Sumithra Bhojan is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T with a focus on Technology Design and Architecture for Broadband Wireline Access systems and RAN Fronthaul Transport. In her current role in AT&T labs, she has been focused on AT&T’s vision of transitioning access technology architecture using SDN/NFV and open hardware and open software solution. She has been involved with the OCP community for the past three years and contributed several OCP specifications in the Telco group, that is suited for several use case projects developed in the Open Networking Foundation. She currently serves as a Co-Lead in the OCP Telco Project.