Kurt Raaflaub leads Adtran’s product marketing team, and has more than 25 years’ experience in telecom, mobile and cable. He has global product marketing, market intelligence, media and analyst relations responsibility for the Adtran end-to-end fiber broadband portfolio inclusive of fiber access platforms, fiber extension technologies, connected home solutions and intelligent SaaS applications directed at altnet, cable MSO, electric utility, ISP, municipalities, telco, wholesaler or WISP markets. Responsibility includes evangelizing the operator benefits of modern open and disaggregated software-defined access architectures based on open networking and data center principles. Raaflaub earned a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Calgary.