Tara Van Unen

Sr. Manager, Market Development, Ixia

Tara Van Unen is the Director of Market Development for Ixia. She specializes in developing Ixia's strategic marketing plans for routing, switching, and broadband technologies. Prior to joining Ixia, Tara was the Marketing Manager for Agilent's Data Networks Operation, where she focused on the development of the N2X Multiservices Test Solution since 1999. She is an expert on network technologies and has been a key driver behind many published independent technical test reports, including Isocore's "Alcatel-Lucent Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA) Validation Report", “Business Service Validation at 100G”, and EANTC's "40-Gig Router Test". Her white papers and have been featured in industry publications worldwide and presented at key industry events, including Next Generation Networks, Broadband World Forum, Data Center World, Interop, and the Ethernet Alliance Technology Exploration Forum. Tarawas a contributing advisor to the Telecom Dictionary, is a member of the Metro Ethernet Forum, and serves on the conference advisory board for the Ethernet Technology Summit and Server Design Summit. She holds an MBA degree from SimonFraserUniversityand a Marketing Management Diploma from British Columbia's Instituteof Technology.