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Ravi Chandrasekaran

Senior Vice President, Engineering

Catalyst Engineering Group

Ravi Chandra is responsible for product development across Cisco's switching, routing, wireless, IoT, network automation and analytics portfolios. He leads the engineering effort on the Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA). Previously at Cisco, Chandra served as Vice President of Software for the Enterprise Networking Group, where he created a cohesive software-plus-services architecture for the enterprise market segment. Before that, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Services Routing Group when it delivered Cisco's flagship WAN edge router and WAN Optimization platforms as well as products for the Cloud Intelligent Network. He also spent the first part of his career at Cisco, where he developed a significant part of the Cisco BGP and MPLS forwarding protocols and co-authored six RFCs. Before rejoining Cisco, Chandra was co-founder and Vice President of Products at Apigee, a provider of API technology and services for enterprise businesses and developers. Apigee was recently acquired by Google. Earlier still, he was the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Redback Networks, responsible for all of their research and development. There he architected the software for the SmartEdge Service Gateway, a subscriber management and edge routing platform. Chandra holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India, and a Master of Science degree in communications engineering from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Articles

August 28, 2024

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Simplifying the policy experience for today’s IT teams

5 min read

Cisco Software Defined Access (SDA) just got better with Common Policy, a unique capability that ensures consistent policy enforcement at all network entry points through cross-domain context exchange.

June 14, 2022

NETWORKING

Simplify and Optimize Networking Experiences for the Hybrid Workforce and Cloud Workloads

5 min read

The Power of Cisco Platforms brings new network intelligence from the Meraki Cloud dashboard and Cisco DNA Center to industry-leading Catalyst Switching and Access Points, radically simplifying operations for hybrid cloud applications and hybrid workplaces.

March 29, 2022

NETWORKING

Continuous Learning at Cisco Leads to Career Advancement, Best-in-Class Networking Solutions

5 min read

Continuous Learning across solutions and full-stack architectures is key to developing secure, innovative network technologies and keeping Cisco engineers growing in their careers.

March 23, 2022

NETWORKING

Transitioning to IPv6 for Simplicity, Efficiency, and Modernization

4 min read

In order to grow network-connected ecosystems of OT/IoT endpoints and support a hybrid workforce, organizations need to transition to IPv6 to take advantage of unlimited IP addresses.

November 18, 2020

NETWORKING

You Can Have It All: SASE and Secure SD-WAN with One SD-Architecture

6 min read

Learn how a flexible combination of SASE (pure cloud) and Secure SD-WAN (hybrid cloud, point of presence, and on-premise) can be applied as needed to fit specific use cases while relying on the same software-defined architecture to implement and manage it all.

October 26, 2020

NETWORKING

Giving SecOps a New Weapon with Security Group Access Control Lists

4 min read

Segmenting networks using Security Group Access Control Lists (SGACL) reduces the threat surface by limiting the reach of attacks in east-west traffic to within segments. By sending the permit and deny logs generated by the SGACLs to SIEM applications, SecOps can analyze and correlate them with indicators of compromise generated by other security appliances.

August 25, 2020

NETWORKING

Identify Endpoints, Enforce Policies, and Stop Threats with Network Segmentation

6 min read

Granular network segmentation is the preferred defensive method to prevent the lateral spread of threats through networks. It is also ideal to enforce policies that restrict access to applications by trusted devices and individuals. Automation for identifying, grouping, and enforcing segmentation policies is key to securing networks of all sizes.

March 3, 2020

NETWORKING

Creating More Agile and Upgradable Networks with a Controller-Based Architecture

5 min read

Controllers bring purposeful intelligence into an Intent-Based Network by acting as intermediaries between human operators specifying intents, and all the switches, routers, and access points that provide the required connectivity.

September 17, 2019

NETWORKING

From Controllers to Multi-Domain: 7 Pillars of Intent-Based Networking

7 min read

Wireless technologies, AI, rich behavioral and telemetry databases, more flexible and economical WAN links, and abundant cloud compute resources are becoming available to address the new reality of increasingly complex networks.

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