Mitch Auster is Director, Systems Integration Product Management responsible for services that enable network operators to take advantage of state-of-the-art technologies, multi-vendor solutions, and flexible business models for providing next-gen metro and edge services.

Prior recent activities have included developing solutions and sharing business and technical insights on virtualizing network functions and automating packet-optical networks and operations processes for delivering network services such as SD-WAN, MPLS, data center interconnect and cloud connect.

Mitch Auster has been in the telecommunications industry for over 35 years, having spent the past 30 years in various product management, marketing, and business development positions serving the data, voice, video, mobile, and cloud communications markets.

He has a BS Degree in Computer Science from Penn State University and earned an MBA from Rutgers Graduate School of Management.