Industry Events

MEF Excellence Awards
MEF Excellence Awards

Rosemary Cochran and Erin Dunne serve as MEF Excellence Awards judges.

Dallas, TX
October 2, 2023
MEF Global NaaS Event
MEF Global NaaS Event

Vertical Systems Group is a GNE Media partner and contributing Industry Analyst firm for this event. Rosemary Cochran and Erin Dunne serve as MEF Excellence Awards judges.

Dallas, TX
October 2, 2023
Light Reading Leading Lights Awards
Light Reading Leading Lights Awards

Erin Dunne is on the judging committee for The Leading Lights 2023, Light Reading’s annual awards program to recognize innovation and achievement in the global communications industry.

Virtual
September 1, 2023
SD-WAN and SASE Summit
SD-WAN and SASE Summit

Vertical Systems Group is a Media Partner for this Upperside event.

Paris & virtual
November 8, 2022
NetEvents Global Media Summit 2022
NetEvents Global Media Summit 2022

Erin Dunne chairs the Open Networks and the End of Legacy panel, discussing how the proprietary connectivity of the past is just not up to the complex challenges of a cloud-centric future and the rise of the open source network operating system.

Silicon Valley, CA
September 28, 2022
Cable Next Gen Digital Symposium 2021
Cable Next Gen Digital Symposium 2021

Erin Dunne moderates the Cashing in on the Cloud panel.

Digital
December 9, 2021
JSA Virtual Roundtable
JSA Virtual Roundtable

Rosemary Cochran chairs the JSA CEO Virtual Roundtable: Positioning Our Industry for the Next Phase of Digital Transformation: The Crossroads Between Hybrid IT Cloud and Edge. Vertical Systems Group is a Media Partner for this JSA event.

Virtual
November 18, 2021
Federations for Digital Transformation
Federations for Digital Transformation

The days of vanilla connectivity services are gone. In their stead, we see service providers offer increasingly complex and dynamic services combining connectivity, compute and storage with low latency and high levels of security. However, no one service provider has every single components of such services in its own inventory and so they will buy them from a wide range of partners in a very large, heterogeneous and competitive ecosystem.

This Infinite Edge episode explores how that ecosystem is built upon a federation of trusted and interconnected partners that can participate in complex service supply chains that deliver a multitude of cloud-based services in minutes rather than months.

In this sixth episode, Rosemary Cochran will join top experts to share their vision, experience, and expertise and address top-of-mind questions on this exciting market.

Digital
June 9, 2021
Business Fiber Trends - How Fiber Providers and Emerging Services Are Lighting Up the U.S. Landscape
Business Fiber Trends – How Fiber Providers and Emerging Services Are Lighting Up the U.S. Landscape

In this session of Fiber for Breakfast, Rosemary Cochran, Principal and Co-Founder, Vertical Systems Group, discusses how Fiber Providers are expanding the base of lit commercial buildings and data centers across the country, and outlines the key trends and services driving demand. Today’s U.S. Business Fiber landscape includes more than one million on-net sites, supplied by hundreds of retail and wholesale providers. The annual benchmark for measuring market leadership in this segment is Vertical’s Fiber Lit Buildings LEADERBOARD, which ranks the top providers based on fiber penetration rates. Latest research analysis shows that while the pandemic hampered installations during 2020, emerging services such as 5G plus opportunities in the small buildings segment will boost rollouts of new business fiber in 2021.

Fiber for Breakfast Webinar - replay available
May 26, 2021
NetEvents inter@ctive
NetEvents inter@ctive

This event, chaired by Erin Dunne, will consider the migration issues for enterprise customers and providers, including Telcos offering new value-added services alongside MPLS, plus the solutions offered by SD-WAN system vendors and the new generation of Cloud Networks and Services now entering the market.

Migrating MPLS Networks to the New Era of Cloud Networking
March 23, 2021