Rob Tomkins has over 20 years of experience in product management and product, market, and corporate strategy to bring together technologies and markets. Highlights include MPLS, Internet, and Ethernet to the Large Enterprise and Telecom markets, Ethernet over Optical, Coherent optics into Cloud/Content Providers, SDN, Video & Application-Aware Networking Intelligence, and Closed Loop Automation, Network as a Service, Digital Transformation, and most recently Distributed Tracing, Partitioned Queues, and Solace to Kafka Bridges into the IT marketplace.