Navigating the Future: 2024’s Emerging Trends in Enterprise Telecom – Lightyear Triple-T
Lightyear’s CEO & Co-Founder, Dennis Thankachan, will highlight the top trends impacting enterprise networks in 2024, including:
– Optimizing network costs in the post-pandemic economy
– The evolution from SD-WAN: SD-WAN 1.0 -> SD-WAN 2.0
– Satellite’s entry into the enterprise WAN: Starlink and beyond
– Balancing hybrid cloud strategies: reassessing public vs. private cloud
– AI’s impact on enterprise network infrastructure
In this session, Dennis will highlight the impact of each of these trends with corresponding data points, and provide recommendations on how best to navigate today’s enterprise network demands.
Dennis Thankachan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lightyear. Founded in 2019, Lightyear is a software platform that automates the enterprise telecom lifecycle, which today has nearly 400 enterprise customers and has raised ~$50M in venture capital. Prior to Lightyear, Dennis was a public equity investor at PointState Capital, and prior to that, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. Dennis is also an active investor and advisor to a number of high-growth software companies.
