Dr Walter Kozlowski

Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) - Opportunities and Challenges

By Dr. Walter Kozlowski, Manager of NFV Architecture at Telstra and Adjunct Associate Professor at UNSW

When: Fri, 27 July, 11:30am – 12:30pm

Where: 008.08.045 (map)

Abstract: In this talk, Dr Walter Kozlowski – Manager of NFV Architecture at Telstra and Adjunct Associate Professor at UNSW - will discuss the current state of Network Function Virtualisation from the point of view of key opportunities and challenges created by NFV. The key questions to be discussed during the seminar:

  • What is NFV?
  • What benefits are expected from NFV?
  • How mature is NFV?
  • What are the main challenges on the road to the network virtualisation?
  • Security aspects of NFV: advantages and challenges.

Bio: Dr Walter Kozlowski – publishing also as Wojciech M. Kozlowski - has been actively involved in research activities in mathematics and applications since the 1980s with a particular interest in functional analysis, fixed point theory and applications. A Fulbright scholar, an author of a monographic book “Modular Function Spaces”, co-author of “Fixed Point Theory in Modular Function Spaces”, and of numerous scientific papers, he has held several academic posts at the universities around the world, currently as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of New South Wales in Sydney and a research collaborator of CARMA (Research Centre for Computer-Assisted Research Mathematics and its Applications) at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. In parallel, Walter has been pursuing a professional career in Information and Communication Technology with over 20 years of increasingly responsible experience within leading global organizations, as well as leading large-scale transformation projects for clients in the telecom and media industries worldwide. Currently, he is the Manager of Architecture at Telstra NFVi (Network Function Virtualisation Infrastructure) organisation, leading the cutting edge technology transformation of Telstra’s network into a virtualized, software-controlled, data centre implemented telco cloud infrastructure. Previously, he occupied a position of the principal of the global telecommunication consulting practice at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.