Ralph Santitoro

Ralph Santitoro is a MEF founding member, board member and Distinguished Fellow who regularly contributes to projects in all MEF committees. Ralph created the MEF’s Carrier Ethernet Professional Certification Program , co-developed the MEF-CECP exams and co-authored the industry’s first MEF-CECP exam study guide. Ralph was editor of MEF 6, the industry's first Ethernet Services Definitions specification, and authored the MEF’s Ethernet services primer with over 100,000 copies downloaded. Ralph has been a catalyst behind the MEF’s Third Network Vision transforming the organization’s scope to define multi-layer, multi-domain, Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) automated via lifecycle service orchestration (LSO). Over the past 10 years, Ralph has lectured and conducted seminars at over 70 international events and has published over 30 papers covering Carrier Ethernet, NaaS, Virtual Network Services, Network Virtualization, SDN, LSO, Cloud Computing, QoS, and Cybersecurity.