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Jason Teller
Worldwide Vice President
Sales, Internet & Mass-Scale Infrastructure
Jason Teller leads Cisco’s Internet & Mass-Scale Infrastructure (I&MI) Sales organization, a $5B+ business. His team of 250+ sales specialists work to accelerate architecture transitions and business transformation for hyperscalers, service providers, large enterprises and public sector organizations via I&MI’s industry-leading routing, optical, assurance, automation, and mobility portfolio. Through cross-functional interlock, he steers Cisco’s technical roadmap and acquisition strategy to grow the company’s market share.
Prior to his current role, Jason led the 360-degree relationship between Cisco and Microsoft, growing the business by 300%+ over a five-year period. Under his leadership, a diverse team of sales, engineering, services delivery, operations, and marketing colleagues advised Microsoft on how to reduce network complexity and boost performance while meeting sustainability goals.
Jason first joined Cisco in 2000, and over the course of 12 years, held sales, product development and strategy roles at Cisco Capital. Following senior leadership roles in private equity and energy & utilities sectors, he returned to Cisco in 2016 as Partner Executive in the Global and Strategic Partner Organization.
Jason has dual MBAs in Finance and Leadership from Columbia Business School and in Strategy from the University of California, Berkeley. As an executive, he fosters a high-performance organizational culture focused on customer outcomes. He is passionate about diversity and inclusion and acts as a mentor to support the next generation of leaders.
Jason lives in the Seattle, WA, area with his wife and children. He loves to travel and is a car enthusiast.
Articles
Beyond the Data Center: High-Performance Networks for AI
4 min read
Traditionally, transporting data between geographically distributed data centers required leasing high-capacity circuits from service providers or investing in dedicated optical transport networks. However now, data center interconnect (DCI) connections over dark fiber, using coherent pluggable optics, offer a strategic alternative that reduces both the cost and complexity of connecting data centers to support AI applications.
Bell Canada’s Transformation Journey with Routed Optical Networking
4 min read
Jason Teller sat down with Marc-André Gilbert, Senior Manager of Transport Planning at Bell Canada, to hear about the company’s network transformation journey using Routed Optical Networking and how it will enable Bell Canada to fulfill its strategic imperative to be the best network in the country while significantly reducing costs.
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