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Author: Dr. Ishwar Parulkar
Dr. Ishwar Parulkar is the Chief Technologist for Telecom and Edge Cloud at Amazon Web Services. In this role he is responsible for setting AWS technology strategy, defining new cloud services and initiatives to enable telco to transform to modernized, digital service providers. At AWS he has worked on cloud innovations such as edge services, building cloud native telco networks, and applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable telco transformation. Prior to AWS, Dr. Parulkar was in various technology leadership roles. As the Chief Architect for telecom business unit at Cisco, he developed several products from telecom routers, packet core, small cells and orchestration, automation technology. Before Cisco, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems leading technology inflexions in the industry like the first multi-core processor systems and first compute virtualization platforms in the industry. He started his career at Apple, working on Mac personal computers and devices. Dr. Parulkar holds an M.S. from Vanderbilt University and a Ph.D. from University of Southern California. In 2017, Dr. Parulkar was elected a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering for his seminal contributions to the field of communication networks and data center computing.
Maturity of 5G mobile packet core as a cloud workload
Today, Comcast announced that it will be running its 5G mobile packet core, developed by Nokia, entirely on the AWS public cloud. With this deployment, we have now reached a point in the evolution of the public cloud with capabilities to support network functions, where the 5G mobile core is now a mature and proven […]
Opening the power of telecom networks to AWS developers
Access to telecom networks through APIs Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are an integral part of modern software design and the foundation of microservices architectures. In the last year, telcos across the world have been enhancing their networks and offering APIs that provide access to network services, giving observability into and programmability of telecom networks. Under […]
Survey: Adoption, Barriers, and the Future of Generative AI in the Telco Industry
Half of surveyed telcos plan to integrate generative AI in the next two years and expect to increase spending by as much as six times. It’s no illusion: generative AI is everywhere. And here at AWS, we believe it’ll have a profound impact across all industries. Generative AI is the next wave of widespread adoption […]
How Communications Service Providers can leverage Cloud benefits securely
Over the last decade, telecom operators and network vendors have transformed communications networks from vertically integrated hardware and software systems to software Network Functions (NF) capable of operating on Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) hardware. We now stand at the cusp of the next phase of their evolution to cloud-native functions capable of taking advantage of the […]