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The True Technologist

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Voice&Data Bureau
New Update
Infrastructure
Expertise

Arun Sobti, CEO,
IP Unity
Multilayer
Master

Ashraf M Dahod,
President and CEO, Starent Networks
Network
Designer

Bharat T Doshi,
Director, advanced communications technologies, Bell Labs
Labors
of Laser

C Kumar N Patel,
Professor of physics, UCLA
Hosting
Hero

BV Jagadeesh,
Co-Founder, Exodus
Wireless
Warrior

Dayakar Puskoor,
Founder, JP Mobile
Applying
Mathematics

Debasis Mitra,
Vice-President, Mathematics Sciences Research Center
Broadband
Expert

Dev Gupta,
Founder, President and CEO Narad Networks
Internet
Insights

Gian Dilawari,
COO and Co-Founder, Gemplex Internet
Optical
Networking Entrepreneur

Gururaj Deshpande,
Co-Founder, Cascade and Sycamore Networks
Fiber-optics
Guru

Govind P Agrawal,
Professor Of Optics University of Rochester
Billing
Specialist

Inderpal Singh
Mumick
, CEO and co-founder, Kirusa
Accomplished
Algorithms

Hemant Kanakia,
CEO and co-founder, Gemplex Inc
Storage
Supremo

HK Desai,
President, CEO and chairman, QLogic
Wireless
Veteran

Jai P Bhagat,
Chairman and CEO of AIR2LAN
Telecom
Thinker

Jagdish N Sheth
Taking
on Intel

Jagdeep Singh,
President and CEO, Infinera
Multiplexing
Researcher

Jagdeep Shah
Rebounding
LAN

Jayshree Ullal,
Group V-P, optical networking group, Cisco
VLSI
Veteran

Kanwar Jit Singh,
co- founder, Xebeo Communications
Internet
Success

KB Chandrasekhar,
founder and CEO, Jamcracker
Industry
Veteran

Krish Prabhu,
venture partner, Morgenthaler
Fiber
Channel Champion

Kumar Malavalli,
founder, Brocade
Internet
Access Success

Mahesh Veerina,
co-founder, Ramp Networks
Melody
and Ventures

Mano Murthy, CEO
and co-founder, Allegro Systems
IPO
Maker

Mohan Gyani,
CEO, AT&T Wireless
Innovative
Systems Architect

Mukesh Chatter,
president and CEO, Axiowave
Father
of Fiber Optics

Narinder Singh
Kapany
, chairman, K2 Optronics
Quest
for Excellence

Prathima Agrawal,
assistant V-P (Internet architecture research lab) Telcordia
Technologies
More
Information per Strand

Partha Mitra,
scientist, Bell Labs
CDMA
Signaling Standard Developer

Prakash Panjwani,
V-P (worldwide embedded sales), SafeNet
Fastest
Data Switch

Prabhat K Dubey,
chairman, president and CEO Force10 Networks
Cisco
Challenger

Pradeep Sindhu,
founder, Juniper Networks
Semiconductor
Magic

Prakash Agarwal,
president and CEO, NeoMagic
Improving
Networks

Raj Parekh,
chairman, Comstellar Technologies
Bluetooth
Boomer

Rajiv Kumar,
co-founder and CTO Widcomm
This
Man Has no Peer

Raj Singh,
partner, Redwood Venture Partners
Networking
Foresight

Rohit Sharma,
senior V-P and CTO (metro networking group), CIENNA
MAN
Man

Romulus Pereira,
president and CEO, Riverstone Networks
Helped
Make the First Modem

Roshan Lal Sharma,
Adjunct professor, Southern Methodist University
The
Hotmail Legend

Sabeer Bhatia
The
Innovator Who also Built C-DoT

Sam Pitroda,
chairman and CEO, WorldTel
Rolling
out New Software

Sanjiv Ahuja,
founder and CEO, Comstellar Technologies
An
Enterprising Messiah

Santanu Das,
president, CEO and chairman, TranSwitch Corp
The
Erudite Investor

Suhas Patil,
chairman emeritus, Cirrus Logic
Man
with Midas Touch

Vinod Khosla,
partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Master
Tester

Vishwani D Agrawal,
Distinguished member of technical staff, Agere Systems
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Arun Netravali, chief scientist, Lucent TechnologiesLike many other successful Indians in the US, he could have taken a great
idea, and built a product around it. He could have sought (and would have easily
got) venture funding to create a start-up. He could have become a serial
entrepreneur. He could have turned an angel investor. He could have…….

But Arun Netravali did not.

Instead,
the chief scientist at Lucent Technologies chose to remain close to research,
looking after the mammoth research organization, the Mecca of technology
research to some, Bell Laboratories. And that, despite "missing my personal
research"–as he once confessed in an interview with Voice&Data.

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A true example of a modern day jnana yogi–the Vedantic term for one who
follows the path of knowledge–Dr Netravali believes in sharing of knowledge,
as opposed to the phrase that is in vogue today–creation of wealth. He
passionately believes in selfless hard work, something he says, his Indian
upbringing taught him. That is why he considers Lata Mangeshkar his mentor,
though he has never worked with her. It is her work and contribution, albeit in
a totally different field, that inspires this great scientist.

An IIT Bombay Alumni, Dr Netravali is an authority on HDTV, has made
significant contributions to the field of video compression through his personal
research, has won many awards and honors including US National Medal of
Technology as well as Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian honor.

Dr Netravali passionately believes that communication will be ubiquitous, the
Internet will never get centralized, and will soon become a Hi-IQNet with a lot
more intelligence. "It is not necessary that everything should converge to
become one, he says, adding "convergence to me is how much sharing you
do." n

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