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<p>In early December, industry, government, and academic telecom leaders met in Austin for the Telecommunications Industry Association&rsquo;s (TIA) 2013 CTO Council Roundtable. <a class="offsite" title="TIA Now" href="http://www.tianow.org/videos/nfv-and-spectrum-takes-over-cto-council-roundtable-discussion/13571">TIA Now&rsquo;s Post-Show video</a> offers a post-event analysis among InterDigital's James Nolan, Executive Vice President, Research &amp; Development; Franklin Flint, Global Telecommunications Strategist &amp; Marketing Lead at Dell OEM Solutions; and Jonathan King, VP of Cloud Strategy &amp; Business Development at CenturyLink.</p>
<p>After sharing general impressions of the Roundtable, the panel dives into a discussion of new NFV (Network Functions Virtualizations) and spectrum sharing technologies, touching on everything today&rsquo;s CTO and CIO wants to know about NFV&mdash;from the advantages and cost benefits to hardware and software issues; impacts on Service Level Agreements to privacy concerns. They also take a brief look of the proliferation of unregulated NFV technologies and how they affect the industry.</p>
<p>From NFV, the group jumps to spectrum sharing, responding to a comment made earlier during the Roundtable that it&rsquo;s a &ldquo;pipe dream.&rdquo; <a class="offsite" title="NFV and Spectrum Take Over CTO Council Roundtable Discussion" href="http://www.tianow.org/videos/nfv-and-spectrum-takes-over-cto-council-roundtable-discussion/13571">Watch the video</a> to get their reactions, insights into advances in spectrum technology, and thoughts about current delays in spectrum auctions.</p>
<p>Check out the <a title="InterDigital Vault" href="http://vault.interdigital.com">InterDigital Vault</a> for more videos, white papers, and resources on the future of wireless technology.</p>