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Sonu Khandelwal

Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Cloud Networking

Sonu Khandelwal is a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer in Cisco Networking – Data Center and Provider Connectivity organization. In this role, he works on building products for Cisco's datacenter switching, network automation and operations. He is leading a team of technical marketing engineers focused on Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), NX-OS, VXLAN and Nexus Dashboard Fabric controller (NDFC). As part of his role at Cisco, he has closely worked with large service providers, and enterprises across the globe. He is always focused on solving customer problems, and building products that solve real customer challenges by bringing simplification in network automation and operations. He has been working in networking industry since 2004. Sonu is passionate about telecom datacenter (Telco DC), Open-RAN and 5G technologies. He has written several whitepapers and represented Cisco in multiple public forums in the datacenter networking domain. Prior to his role as a Technical Marketing Engineer, He has worked over a decade in engineering.

Articles

June 26, 2023

PARTNER

Cisco and Intel Demonstrate Interoperability for Open RAN

3 min read

Cisco and Intel validate interoperability between Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX3 Switch and Intel® Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters that feature enhanced timing capabilities for faster and lower cost Open RAN (Radio Access Networks) deployments.

June 29, 2021

DATA CENTER

Deploy 5G O-RAN with Cisco Nexus 9000

5 min read

Open RAN (O-RAN) deployments based on Nexus 9000 swiches save costs by eliminating vendor lock-in and enabling telecom service providers to leverage virtualization at the edge for innovative apps and services. Learn about the Open-RAN architecture, the PTP telecom profile, and deployment models of O-RAN using Cisco Nexus 9000 switches.