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Reminder:
Please take a couple of minutes to fill out our survey on Chapter 20 meeting times and help us serve you better. We will review the results at the next meeting.
https://forms.gle/WuBdwhmgESHzwFZ66
Our next meeting will be on
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
12:00 to 1:00 PM
WPXI Executive Conference Room
4145 Evergreen Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15214
Speakers/Presentation:
Dan Merwin – Telecom/IT Agent and Broadcast Technician at Broadcast Telecom
Dan Merwin, CBNE, based in Denver, is a lifelong telecom veteran. In 2023, he started his own company, Broadcast Telecom, which is an agency that represents hundreds of telecom and IT solution providers. He also works part-time as a contract broadcast field engineer, primarily for EMF.
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Tyson Crosby – Solutions Engineer at Intelisys
Tyson is an experienced Cloud Architect with a rich background in technology, innovation, and strategic leadership. His career began in the U.S. Air Force and evolved through technical and leadership roles at TTEC, GTRI (Zivaro), TELUS International, Sentinel Technologies, and Expedient. While working with GTRI and Sentinel he led architecture design for both the 2010 and 2020 U.S. Census projects. With a degree in Micro-electronics and Robotics, Tyson has held pivotal roles in network engineering, enterprise architecture, and IT leadership.
As you may have seen on Kirk Harnack's TWiRT podcast recently, iHeart and other station groups are replacing their RF STLs and legacy WAN technologies with Software Defined-WAN. There are dozens of SD-WAN vendors in the marketplace and it takes an expert to navigate the landscape.
Dan and Tyson will talk about:
What does the term SD-WAN mean and what were the circumstances that drove its rapid and widespread development and adoption? (One reason is the ever-improving reliability, performance, availability, and cost of internet access)
What are the basic components and features of SD-WAN?
What does the architecture look like?
How much does it cost?
Here is a link to a Teams meeting if you are unable to attend in person.
Some available resources on the SBE website:
Certification Preparation: https://sbe.org/certification/sbe-certification-exam-preparation/
Practice Questions for Certification: https://sbe.org/certification/sbe-certpreview/
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