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Frederic Trate

Marketing Manager

Service Provider Business Architecture, France

Frédéric Trate graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des

Télécommunications de Bretagne, starting his career in 1998

as a lobbyist for France Telecom Group at the European Commission and Parliament in Brussels. In 1999, he moved back to Paris as a Network Architect at France Telecom Group, where he was part of the team that built up the Internet backbone infrastructure to support the launch of ADSL services in France.

In 2000, he joined Cisco as a Systems Engineer supporting Orange's

affiliates. In 2002, he transitioned to a Sales role as Global Account

Manager in charge of managing and developing the commercial relationship with Orange¹s affiliates.

Since 2011, he's a Marketing Manager within the Service Provider organization.

Articles

March 8, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

How much time do you need to on-board a new device in your network?

2 min read

Discover Zero-Touch Provisioning to fast-track on-boarding of new network devices. This is automation at its best.

March 7, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Ethernet VPN – just one more protocol to consider or dismiss?

2 min read

EVPN is a unified control plane to provide Ethernet and IP VPN services in a scalable and simplified fashion. EVPN is based on industry standards.

October 3, 2016

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SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Any good reasons to visit The Hague this month?

1 min read

Of course, there are plenty of good reasons to visit The Hague! For those who’ve never been there before, The Hague (Den Haag in Dutch) is a city located in the western coast of the Netherlands. It is actually the seat of the Dutch government, but the city is not the capital of the Netherlands, […]

August 30, 2016

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SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Bringing Segment Routing and IPv6 together

4 min read

You may be pretty familiar with Segment Routing and I bet you’re likely tying it to MPLS as the industry at large has been mainly focused on driving awareness and adoption of MPLS Segment Routing. But did you know Segment Routing could work in a native IPv6 environment? Sounds interesting to you? Let’s first go […]

July 26, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Your competitors are using segment routing, don’t get left behind

2 min read

Segment routing is coming to a competitor near you and it will be a key element of the network infrastructure of the future. But what is it and how will it offer tangible benefits for you, the service provider? It promises to simplify network operation and ensure the best performance of vital applications on that […]

July 1, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Segment Routing is crossing the chasm with real live deployments!

2 min read

As stated in my previous blog on Segment Routing, 2016 marks an inflexion point in Segment Routing adoption. I’m not making this claim in a vacuum. This is actually grounded on multiple Service Providers’ feedback expressed during a Tech Field Day event on Segment Routing held last week in San Jose. Tech Field Day brought […]

June 10, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Is SNMP here forever or could it vanish sooner than expected?

2 min read

The first SNMP release came out in 1988. 28 years later, SNMP is still around… Will this still be the case in 10 years from now? Difficult to say but the odds are lower these days. Why are we predicting SNMP could go away? If you’re already savvy about SNMP, check out this blog for […]

May 24, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Supercharge Your Network with Segment Routing Innovations!

2 min read

MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress is already two months away. Time goes really fast! Once again, it was an awesome week with spot on content and great speakers – can’t wait attending the next one! As every year, Cisco had a booth with some nice demos and the ones related to Segment Routing clearly hit the mark! […]

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