 Hello everyone, welcome to our special Mobile World Congress 2017 coverage. I'm John Furrier here in theCUBE for two days of wall-to-wall coverage Monday and Tuesday, February 27th, 28th. And we have on the phone right now Lynn Komp, who's the senior director of the network platforms group with an Intel part of the team doing the whole network transformation. The big announcements that went out prior to Mobile World Congress and hitting the ground on Monday and Tuesday on all next week in Barcelona. Lynn, great to have you on the phone. Thanks for taking the time to walk through some of the big announcements. So 5G is happening now. You're seeing it in the network, in the cloud, and at the client, and you guys use the word client, but essentially it's the people with their smartphones and devices, wearables, AIs. And now the client is now cars and flying drones and potentially whatever else is connected to the internet as an internet of things. This has been a really big moment and I think I want to take some time to kind of unpack with you some of the complexities and kind of what's going on under the hood because 4G to 5G is a huge step up in the announcement and capabilities and it's just not another device. There's really unique intellectual property involved. There's more power, there's a market leadership in the ecosystem and really is a new way for service providers to achieve profitability and get those products that are trying to connect that need more power, more bandwidth, more capabilities. Can you take a minute to just talk about the key announcements impacting Mobile World Congress from Intel's perspective this week in your area? We think of them as being first on innovating with all these diverse use cases. You end up, we're going to take advantage of the potential that's there. Lynn, talk about this end-to-end story because one of the things that got hidden in all the news and certainly SiliconANGLE covered as well as it was a great article in Fortune about it. Really kind of talk about more the 5G versus Qualcomm. That was kind of the big story, the battle of the chips, if you will, and the big 5G angle there. But there's more to it and one thing that caught my attention was this end-to-end architecture. And it wasn't just Intel. You guys are a big part of that as an ingredient, but it's not just Intel. What does that mean end-to-end? Because I can see the wireless piece as an overlay and connecting devices, but where's the end-to-end fit in? Can you give some color on that? And it does implement that network use choice thing, but... So I got to ask you about the big question I get, first of all, thanks for that, but the big question I get is this isn't turning into an app show, we're Mobile World Congress, and the apps are everything from cars to just phone apps to network apps, et cetera. And the question that everyone's asking is, we need more bandwidth and certainly 5G addresses that. But the service providers are saying, do we really need all that power? And when does it come, what's the timing of all this? So specific question to you is, Lynn, is what is Intel doing to accelerate the network transformation for the service providers to get 5G ready? Because that seems to be the main theme, is the orientation of where the progress bar is relative to, is it ready for prime time? Is it here and now? Is it out in the future? Is this kind of a pre-announcement? So there's kind of some confusion to clarify that up. Where's the progress bar? And how is Intel accelerating network transformation for folks in the service provider business to be 5G ready? Like they go integrate on Amazon until building an ecosystem. So Intel Network Builders is something that had a big announcement foundation and it's looking to begin to get that pace of innovation and creativity in the network as well. So the building block approach seems to be your strategy for the ecosystem. What's the challenge to keep that rolling and cohesive? How are you guys gonna foster that growth on the ecosystem? Are you guys gonna be doing a lot of joint marketing and funding projects? And how are you gonna foster that continuing growth? So I got to ask you some of the questions, could we have some guests on here in theCUBE in the Palo Alto coverage around NFV network function virtualization plays right into the software defined networking virtualization world. So why is NFV and SDN so vital to the network transformation? Why now and what's happening in those two areas? What's the enabler? Well machine and be able to put the function in it. So at the end, yeah, management and orchestration is really important and critical both for cloud and for configurations happen. A lot of the information's embedded in router tables. So it makes a very big advantage of a really complicated network pretty quickly. And certainly that's where the good security part of the action is. Lynn, I want to get your final thoughts on the final question is this Mobile World Congress it really encapsulates years and years in the industry of kind of a tipping point and this is kind of my observation and I want to get your thoughts on this and reaction to it is the telcos and the service providers are finally at a moment where there's been so much pressure on the business model. We've heard this even going back many, many years ago oh over the top and you starting to see more and more pressure. This seems to be the year that people have a focus on seeing a straight and narrow set of solutions building blocks and an ecosystem that's poised to go to the next level where there can be a business model that actually can scale whether it's scaling the edge or having the core of the network work well and up and down the stack. Can you talk about the key challenges that these service providers have to do to address that key profitability equation that being a sustainable entity rather than being the pipes? Yes. Hopefully that could do one example. Well that's great enablement and here's an a lot of execution. I thought it gave me one more idea for a question so since I have my final, final question for you is what are you most excited about because you sounded super excited about that demo. What are the exciting things are happening in an Intel demo area from Intel that's exciting for you that you could share with the folks listening and watching? Lynn, thanks so much for spending the time. I know you got to go and run. Thanks so much for the commentary. We are low latency here inside the queue bringing you all the actions. Good title for a show. Low latency, really fast bringing all the action. Lynn, thanks so much for sharing the color and congratulations on your success at Mobile World Congress and looking forward to getting more post-show, post-mortem after the events over. Thanks for taking the time. We'll be back with more coverage of Mobile World Congress for special CUBE live in studio in Palo Alto covering all the action in Barcelona on Monday and Tuesday 27th, 28th. I'm John Furrier. We'll be right back with more after this short break. Thanks for watching.