Full Name
Pascal Menezes
Job Title
Chief Technology Officer
Company
MEF
Speaker Bio
Pascal is a proven technology thought leader with decades of experience in internetworking, next-generation information systems, and communication architectures. Pascal currently serves as Chief Technology Officer to MEF.
He is focused on SD-WAN, SASE, cloud scale architectures, real-time media networks, Software Defined Networks (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO). He is a former Principal from Microsoft Teams (Skype for Business) Global Carrier Group where he spent close to 10 years working on many real-time media and network technologies. Pascal has done five startups with multiple successes, has received numerous industry global thought leadership awards and has presented extensively in numerous events worldwide. Pascal holds 30+ patents/pending and has co-authored many standards in the IETF, MEF, and Broadband Forum (ie: MPLS).
He is focused on SD-WAN, SASE, cloud scale architectures, real-time media networks, Software Defined Networks (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO). He is a former Principal from Microsoft Teams (Skype for Business) Global Carrier Group where he spent close to 10 years working on many real-time media and network technologies. Pascal has done five startups with multiple successes, has received numerous industry global thought leadership awards and has presented extensively in numerous events worldwide. Pascal holds 30+ patents/pending and has co-authored many standards in the IETF, MEF, and Broadband Forum (ie: MPLS).