As part of the seminar of our Department's postgraduate program, on Thursday 16/05/2019 Mr. Giorgos Pigiakis, Systems Engineer at Cisco, will give a lecture.

Giorgos Pigiakis has more than 19 years of experience in the field of information technology. He has been working at Cisco as a Systems Engineer since 2007. Today he is the lead engineer for Cisco Enterprise Networking technologies in Greece, Malta and Cyprus. Before working with Cisco, he worked for Orange as an IN Design Engineer, and at Athens International Airport as a Telecommunications Project Leader. Giorgos studied Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Essex and holds an MSc in Communications Systems and Signal Processing from the University of Bristol.

The subject of the lecture is: “Basic principles of Intent Based Networking (IBN), architectures and Software Defined solutions.

A brief description follows:

The network is becoming a central pillar of businesses' digital transformation. The new demands that arise require a radical change in the fundamental networking principles that have been used for more than 20 years. Software Defined Access & Software Defined WAN automate the way we design, deploy and secure Campus & WAN networks, integrating new protocols and software-based solutions and programmable interfaces (APIs). How network management is evolving into NetOps and what new knowledge and skills network administrators must acquire to manage not network devices anymore but software components that compose a network and its security.

The speaker will be introduced by Mr. Ριζομυλιώτης Παναγιώτης, Assistant Professor of the Department.

The lecture will take place in the amphitheater of the building of the Department of Informatics and Telematics (Omirou 9, Tavros), at 6:00 p.m.

We would also like to remind you that the lecture is part of the Seminar and attendance by postgraduate students is mandatory. Undergraduate students and doctoral candidates of our department, as well as other University staff, may attend the lectures.

We would be especially pleased by your presence.