Dr Pradeep Sindhu

Dr Pradeep Sindhu, PhD in Computer Science from
Carnegie-Mellon University, founded Juniper Networks in 1996 and was considered
crazy to take aim at Cisco. Within five years of its formation, Juniper grabbed
30% of the high-end router market.

Prior to this, at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox PARC, Dr Sindhu worked on
design tools for VLSI and high-speed interconnects for shared-memory
multiprocessors. This work led to the commercial development of Sun Microsystems'
first high-performance multiprocessor system family, which includes the SS1000
and SS2000. Dr Sindhu played key roles in the architecture, design and
development of these machines. He is now responsible for Juniper's technical
roadmap. He is behind the company's latest initiative-Infranet, which is
aimed at solving performance and security problems inherent in the Internet.