Franz Seiser
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Full Biography
Franz is Vice President and executive lead for 鈥淎ccess Disaggregation鈥 at Deutsche Telekom Group鈥檚 鈥淭echnology Architecture and Innovation鈥 unit. In his role he is in charge to drive the development and implementation of innovative, flexible and efficient network architectures for DT, covering both fixed and mobile networks; nowadays Franz has a very strong focus on open RAN, leading DT鈥檚 efforts to develop it towards a competitive deployable solution.
Prior to this role, Franz held various management positions in the area of mobile core network, infrastructure cloud and mobile network architecture in DT headquarters. Besides other tasks, he was deeply involved in definition, standardisation and introduction of 4G and 5G as well as Network Function Virtualisation (NFV).
