Sandvine names automation chief
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Michelle Clancy
| 20 April 2018

Network performance specialist Sandvine has appointed Kamakshi Sridhar as VP, Automation Innovation.

Bringing almost 20 years of experience from a range of technical positions at Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent and Bell Labs, Sridhar will be responsible for providing strategic engineering leadership, technology vision and innovation process execution for Sandvine's network automation and artificial intelligence (AI) endeavours.

As the VP of Automation Innovation, Sridhar will leverage her machine learning, network automation, 4G network experience and 5G knowledge to lead the team focused on building demonstrable network automation use cases for the company, which works with pay-TV and wireless operators to guarantee quality of experience for subscribers. These use cases will take inputs such as network, service, application and user behaviour that is made available by Sandvine's Active Network Intelligence solutions and develop workflows that will automatically make the network more cost-efficient, the company said.

“Kamakshi has the ability to understand the pain points of network operators and will help us develop solutions that use network automation and machine learning to enhance the quality of experience for subscribers and reduce the costs associated with running a network,” said Alexander Havang, CTO at Sandvine.