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Kirk McBean
Director, Systems Engineering and Architecture
Service Provider
Kirk is a director responsible for leading a highly skilled team of senior architects and systems engineers focused on Service Provider and Enterprise technologies. The team assembles solutions for Telco Cloud (SDN and NFV), Collaboration, Next Generation Access (Universal CPE and SD-WAN), Data Center, Optical Transport, IP Core and Edge network, 4G and 5G networks and Analytics, Assurance and Automation solutions.
He engages with senior Cisco engineering leadership and product management teams to drive service provider requirements directed at developing referencing architectures necessary to capture key market transitions. Kirk also simplifies technical complexities in order to deliver comprehensive messages and strategy to senior leadership at Cisco, customers and partners.
He is a creative and driven technology leader with over 20 years of proven industry experience who is focused on developing broad architectural strategies to gain a competitive edge and increased revenue by identifying customer needs and advising on technologies that solve business problems and enhance capabilities.
Articles
5G Will Give Mobile Carriers a Pass into the B2B World
The advent of 5G networks is often referred to in bald terms as not much more than a speed upgrade. Nothing could be further from the truth: 5G changes pretty well everything in the way people (and businesses in particular) will use cellular networks.
5G New Radio support incredibly fast data rates,…
How 5G Will Make the Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) Model a Reality
Cellular networks have become an important connectivity asset for businesses, allowing them to support mobile workers and devices that sit outside the enterprise. Despite the importance of connectivity, mobile networks have been limited in their ability to provide unique experiences for different ty…
