast as our interests, and as rich as our industry -- ranging from hardware and software platforms/systems (switches, routers, cross-connects, optical gear), to software systems (for diagnostics, monitoring, managing, and configuring communication networks), to software tools (for planning, designing, testing, and evaluating telecom systems/networks), to ASICs, chips, and SOCs (that form the very heart of modern telecom systems), to infrastructure, and telecom network management. It includes technologies of yonder and those on the horizon, from SONET/SDH to 4G/LTE, and it encompasses perspectives from practitioners to researchers, to academics.

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   Metanoia, Inc. is pleased to currently offer the following episodes of our Conversations with Experts! (Please click the links below to jump to each Conversations with Experts Episode. Each episode contains an introduction, the episode description, and the expert's biography!)