Open Source Networking Days Taiwan

The software is increasingly playing the key role of network transformation in telecom industry and enterprise as well. It enables unprecedented levels of abstraction, disaggregation, and programmability in network infrastructures and services, so that the flexibility brings in a lot of innovations from open source community due to the avoidance of vendor lock-in. This keynote addresses how Chunghwa Telecom, the biggest fixed-mobile convergence service provider in Taiwan, continuously leverages OSS (Open Source Software) and applies innovative network softwarization technologies such as SDN and NFV, to realize network transformation and provide customers with high quality of software-defined LAN, WAN, and cloud services. Moreover, as a part of the digital ecosystem, this presentation describes the detail of how Chunghwa Telecom is dedicated to transforming into a software-defined digital partner by collaborating closely with industry and academia, and to create platform-based business models and a prosperous open digital economy.