Matteo Biancani

Matteo Biancani (matteo.biancani@interoute.com) has a degree in telecommunications engineering from Universitá degli Studi di Pisa). Currently he is a sales director at Interoute responsible for enterprise business in Italy. He looks after the organization of sales and sales engineering in order to develop and grow markets and to improve the quality of the support provided to sales forces. In addition to customer/market related activities, he is deeply involved in Interoute's R&D initiatives on SDN, cloud, data centers, and RINA. He is coordinator for the H2020 CYCLONE projects. Previously, he was coordinator of the FP7 projects GEYSERS, LIGHTNESS, and DOLFIN in which he worked on cloud and network integration. Previous job experiences: Telecom Italia/IT Department; Netesi SpA (application service provider). Publication: “All-Optical Packet/Circuit Switching-Based Data Centere Network for Enhanced Scalability, Latency and Throughput,” IEEE Network Special Issue on Optical Networks in Cloud Computing, published December 2013.