About the Presenters
Debanjan Saha is the principal architect of Tellium's IP centric service management platform. Previous to his tenure at Tellium, he spent several years at IBM Research and Lucent Bell Labs, where he designed and developed protocols for IP routers, multi-service switches, and UNIX servers. He is actively involved with various standards bodies, most notably IETF and OIF. He also serves as editor of international journals and magazines, and technical committee member of workshops and conferences. Dr. Saha is a notable author of numerous technical articles on various networking topics, and is a frequent speaker at academic and industrial events. He holds a B.Tech. degree from IIT, India, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park, all in Computer Science.

Bala Rajagopalan is a lead architect at Tellium, Inc. He is responsible for Tellium's IP over optical and optical internetworking architectures. Prior to joining Tellium, Dr. Rajagopalan was with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bellcore, and NEC C&C Research Laboratories, where he developed protocols and algorithms for wireless data networking, Internet routing and multicast, QoS, traffic engineering, and IP switching. Rajagopalan has published numerous papers and delivered many invited lectures on topics covering his areas of interest, and he has filed patents relating to wireless services and internetworking, and optical networks. He is also very active in standardization activities and he has made significant contributions to the IETF, the ATM Forum and the Optical Interworking Forum. Rajagopalan received his B. Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, and his M.S and Ph.D degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in Computer Science.