 Hello, my name is Eileen Healy and I'm here in Bangkok at the ITU telecom world 2013 I Just finished moderating a panel on network virtualization It was exciting panel where we talked about the promise the opportunities the challenges of moving network functions into a virtual environment moving what traditionally have been Functions performed by boxes deployed in the network into data centers into the cloud We had an excellent discussion that ranged from the challenges and opportunities for large network operators and for small it was a very energized audience and We actually at the end everyone was looking forward to the developments in virtualization and looking forward to coming back to the 2014 conference to get an update on virtualization