Somnath Ojha

Background

About Somnath Ojha

Sr Technology Executive in Computer Networking & Communications Industry .. Imaginative visionary Systems Level Tech Leader with business skills. Deep Tech experience in IP Internet and Computer Networking with 30+ years of industry experience Technology positions held with premier international data communications computer networking & telecom equipment companies such as Codex Corporation (fully owned subsidiary of Motorola Inc later-on Information Systems Group ISG – Motorola Inc.) Wellfleet Communications/Bay Networks Inc Nortel Networks Ltd. as well as “make in India” start-ups such as Tejas Networks. I have academic background in Electronics and Communications. Deep and Wide experience in Service Providers and Enterprise Networking Industry pre-Internet and post-Internet era pre-dotcom and post dotcom period… IP Networking in pre- and post- Cloud Computing era OSPF/IS-IS/BGP Routing MPLS Segment Routing 4G/5G/IP Core Networks Ethernet Optical NGN/Core Networks Internet Security/IPSec 5G technologies and use cases in enterprise 400 MHz Hot-spots/arena 5G as wireline replacement (FWA) 5G & WiFi6/6E co-existence Internet of Things (IoT) Hyper-scale Cloud Data Centre across Enterprise/Telcos/Web-scale Data Centers ISPs CSPs OTTs & Telecom Service Providers. QoS across Voice Video Data and Multimedia communications. Experience ranges across Product System and Network Engineering Product Management Standards Architecture & Technology Strategy incl experience in working with standards/Industry bodies such as IEEE/IETF/ITU/3GPP/OCP/TIP following Industry trends like White box Disaggregated NOS CORD Spine-Leaf Architecture Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway (DCSG) SD-PON vOLT XGS-PON Product & Technology Development Patents & Innovation Product Marketing Design and Engineering of best-in-class MPLS & IP (v4 & v6) products Networks Data Centers Telco Cloud Edge Cloud Internet & Security products and networks Also experienced with “Make In India” IP/MPLS Routing products Control Plane Strategies Engineering Solution Portfolio Marketing and Business Development. Presently guiding and driving Tejas Networks entry into IP Routing to all its product…including IP networking internals (IS- IS OSPF BGP IP Multicast PIM-SM/SSM L2VPN L3VPN Segment Routing EVPN Netconf/Yang TR69) in Routers as well as application of IP networking in TEJAS GPON and 4G/5G eNB/gNB and EPC/5GC in 5G NSA architecture product family. Also presently looking into TCP performance optimization over 4G IP RAN.