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Victor Bahl: Technical Fellow and CTO Azure for Operators, Microsoft  

Victor Bahl is a technical fellow and chief technology officer of Azure for Operators in Microsoft’s strategic missions and technologies division. Prior to this, he was the founding director of networking research in Microsoft and a member of the senior leadership team in Microsoft Research. With over 30 years of industry experience, Dr. Bahl advises Microsoft’s CEO and senior leadership team on long-term strategy related to 5G, edge computing, cloud infrastructures, networked systems, mobile computing & wireless systems. He is the original inventor of the edge computing architecture and thought leader behind Microsoft’s edge computing products. He is also the architect of the strategy that led to the creation of Azure for Operators business.

Dr. Bahl has delivered numerous foundational technologies to Azure, XBOX and Windows that span industry shaping new datacenter architectures, new networking protocols and optimizations, new network management systems and new consumer experiences.  His technical contribution and advocacy of dynamic spectrum access led to the United States FCC opening up 180 MHz of spectrum for unlicensed use. He has published over 125 papers with over 68,000 citations; he is the author/co-author of close to 200 patents, and for his professional and research leadership has received numerous prestigious awards including four lifetime achievement awards, three test of time awards and many best paper awards from world-leading technical professional societies.  He is the founder/co-founder of ACM SIGMOBILE, MobiSys, GetMobile and several other important conferences and journals. Dr. Bahl is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.


Priorities as a board member:

Victor’s strategic thinking and entrepreneurial spirit along with his understanding of setting up some the most important trends in the industry and the scientific community will help ONF win the thought leadership and get wins for the many technologies we are developing. He will help translate technical ideas in vRAN, SONET and programmable switches, Core and NFVs, SD-WAN etc. into concreting actionable projects that address the needs of the telecommunication operator. Victor will work on shaping ONF projects to incorporate ML/AI technologies towards self-optimizing and self-management behaviors. He did similar things in Microsoft, moving the company into cloud by infusing technology and talent into product groups creating Azure networking and more recently edge computing and now the new telecommunications business, where he serves as CTO.  He will apply his knowledge and experience of moving research into advanced development into products to ongoing and new initiatives within ONF. He will help establish collaborations with hyperscalers, ONF members, venture capital community and academic researchers to help create a common open-source infrastructure for the telecommunications and cloud industries based on the latest and newest networking technologies.


Victor will bring his deep technical knowledge of wireless and mobile systems, along with datacenters and edge infrastructures and networking along with services and applications to technologies being developed in ONF. This will make ONF better prepared to influence the mindshare of our target consumers. He will focus on bringing the telecommunication and cloud companies closer, so they adopt each other’s best technologies to create a networking and edge infrastructure that is smart, robust, reliant and to a large extent future proof.  


Ahmed Rady: President and CTO of Open Valley Solutions 

Mr. Ahmed Rady, President and CTO of Open Valley is responsible for building a world-class organization that provides services (architect, design, build, implement and operate) CSPs, MNOs and technology partners with solutions involving Software Defined Networking (SDN), Open RAN, Open Cloud native Core, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Edge Computing and End-to-end network Automation & orchestration.

Drove end-to-end network design and deployment to meet coverage, capacity, and performance needs of MNOs and largest green field LTE/5G networks, supporting industry leading data connectivity and innovative services such as FWA, VoLTE/HD Voice, RCS, eMBB, URLLC, Network Slicing and MEC Platforms. conceptualized, developed, and launched a disruptive next-generation SaaS platform which encompasses artificial intelligence (AI), scalable real-time machine learning models, strategic insights, and other meaningful Big Data Science techniques.

Mr. Ahmed Rady is an active member and contributor of the below global organizations and standard bodies:

Professional Experience: 

  • President and CTO - Open Valley Solutions

    • Building a world-class organization that provides services (architect, design, build, implement and operate) CSPs, MNOs and technology partners with solutions involving Software Defined Networking (SDN), Open RAN, Open Cloud native Core, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Edge Computing and End-to-end network Automation & orchestration.

  • Head Solution Architect - MSI-UK (Mobile Systems International)

    • MSI Group's Global Office Head Solutions Architect. Responsible for providing thought leadership and technical architecture capabilities to align the Technology, Network Operations data, and voice telecommunications services at the client with the overall Technology Strategy and in line with industry best practices.

  • End-to-end Solution Architecture - Rakuten Mobile Japan
    • Lead the End-to-end Design team to build the first 4G/5G Open RAN Cloud Native Network in Japan and define the deployment strategy for Rakuten Mobile's commercial launch in 2020. Led the Design team in laying the groundwork for RCP "Rakuten Communication Platform" Zero-touch Provisioning and Self-driven Networks based on AI/ML and Data Analytics capabilities.
    • Member of the NEDO Project, to build the most advanced telco Lab in Tokyo University with collaboration with Rakuten Mobile to test and validate the most advanced telco use cases, e.g. (Network Slicing, MEC platforms, E2EO “end to end orchestration”, Open RAN, 5G Core, local breakout and content cashing..etc). In Germany, he leads the delivery team for drillisch 1&1 Open RAN and 5G Deployment.
  • RF Planning and Optimization Manager - NOKIA
    • Leading the RF Design and Delivery team across many countries and MNOs in the MENA Region: 
      • Lebanon – MNO (Touch). Egypt – MNO (Telecom Egypt). UAE – MNO (Etisalat Group). Egypt – MNO (Orange). 
  • RF Planning and Optimization Manager - Huawei
    • Leading the RF Design and Delivery team across many countries and MNOs in the MENA Region: 
      • Morocco - MNO (INWI). Libya - MNO (Libyana). Egypt - MNO (Etisalat Misr). 




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