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Kaarthik Sivakumar

Principal Engineer

Global Service Provider - India

Kaarthik is a Principal Engineer at Cisco, working in networking and security technologies. In his 12 years at Cisco, he has worked on Packet Forwarding, Broadband Network Gateway, Optical Networks, and Trustworthy Systems.

Prior to Cisco, Kaarthik worked at Ericsson IPI (née Torrent Networking Technologies), Clovis Solutions and Tellabs ADP (née Vivace Networks), in the areas of Routing, Distributed and Cluster Systems, and Fabric Technologies.

Kaarthik has a Masters degree from the University of Delaware, Newark, and a Bachelors from BITS, Pilani, India.

In his spare time Kaarthik studies Sanskrit for fun.

Articles

April 15, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Trust in IOS XR

In a previous blog on Cisco Trusted Platforms I looked at the hardware Trust Anchor module (TAm) that enhances the security of Cisco Service Provider products and provides visibility into the authenticity and integrity of the platforms. In this blog I will go over the software functionalities in IOS…

April 8, 2019

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SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco Trusted Platforms

Service Provider networks serve as critical infrastructure, and the security and trustworthiness of the network infrastructure is essential, as explained in both Sumeet’s blog and the Trusted Infrastructure video from Mobile World Congress. Providers of digital infrastructure must be able to verify…