Thang Vu Duong, Chief NGN and CDN architect, Orange, France
Chief NGN & Content Network Architect. Head of CORE Audiovisual (including Content Delivery) Program
Orange FT Group
Define and implement strategies on E2E architectures of infrastructure supporting the Orange Group’s Content services on multiple-screens over multiple-accesses (fixed-wireless-mobile) for both managed and open Internet contexts.
Conduct (at R&D side) studies on architectures and guarantee their global consistency, their respective equipment policy (via RFI/RFP) and their implementations within the Orange Group (e.g. iTTM Content Delivery Architecture, TTMs CDN GxR0, etc.).
Strategic and technical supports for the “Orange Group Content Delivery Networks” project.
Share expertise by leading and contributing to strategic presentations, white papers and position papers on evolution of fixed, wireless and mobile infrastructures supporting content services. Members of technical (& reviewing) committees of ICC/GlobeCom conferences.
Strategic and technical support for International Business Development in Emerging countries.
Conduct a Ph.D. thesis on Content Distribution in wireless networks.
Winner of the Orange Labs Awards 2011 (category: Network) with the “Enable Content Delivery with Better QoS and Cost Saving for the Group” project.
Chief NGN & Content Fixed & Mobile Network Architect
Orange FT Group
Author (at R&D side) of end-to-end network architectures for supporting IPTV services of Orange Group in Spain, UK and the Netherlands.
Principal network architect (at R&D side) conducting network studies for Fixed and Mobile Audiovisual services in France and their evolution strategy toward IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Report to the Orange Group's Technological Choice Committee.
Conduct the elaboration of multi-services-enabled network architecture scenarios and share network architecture expertise within Orange Group via internal transversal seminars and training structures.
Strategic and technical support for International Business Development and Sofrecom in Emerging countries.
Author and lead of the development of low cost IPTV platform (O!TV)
Conduct a Ph.D. thesis on QoS optimization in Wireless ad-hoc networks.
Members of technical (& reviewing) committees of main telecoms conferences (WTC, ICC, GlobeCom, etc.); Assessor of some research projects of City University of Hong Kong.
NGN and IP Network Architect
Orange FT Group
Design and provide referential technical documents on Orange's IP networks;
Conduct Orange transversal working groups on IP network architecture evolution for supporting new services (Voice, TV/VoD, wholesale, etc.) and their convergence. Report to the Orange Group's scientific council.
Technical support to Orange Affiliates on multi-services-enabled telecoms networks.
Education - ENSEEIHT (a leading French 'Grande Ecole' specializing in technology)
Ph.D., Computer Science and Telecommunications
Activities and Societies: - Distinction: very honorable with congratulation from the jury for "the best Ph.D. thesis" prize (highest level of distinction for a Ph.D.)
