Tejas Networks

Tejas Networks

Type	Private
Industry	Networking equipments
Founded	India (May 2000)
Headquarters	Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Area served	Worldwide/Underneath Ocean
Key people	Sanjay Nayak, Managing Director and CEO Kumar N. Sivarajan, Chief Technology Officer Murali R., Chief Financial Officer Arnob Roy, President- Engineering Vagish Dwivedi, Joint Director - Engineering
Revenue	US$ (2014-15)
Operating income	US$ (2015-16)
Number of employees	900 (2015)
Website	http://www.tejasnetworks.com

Tejas Networks is the only Indian company in computer networking and telecommunication equipment manufacturering ^[1] based in Bangalore, India.^[2][3][4]

Tejas Networks sells optical networking products to telecom networks in India and in over 50 countries having over taken British Telecom and Ericsson in 2016. These solutions cover traditional SDH/SONET, carrier Ethernet, transition solutions like carrier Ethernet over SDH/SONET, high capacity C/DWDM solutions as well as a common network management system.Tejas has over 70% of its workforce deployed in R&D with a bulk of the R&D team coming from premier institutes in India such as IISc, IITs and NITs. Tejas has won many awards for its R&D capabilities and innovative telecom products

Milestones

History

Tejas Networks was founded in May 2000 by Sanjay Nayak with funding from Gururaj Deshpande (brother-in-law of Infosys founder, N. R. Narayana Murthy), with funding $5 million initially, and US-based ASG-Omni.^[5][6] Tejas Networks attracted a total of $73 million of funding, from Sequoia Capital, Mayfield Fund,^[7] Battery Ventures and Goldman Sachs, which put in $24 million,^[8][9] $20 million from Sandstone Capital (2008).^[10]

Company

With its headquarters in Bangalore, Tejas has research and development centres in Bangalore, Mumbai and Noida.^[11][12][13]

Tejas Networks launched India's first fiber-optic communication product, TJ-100, in 2001.^[14][15][16]

T V Mohandas Pai of Infosys and J Ramachandran of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, joined the Tejas Networks board as independent directors in 2007.^[17]

Awards

• Tejas Networks has received the TEMA (Telecom Equipment Manufacturer's Association) Award for Excellence in Innovation 2007^[18] and R & D in 2008.^[19]
• "Most Promising Y Gen Companies", Computers Today
• "Distinguished Product Company" by NASSCOM, December 2005
• One of 2 "Indian companies to watch out for in 2006", Business Today
• One of "1000 private companies in Asia that drive the technology industry's future", Red Herring.
• 8th IETE Corporate Award for Excellence in Telecommunications Systems, 2006
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India — Diamond Jubilee Technology Award 2006.^[20]

Products and services

Tejas sells packet-aware optical transport products based on Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) or synchronous optical networking (SONET) and Ethernet-over-SDH /SONET.

It primarily supplies optical transmission equipment, which uses optical fibre networks. Tejas Networks designs the equipment but outsources manufacture, from Flextronics, Celestica, Texas Instruments and other electronic manufacturing service providers.^[21]

References

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