Partner at SDNCentral, Partner at Wiretap Ventures

Roy Chua

Entrepreneurial marketing executive with 20+ years of experience in enterprise SaaS, cloud computing, networking and security. Co-founded companies in the networking, security and identity management space, launching well-recognized award-winning products . Have held executive roles roles at early SDN companies such as XORP, and enterprise SaaS companies. Currently a partner at Wiretap Ventures, a management consulting firm that provides trusted advisory services to Fortune 500 firms and high revenue growth startups.

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Featured Interview: Radware CTO, Avi Chesla, Discusses SDN Strategy in Application Delivery And Security

By: Roy Chua Posted: May. 16, 2013

Avi Chesla is Radware’s CTO. As Chief Technology Officer at Radware, Mr. Chesla is responsible for leading the company’s strategic technology roadmap and vision. This includes laying the theoretical basis for future products and solutions, research and design of core product algorithms, evaluating OEM opportunities and representing the company’s technology and future plans to the industry. SDNCentral: Can you provide…

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Featured Interview: Deep-Dive into Juniper’s SDN Controller and Strategy with Ankur Singla, Former CEO of Contrail

By: Roy Chua Posted: May. 14, 2013

Ankur Singla is Vice President of SDN and Orchestration Systems at Juniper Networks. He formerly was CEO and co-founder of Contrail Systems, an SDN startup acquired by Juniper in December of last year. SDNCentral: Congratulations again on your acquisition! How has the acquisition been from your point of view? What’s the overall progress of the Juniper/Contrail integration? Ankur: “Thank you!…

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Interop 2013 SDN Round-Up

By: Roy Chua Posted: May. 14, 2013

Interop last week saw a number of announcements from both major vendors and startups, many focused on SDN, or at least had SDN in their bylines. With all the news flying around, we decided to put together a short round-up on some key announcements that caught our attention: Arista showed off its recently-announced 7500E switch, with strong support for VXLAN…

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Exclusive Interview: Yukio Ito Of NTT Communications on SDN Benefits

By: Roy Chua Posted: May. 07, 2013

Yukio Ito is a board member of the Open Networking Foundation and Senior Vice President of Service Infrastructure at NTT Communications Corporation in Tokyo, a subsidiary of NTT, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. SDNCentral: Ito-san, you were one of the earliest supporters of OpenFlow, and NTT has been at the forefront of SDN and OpenFlow production…

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What’s New at ON.Lab? An Open Conversation with Guru Parulkar, Bill Snow And Larry Peterson

By: Roy Chua Posted: May. 05, 2013

It had been some time since we last caught up with the team at ON.Lab, and after seeing their cool demos at the recent Open Networking Summit, we felt that it was probably time to catch up with the team of Guru Parulkar, Bill Snow and recent addition Larry Peterson over at the labs and find out what’s new, and…

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Breaking News: Arista Announces Cloud-Scale 7500 E Switch Enabling 1M VMs on One Flat Network

By: Roy Chua Posted: May. 01, 2013

Arista Networks today announced its 7500 ‘E’ Series switch that provides a 30Tbps non-blocking network fabric capable of forwarding 14 Billion packets per second, with at most 5 microseconds of latency between any two ports. Powered by a different family of Broadcom chipsets (from its Dune acquisition apparently) instead of the Trident 2, and unlike its 7150 switch based on…

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ONS 2013 Round-Up: Wrapping Up the Open Networking Summit

By: Roy Chua Posted: Apr. 25, 2013

With a sold-out attendance of almost 1,500 attendees, this year’s Open Networking Summit reflects SDN’s continued uptake in the networking industry. While Matt and I kept busy helping out with tutorials, SDN Idol, getting briefed by many SDN companies and chatting with enterprises and service providers, Curt Collins did a wonderful job of covering the two days of conference sessions—worth…

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Featured Interview with Nuage Networks CEO Sunil Khandekar

By: Roy Chua Posted: Apr. 11, 2013

Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) launched its spin-out Nuage Networks last Tuesday (April 2) with great fanfare, and to positive response from press, analysts and network operators. In creating an end-to-end vision for network virtualization encompassing the cloud datacenter and the WAN, Nuage blazed the trail for best practices on how an incumbent networking vendor should enter the SDN marketplace. SDNCentral had the opportunity to sit down…

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Must See at ONS 2013: SDN Plug-Fest and SDN Idol

By: Roy Chua Posted: Apr. 10, 2013

Like the rest of the SDN community, we at SDNCentral are looking forward to next week’s Open Networking Summit (ONS). The ONS is viewed by many to be the grandaddy of all SDN conferences. It was certainly the first one to focus exclusively on SDN. And while we’re seeing many other conferences pop up with SDN content, it’s the largest…

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Breaking News: OpenDaylight Finally Sees the Light of Day

By: Roy Chua Posted: Apr. 08, 2013

For readers who missed our series of OpenDaylight posts–starting with the original breaking news article by Matt that spurred lots of discussion in the community, the subsequent posts on some rumored details about the controller, Dell’s attempt to counter by starting an SDN initiative within the OMG (viewed by most industry analysts as being an ineffective blocking move), and finally…

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