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Sanjeev Mervana

Senior Director

Product & Solutions Marketing

As Senior Director of Marketing for Service Provider Business at Cisco, Sanjeev is responsible for setting and executing the strategic direction of products and solutions for Cisco Service Provider Solutions and Architectures around SDN, IP NGN, Mobility, Cloud and Video for   Cisco’s global service provider customers.

Sanjeev is an expert on a broad portfolio of intelligent Routing & Switching platforms, solutions software & architectures designed to meet service provider needs. Recent accomplishments of Sanjeev, includes the successful introduction of  ASR 9000 , ASR 900 & ME3600/3800  in the Service Provider Market segment,  as well as running the business of Carrier Ethernet Edge routing with platforms like Cisco 7600.

Sanjeev has been with Cisco for over 14 years and has authored a Cisco Press Book “Design Principles of DSL Based Access Solutions.” With over 20 years of experience in networking, Sanjeev has held prominent roles leading innovative and architectures and solutions around SDN, Broadband Aggregation, IPTV Carrier Ethernet and Mobile IP RAN business within Cisco.

Sanjeev holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from Pune University and currently resides in San Jose with his wife, daughter and son.

Articles

Security and What Matters Most…

Summer is officially in full swing. My kids have finished with another school year. Our family vacation has been planned. When the family is away on vacation together, I worry a bit about the safety and security of our home, our personal information and of course our physical well-being when traveli…

November 12, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cyta Hellas Deploys Cisco Optical Solution for new High Speed Optical Network

By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions Cyta Hellas, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Telecommunications Organization of Cyprus,  is the latest network operator to deploy Cisco’s Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transport solution for a new h…

October 22, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Register for the Infonetics Webinar: Building More Efficient Networks with Multi-Layer Packet-Optical

By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions Tuesday, October 28 at 8:00 am PT/11:00 am ET, Cisco joins Infonetics’ Andrew Schmitt (Principal Analyst, Optical) on a three vendor panel to discuss how equipment vendors and their customers are taking advantage of new mult…

October 10, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco at the Fall ’14 PONC, Oct 28-30, Baveno Italy – Informative Workshops

By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions The Fall ’14 Cisco Packet Optical Networking Conference (PONC) is quickly approaching – October 28-30 in Baveno & Vimercate, Italy.  Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in this highly compelling and informative ev…

Where Virtualization Does and Doesn’t Make Sense – An Optimization Primer

Written By Wayne Cullen, Senior Manager, Service Provider Architectures Along with cloud computing, M2M, collaboration, and hoodie sweatshirts, virtualization is a trend du jour. Like all trends, it’s based on an old idea (dating back to the mainframe era) that has now been reimagined for new purpo…

Fresh Perspectives on Monetization in Programmable Service Provider Networks

Written By Wayne Cullen, Senior Manager, Service Provider Architectures Agility. Scalability. Automation. Orchestration. Programmability. Service providers are exploring such an array of new and exciting capabilities these days! You hear a lot about lowering costs by increasing efficiency and decre…

Combining Cloud, NFV, and SDN to create agile new services

Written By Volker Tegtmeyer, Senior Manager Product & Solution Marketing The industry is going through a huge business transformation. Enterprises want to focus their resources and investments on their core business rather than investing in non-core IT operations. They are looking at consuming n…

Cisco Monetization and Optimization Index ( MOI) Measures and delivers Business Architectures for Service Providers

Did you know that by 2018, there will be in excess of $600 Billion dollars of revenue opportunities in cloud, mobile and video? Do you want to know the average cost per GB to deliver service over a Mobile IP network? Do you want to know the forecast of how much would it cost per GB to deliver video…

Cisco Spring ’14 Packet Optical Networking Conference (PONC) – The Secret Sauce

By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions Once again, network operators converged on the Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose last week (May 13-15) to collaborate with their colleagues and Cisco around the packet and optical convergence evolution.  On behalf of Cisco’s e…