Principal & Distinguished Engineer, Office of CTO, Ciena

Raghu Ranganathan is MEF Fellow and Co-chair of MEF Technical & Operations Committee. He has also been editor of multiple specifications - MEF 6.2 (Ethernet Service Definitions) and MEF 22.1 (Mobile Backhaul Implementation Agreement). As an elected Board member of MEF, he has used the extraordinary opportunity to be an active leader in defining MEF’s future and educating the networking community across the world on MEF’s excellent work on Services & Orchestration. Raghu has been with Ciena since 1998. He is a Senior Member of IEEE with many publications and patents in addition to conference presentations.