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Christian Thomas

Head of Pre-sales engineering

Global Service Provider,Cisco France

Christian Thomas heads up the pres-sales engineering team in France in the Global Service Providers organisation.

Christian started his career at EMC as software Engineer in Systems (Unix, TCP/IP) before becoming one the first CCIE in France in the mid 1990s.

During his tenure, Christian worked on the design of large networks for both Enterprises and Service Providers.

Christian has spent the last 16 years at Cisco in various management positions supporting Enterprise, Cloud and Service Provider Infrastructure focus areas.

One of his recent focus has been on talent development and up-scaling of the Cisco Service Provider pre-sales teams with the end objective to respond to major technology transitions such as SDN and NFV, for the benefit of the customer.

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November 9, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Avoiding Physical and Digital Traffic Jams

For as long as anyone can remember, making a car trip has involved the risk of hitting a traffic jam. Your journey might grind to a standstill for any number of reasons: bank holiday traffic, unexpected roadworks – or a local street party you never knew about… But new developments in traffic managem…

November 2, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Welcome to the Networking App Store

Modern network technology makes lots of things possible: more efficient data transport, advanced analytics, better security, and more. But turning these features into profitable services has always been a challenge. Established ways of configuring services, which involve custom coding and manual pro…

October 31, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

We’re All in the App Business Now

If you thought that the internet has come to dominate our lives, you should see what’s coming next. More web users and devices, faster broadband speeds and the continuing explosion of video are all contributing to global digital transformation. What’s more, everything from cities to cars is becoming…