Tejas Networks

Tejas Networks is an Indian Networking and Telecom equipment products company^[1] from Bangalore^[2][3][4]

Corporate history

Tejas Networks was co-founded in May 2000 by Gururaj Deshpande and US-based ASG-Omni.^[5] Headquartered in Bangalore, it has R& D offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and Noida.^[6][7][8] Tejas Networks has attracted $73 million of funding, from Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund,^[9] Battery Ventures and Goldman Sachs, which put in $24 million,^[10][11] $20 million from Sandstone Capital (2008).^[12]

News and Events

• Tejas Networks launches India's first Optical networking product , TJ-100, in 2001.^[13][14][15]
• Mr T V Mohandas Pai of Infosys and Prof J Ramachandran of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, have joined the Tejas Networks Board as Independent Directors.^[16]

Awards and recognitions

• Tejas Networks has received the TEMA (Telecom Equipment Manufacturer's Association) Award for Excellence in Innovation 2007 ^[17] and R & D in 2008.^[18]
• “Most Promising New Gen Companies”, Computers Today
• "Distinguished Product Company" by NASSCOM, Dec 2005
• One of 20 Indian companies to watch out for in 2006”, Business Today
• “One of 100 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.^[19]

Products and services

It enables telecom infrastructure by developing carrier class communications equipment. Tejas has a portfolio of packet-aware optical transport products based on SDH/SONET and has been deploying Ethernet-over-SDH /SONET.

It primarily supplies a range of optical transmission equipment, which enable the use of the optical fibre networks. Tejas Networks designs the equipment but outsources manufacture, from Flextronics (India ), Celestica (India) and other electronic manufacturing service providers elsewhere in the world.^[20]

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