Prashant has been in Telecom/Datacom sector for nearly 24 years. He has worked across various organizations in India and USA before joining Ciena India in 2006. Prashant has been working in the Routing and Switching domain across throughout his career and has built and led multiple teams from ground up. In Ciena, Prashant is leading the RSP (Routing and Switching Portfolio) Software R&D organization which is responsible for delivering Next Gen Routing and Switching solutions over bare metal hardware/Virtualized domain and deployed across major Tier-1 Service Providers in all geographical regions. Prashant has a M.S. in Software systems and loves to read and travel. He has also been granted many patents and has served on Ciena’s Patent Review Board (PRB).