Reza Toghraee

Reza Toghraee is a network and security expert. For the past 20 years, he has designed and deployed many large campus and datacenter projects, leveraging his skills in networking, security, virtualization, compute, and storage. He has worked with most networking vendors. In 2013, he started exploring the hardware and software of Ethernet switches, and was inspired to build an AVB (Audio Video Bridging) Ethernet switch by designing hardware and software protocols. Soon, he discovered SDN and early SDN controllers, and dedicated his time to promoting and contributing to SDN and the OpenNetworking communities. He is the director of ArpaWare Ltd in UK, a professional services and consultancy for SDN, NFV, network automation, network virtualization, and cloud projects.