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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">For those of you interested in Software Defined Networking (SDN), we
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">are hosting an SDN meet-up in Melbourne to co-incide with Cisco Live. We are very excited to have as guest speaker Martin Foster, Cloud Product Architect, Pacnet (recently acquired by Telstra). The
beer will start flowing from 5:30pm, with Martin's talk commencing at 6pm. Kindly RSVP via the meetup site at: </span><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Australian-SDN-Meetup" style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.meetup.com/Australian-SDN-Meetup</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Details of the event are:</span><br style="font-family: Calibri;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><b>Speaker:</b> Martin Foster, Cloud Product Architect, Pacnet</span><br style="font-family: Calibri;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><b>Title:</b> Handing over the keys: handing control of a Telco scale network to its users</span><br style="font-family: Calibri;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><b>Date/Time:</b> Thursday 19 March 2015, 5:30pm – 7:00pm (social and drinks from 5:30pm, talk from 6:00pm)</span><br style="font-family: Calibri;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><b>Venue:</b> RMIT Electrical and Computer Engineering, Building 10, Level 8, Room 20, 376 Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia.</span><br style="font-family: Calibri;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><b>Speaker Bio:</b> Martin Foster is a Cloud Product Architect at Pacnet. He has been involved with SDN since joining the team that built the Pacnet Enabled Network platform and released it to market in
2013 (PEN, www.pacnet.com/pen/). He has a Master of Computer Science and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering.</span><br style="font-family: Calibri;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Looking forward to seeing you there!</span><br style="font-family: Calibri;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: Calibri;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Vijay</span></div>
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