Lakshmi Mandyam serves as the Vice President of Product Management and Partner Ecosystems for the Service Provider and Edge BU where she owns the Telco Cloud offerings being delivered to Service provider and MSO customers. Prior to VMware, she has held various management positions in the Industry including at Arm where she was the VP of Automotive and the Sr. Director of Server Systems and Ecosystems where she led ARM’s initiatives on Servers and Networking infrastructures. Prior to ARM, Lakshmi worked in engineering, marketing, and management roles at various companies, including Freescale Semiconductor and ColdWatt, building technology for enterprise applications. She has a BSEE from the University of Texas at Austin.
Incumbent service providers transitioning to 5G have to navigate all sorts of constraints. Somehow, the groundbreaking new capabilities they’re building need to fit within pre-existing...
