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News Release from: Sasken Communication Technologies
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Team on 01 February 2007
Tyagi to provide technology direction
Sasken Communication Technologies has announced the appointment of Rajesh Tyagi as Chief Technology Officer (Products and Services).
Sasken Communication Technologies has announced the appointment of Rajesh Tyagi as Chief Technology Officer (Products and Services) Tyagi will be responsible for providing technology direction to all of Sasken's global product and services business units as well as positioning Sasken's technology solutions with its global customer base
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Tyagi has 22 years of in-depth experience in 2.5G/3G/4G wireless, VoIP/VoBB, data, and optical networking technologies.
Most recently, Tyagi was Executive Advisor - Technology and Portfolio Strategy at Motorola, where he provided next-generation network architecture and technology direction to its Core Networks and Services business units.
Prior to Motorola, Tyagi was: Sr VP at sentitO Networks; Chief Strategy Officer and cofounder of Excieo Systems; and VP of Product Management at Pelago Networks.
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Before his VoIP/wireless startup career, Tyagi had a 10-year progressive career with Nortel Networks where he held a variety of senior leadership roles in product management and engineering functions in multiple business units.
Leading an internally funded startup within Nortel, Tyagi developed and demonstrated the industry-first "storage over agile optical network" technology.
Commenting on the appointment, Srikanth Kannankote President and COO of Sasken, said: "Rajesh brings a wealth of telecom domain experience, as well as a hugely impressive track record of innovation".
"Our telecom industry is going through an unprecedented transition from circuit-switched to packet-switched networks".
"This change is not only technologically challenging but also disruptive to current service providers' business model".
"Sasken, with its unique product and services business model and domain expertise, is well positioned to seize this market opportunity by helping its customers with this transition", explains Tyagi.
"I am excited about joining the Sasken team and look forward to being part of its success".
Tyagi holds a patent in optical-IP networking area and has filed multiple patents for distributed architectural solution that enables multimedia services and applications in both peer-to-peer and network-based sessions in an IMS or nonIMS domain.
He holds a master of applied science with honours (electrical engineering) from the University of Toronto, and an MBA with distinction from Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.
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