Aviad is the VP, BD technology, responsible of driving the Ethernet switch business development. Aviad collaborates with the biggest T1 and T2 cloud and web companies in the US and China. Until recently, he led the Ethernet switch software architecture and was responsible for building the Spectrum SDK and ONYX architectures from grounds up . He has been driving Open Ethernet vision in the Open Compute Project and in the Linux netdev community. Aviad's domains of expertise include Data Center topologies, L2/L3 control protocols, Precision Time Protocol and Media over IP SMPTE standardization.