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Steve Papa

Steve Papa

Steve leads the senior management team at Parallel Wireless in setting the company’s strategic direction and is guiding the company’s evolution from its successful first customer deployment into broad commercialization and growth. Steve has been part of reimagining the technology landscape for over 20 years. 

As founder and CEO of Endeca, he reimagined the database to support faceted information ultimately leading to Oracle acquiring the company as its 6th largest acquisition ever when announced (reported at $1.1 billion). He was part of the team creating Akamai that reimagined global Internet content distribution - now carrying peaks of 15 terabits/s of web traffic on any given day - and led the team at Inktomi that reimagined the network cache to create carrier class caching. Earlier he worked with AT&T Teradata where enterprise computing was reimagined with the first use of Intel processors for enterprise servers.

He has a BS from Princeton University and MBA from Harvard Business School.

Three Key Consideration for Successful OpenRAN Deployments

Monday, 22 June 2020 09:01
Greenfield versus brownfield networks When you see the many announcements around innovation in OpenRAN for 5G, what you may not realize is that the 4G…

Comment to FCC: Accelerating American 5G Innovation

Thursday, 30 April 2020 09:53
The following is a summary of a letter filed by Parallel Wireless' CEO Steve Papa in response to the Public Note, released by the Public…

Scaling Up 5G With Cloud Native Networks, OpenRAN and First Standalone Applications

Tuesday, 28 January 2020 09:35
Throughout 2019, operators and vendors from across the globe were competing to introduce the first 5G technology. In 2020, these companies will be looking at…