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Ciena India Adds to Leadership Team
Appoints Kanwal Jawanda as Vice President of Engineering to head R&D and new product
development
Gurgaon, New Delhi, IND, 2007-11-26 17:32:01 (IndiaPRwire.com)
Ciena India, one of the leading global research and development (R&D) centres for Ciena�
Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced the appointment of Kanwal
Jawanda, a veteran telecom engineering professional, as its Vice President, Engineering.
With more than 20 years of rich experience in the telecommunication industry, Kanwal will serve as
a significant leader to Ciena India's research and development (R&D) team. In this capacity, he will
drive the evolution of Ciena's world-class R&D center in Gurgaon. Also as part of his role, Kanwal
will lead the end-to-end product development for several Ciena solution sets, which are utilized
worldwide by leading telecom carriers, cable operators, enterprises, research institutions and
government agencies.
Kanwal began his career in 1986 as a Design Engineer with Amdahl Communications (Toronto,
Canada), where he was engaged in the development of high-speed digital multiplexers for Bell
Canada and various US-based telecom carriers. In 1990, he joined Newbridge Networks (Ottawa,
Canada) as a Senior Design Engineer, working on access products, including the introduction of
ISDN functionality to the subrate multiplexer product line and the development of the inverse
multiplexing Transmission Access Processor (TAP 3500). His key contribution during a ten-year
tenure at Newbridge was in the architecture design of an ATM switch (36170 Mainstreet) - a flagship
product for Newbridge that dominated the ATM market in late nineties.As a result of these
achievements, Kanwal made a significant contribution to Newbridge becoming a USD $2 billion
company from USD $100 million in ten years.
In 2000, when Newbridge was acquired by Alcatel,Kanwal assumed various roles and
responsibilities in the R&D environment, and last held the position of Director R&D in Alcatel's
Broadband Access Division (Ottawa, Canada), where collaborated across multi-site design centres
in Ottawa, Antwerp, Raleigh, Shanghai and Bangalore.In this capacity, he was responsible for
developing an IP DSLAM platform and related infrastructure for the IPTV service roll-outs at SBC
and BellSouth.
Just prior to joining Ciena India, Kanwal led a team of 150 R&D engineers at Wipro, providing
design services to tier one telecommunication equipment companies.
Speaking on the appointment, Mr Neeraj Gulati, Managing Director, Ciena India said, 'India is
increasingly looked upon as the top destination for research and development by major global
telecom equipment companies and their customers. Our Gurgaon-based development centre
leverages the strong engineering talent and knowledge of professionals in this region to bolster the
global R&D efforts of Ciena.'
Mr Gulati added: 'With Kanwal taking charge of Engineering at this centre, we are confident that
Ciena's Indian R&D team will benefit greatly from his vast knowledge in product development and
innovation, as well as from his management experience and extensive background in collaborative
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multi-site R&D.'
Commenting on his appointment, Kanwal said, 'I am excited to contribute to Ciena India's growing
communications R&D influence in India, and am looking forward to increasing this centre's share of
Ciena's global R&D efforts in new product development and innovation.'
Kanwal earned a MSdegree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada,
andholds patents in the communications arena. His expertise encompasses areas ofsystem
architecture, hardware andsoftware design,resource planning and project management, among
others.
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About Ciena India
Ciena Corporation has made a substantial investment in India with a view to attracting the brightest
minds to a new state-of-the-art research and development (R&D) centre in Gurgaon. The 95,000
square foot facility is Ciena's first core research and development centre outside of North America,
and will employ as many as 350 engineers. The Gurgaon Centre supplements and works
collaboratively with Ciena's existing research and development organization in North America,
focusing on a variety of technologies, including storage extension, optical transport, multiservice
switching, broadband access and network management. For more information visit
www.ciena.com/india
About Ciena
Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) is the network specialist, focused on expanding the
possibilities for its customers' networks while reducing their cost of ownership. The Company's
systems, software and services target and cure specific network pain points so telcos, cable
operators, governments and enterprises can best exploit the new applications that are driving their
businesses forward. For more information, visit http://www.ciena.com/.
Note to Investors
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements based on current expectations,
forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are based on
information available to the Company as of the date hereof; and Ciena's actual results could differ
materially from those stated or implied, due to risks and uncertainties associated with its business,
which include the risk factors disclosed in its Report on Form 10-Q, which Ciena filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on August 31, 2007. Forward-looking statements include
statements regarding Ciena's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future and
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"expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will," and "would" or similar words. Ciena assumes no obligation
to update the information included in this press release, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
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