Rakesh Chopra

SVP and Fellow

Common Hardware Group

Rakesh Chopra is a SVP & Fellow for Silicon One and has been at Cisco since 1997. During his time at Cisco, Rakesh has driven a number of industry-leading products at Cisco across the Enterprise and Service Provider space. Today, Rakesh has two primary focuses. First he owns the Cisco Silicon One roadmap definition, while runs the business and technical customer engagements for our external partners as part of Cisco's disaggregated business models. Secondly he runs a system architecture team focusing on hardware innovations and architectures for the system products Cisco builds.

Articles

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Rakesh Chopra

Turn Router Power into Cash Savings with Better Silicon

2 min read

Power is our fundamental limitation. It limits what we can build, what customers can deploy, and what our planet can sustain. This creates a technological imperative, a business imperative and most importantly a moral imperative to innovate. Learn how Cisco Silicon One may reduce your power bill by up to 71% saving over $140,000 per system and help save the planet.

NETWORKING

Rakesh Chopra

Cisco Silicon Powers the Best Systems

2 min read

Learn about the Cisco custom silicon that goes in to our high-performing, specialized networking hardware.

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Rakesh Chopra

Making an Eco-Friendly Network with Cisco Silicon One

4 min read

Discover how Cisco Silicon One can change the environmental impact of your network.

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Rakesh Chopra

ONE Silicon, ONE Experience, MULTIPLE Roles

3 min read

Today, I’m thrilled to announce Cisco Silicon One™- a ground-breaking, new silicon architecture that has elevated routing silicon’s performance to the same level as switching silicon’s performance – both from a bandwidth and power efficiency perspective – but we are also paving the way to faster performance gains in the near future.