Rashmin Patel is a Senior Systems Architect with Intel’s Network Platforms Group, the business unit that powers the internet through the supply of SOC's, CPU's, Chipsets, Networking Components and Technology Ingredients enabling the design of Security, Router, Media and Wireless infrastructure designs. Rashmin is a passionate technologist with as primary focus Virtualization Technology, Data Plane optimizations, and Workload Scalability. These technology ingredients build the foundation for Network Functions Virtualization and Software Defined Networks