CenturyLink Executive, Pieter Poll, to Deliver Opening Keynote at OSP EXPO 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Colorado Convention Center
Denver, CO
Pieter Poll
Senior Vice President – National Network Planning, Engineering and Construction
CenturyLink
With more than 24 years of experience in the industry, Pieter Poll oversees the planning, engineering and construction of CenturyLink’s national and international networks to support capabilities for hosting; LD voice and VoIP; data, transport and fiber networks; cloud-based services and distributed functions. He also leads a team that performs vendor technology management on behalf of Network Services. Previously, he served as CTO for Qwest and was responsible for the strategic technology direction of the company. He oversaw the evolution of the network and technologies used to manage the network layers and drive future products and services.
Poll also served as Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Mahi Networks and was responsible for corporate technology and strategy. Pieter played an integral role at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the development of architectural and evolutionary plans for digital switches and the AT&T long distance network. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Telecom Management at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. He participates on the Advisory Board for the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado – Boulder. In 2009, Poll was awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award.
CenturyLink is the third largest telecommunications company in the United States. The company provides broadband, voice, wireless and managed services to consumers and businesses across the country. It also offers advanced entertainment services under the CenturyLink™ Prism™ TV and DIRECTV brands. In addition, the company provides data, voice and managed services to enterprise, government and wholesale customers in local, national and select international markets through its high-quality advanced fiber optic network and multiple data centers. CenturyLink is recognized as a leader in the network services market by key technology industry analyst firms, and is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises through Savvis, a CenturyLink company. CenturyLink’s customers range from Fortune 500 companies in some of the country’s largest cities to families living in rural America. Headquartered in Monroe, La., CenturyLink is an S&P 500 company and is included among the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest corporations. For more information, visit www.centurylink.com
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