Javier Benitez

Javier Benitez is leading Colt’s SDN & NFV overall strategy and is the company prime at both ONF and ETSI ISG NFV bodies. His main areas of responsibility and research are SDN/NFV, Packet (IP/MPLS/Ethernet) and Optical networks. Javier holds a Telecommunications engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and a MSEE from Stanford University.

SDN & NFV – The beginning of a new era?

23 May 2014

There is a revolution going on; a revolution in networking, that is. Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) are the new concepts driving a major transformation of the industry, and both share a common theme: software (are…

Software-defined networking — the journey starts now

28 Nov 2012

At this year’s Gartner symposium in Barcelona, everyone was talking about software-defined networking (SDN) and how it promises to revolutionise the way IT works. Virtualisation and cloud technology have already transformed the way we provision compute and storage. But what…