ONUG Connect: The AI-Era Enterprise WAN Marketplace
ONUG Connect is the industry’s first enterprise-driven, API-first WAN connectivity platform, designed to transform how organizations discover, compare, procure, and manage wide-area network services. Born out of the ONUG Collaborative WAN Connectivity API Working Group — co-chaired by leaders from Citigroup and Evernorth alongside Global 2000 enterprises, telecom carriers, and NaaS/SD-WAN vendors — ONUG Connect unifies over 400 service providers across 2.2 billion locations globally into a single, automated marketplace. The platform replaces the legacy, months-long RFP-driven procurement cycle with real-time service discovery, multi-provider comparison (in a “Google Flights” model for connectivity), and API-driven ordering and provisioning, compressing timelines from weeks down to minutes or hours. This session will provide a overview of the platform’s key capabilities.
Tony Farinacci recently retired from JPMorgan Chase after 22 years of service in executive leadership roles including CTO – Global Network Services, End-User Services, CISO – Global Technology Infrastructure, and Distinguished Architect – Cybersecurity Architecture. His first 13 years were providing global oversight of JPMorgan Chase’s Voice & Data Network, and Perimeter Security with the last 9 years in Cybersecurity focused on Infrastructure and Cloud Security, Threat Modeling, Risk Assessment, Policy as Code, and Zero Trust.
Previous to JPMorgan Chase, Tony spent 9 years at KeyCorp in various executive leadership roles including oversight of Voice & Data Networks, Enterprise Architecture, Distributed Computing, and the Enterprise Command Center.
Tony started his career at General Electric where he spent 7 years in various technical leadership roles including Senior Architect & Systems Programmer (Mainframe, UNIX, VAX, LAN), Telecommunications and Networking.
Tony earned his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree at Cleveland State University. He currently resides in Boca Raton, Florida with his wife.
