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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.

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June 13, 2018

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NETWORKING

Cisco’s New Intent-Based Networking Platform in Use: An Example

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With the DNA Center's new platform capabilities, we can link the networking and IT issue tracking systems together. Learn how one of our partners is doing it.

February 27, 2018

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Networking Done Right: Our Vision Behind DNA-Center

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The #network is the foundation that fuels digital transformations. However, in order to enable such transformations, the network must transform itself as well.

December 21, 2017

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

7 for 2017: A Look Back on a Big Year for Networking

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If this year is a sign of things to come, I cannot be more excited and confident in our continued innovation in 2018. I guarantee you’ll see us continue to lead the industry forward.

December 18, 2017

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Introducing Cisco LaunchPad Startup Cohort 3

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Cisco LaunchPad’s startup cohort #2 graduated with resounding success. All eight startups received an enthusiastic response from investors, partners, and the Cisco Community. Currently, Cisco LaunchPad has 16 startup alums, of which seven are actively engaged with Cisco on technology and Go-to-Market collaboration. Through Cisco LaunchPad, we are building engagement with highly relevant startup communities […]

June 23, 2017

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Engineering the New Era of Networking

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Building this new era of networking has driven Cisco to innovate in many different ways. This launch marks a new chapter in our engineering history and transformation.

May 8, 2017

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Commencing Cisco LaunchPad Startup Cohort 2

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Read about Cisco LaunchPad - an ecosystem of startups, technology leaders, partners, and developers we're helping incubate in India.

October 7, 2016

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Navigating the Next Leap Second

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For 27th time since 1972, a leap second is confirmed for 2016. It will take place on December 31 and to ensure our customers have everything they need to know about this upcoming event, Cisco has published an Information Page on Cisco.com. Similar to a leap year, the leap second helps bring our tracking of […]

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