Conversations With Dez

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Ulf Jönsson, Head of NFVI Portfolio Strategy Management at Ericsson, to talk about Network Function Virtualisation ( NFV ). In particular, what NFV is, why it is needed, where it fits in the grand scheme of the future of modern software defined infrastructure & software defined networks in the telco & carrier service provider world. Ulf Jönsson is responsible for the NFV Infrastructure solution & product portfolio strategy at Ericsson. He has had several leadership positions in Ericsson with business and strategic product management responsibility in areas such as NFV infrastructure, Telco Cloud, SDN, and IP & Broadband. He is currently driving the next generation Cloud Native infrastructure optimized for 5G telecom applications and Edge computing. Ulf holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Ulf shares insights into what the most important topics he and his team are discussing with custom