Diego Lozano de Fournas serves as a technical marketing manager in Service Provider and Edge Business Unit in VMware . He has more than 20 years of experience in mobile network industry with a specialization in networks conception and architecture. Throughout all these years, Diego has helped service providers, infrastructure providers and network equipment vendors conceive, develop, implement and managing strategic testing solutions/applications that accelerate 4G/5G rollouts (ie; automated vNF/cNF lab validation, 5G Core & 5G RAN | ORAN integration, lab-to-live & CI/CD, active testing in production, active service assurance). Diego is involved in many industry forums and often participates in standard bodies in the form of conferences and contributions to specifications. Diego Lozano de Fournas earned a degree in Telecommunications Engineering by the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in 1998, and a Master Degree in Telecommunication Networks by Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Paris in 2000.
There are few debating that disaggregation of the RAN along with adoption of programmability will bring new monetization opportunities to the RAN. However, one question...
