Tejas Networks
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Tejas Networks is an India
n Networking and Telecom
equipment products company
from Bangalore
and US-based ASG-Omni. Headquartered in Bangalore
, it has R& D offices in Bangalore
, Mumbai
and Noida
. Tejas Networks has attracted $73 million of funding, from Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund
, Battery Ventures
and Goldman Sachs
, which put in $24 million, $20 million from Sandstone Capital (2008).
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.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n Networking and Telecom
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
equipment products company
Company
A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...
from Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
Corporate history
Tejas Networks was co-founded in May 2000 by Gururaj DeshpandeGururaj Deshpande
Gururaj Deshpande is an Indian American venture capitalist and entrepreneur, who is best known for co-founding the Chelmsford, MA-based internet equipment manufacturer Sycamore Networks, the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT and the Deshpande Foundation.Presently, Deshpande is...
and US-based ASG-Omni. Headquartered in Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
, it has R& D offices in Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
, Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
and Noida
Noida
Noida , short for the New Okhla Industrial Development Area, is an area in India under the management of the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority . Noida came into administrative existence on 17 April 1976 and celebrates 17 April as "Noida Day". It was set up as part of an urbanization...
. Tejas Networks has attracted $73 million of funding, from Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund
Mayfield Fund
Mayfield Fund is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the US, focusing on early-stage to growth-stage investments in information technology companies with a focus on enterprise software, Internet consumer & media services, and communications....
, Battery Ventures
Battery Ventures
Battery Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests principally in technology markets including: Internet & Digital Media; Financial & Information Services; Cleantech; Software; Semiconductors & Components; Infrastructure Technologies; Communication Services; and Industrial Technologies.The...
and Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...
, which put in $24 million, $20 million from Sandstone Capital (2008).
News and Events
- Tejas Networks launches India's first Optical networkingOptical networkingOptical networking can refer to:* Optical communication* Fiber-optic communication* Synchronous optical networking* Optical Transport Network * Passive optical network...
product , TJ-100, in 2001. - Mr T V Mohandas Pai of InfosysInfosysInfosys Limited, formerly Infosys Technologies Limited is a global technology services company headquartered in Bangalore, India. It is the second largest IT exporter in India with 133,560 employees as of March 2011. It has offices in 33 countries and development centers in India, China,...
and Prof J Ramachandran of the Indian Institute of ManagementIndian Institute of Management BangaloreThe Indian Institute of Management Bangalore is a business school located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It was established in 1973 by the Government of India, and is the third Indian Institute of Management to be established .It offers several Post Graduate and Doctoral programmes, as well as...
, BangaloreBangaloreBengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
, have joined the Tejas Networks Board as Independent Directors.
Awards and recognitions
- Tejas Networks has received the TEMA (Telecom Equipment Manufacturer's Association) Award for Excellence in Innovation 2007 and R & D in 2008.
- “Most Promising New Gen Companies”, Computers Today
- "Distinguished Product Company" by NASSCOMNASSCOMThe National Association of Software and Services Companies of IT software and services related activities for use of both the software developers as well as interested companies overseas....
, Dec 2005 - One of 20 Indian companies to watch out for in 2006”, Business TodayBusiness Today (Business Magazine)Business Today is an Indian fortnightly business magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1992. It had a second quarter 2010 readership of 338,000 per issue, ninth among English language magazines surveyed.-External links:...
- “One of 100 private companies in AsiaAsiaAsia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
that drive the technology industry's future”, Red HerringRed Herring (magazine)Red Herring was a technology business magazine, which flourished during the dot com boom, with global distribution and bureaus in Bangalore, Beijing, and Paris. It also sponsored conferences designed to bring venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and technologists together. But the magazine went into...
. - 8th IETE Corporate Award for Excellence in Telecommunications Systems, 2006
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research(CSIR) , India — Diamond Jubilee Technology Award 2006.
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/SONETSonet
Sonet may refer to:* Sonet Records, European record label* Synchronous optical networking * Saab Sonett...
and has been deploying Ethernet
Ethernet
Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....
-over-SDH /SONET.
It primarily supplies a range of optical transmission
Transmission (telecommunications)
Transmission, in telecommunications, is the process of sending, propagating and receiving an analogue or digital information signal over a physical point-to-point or point-to-multipoint transmission medium, either wired, optical fiber or wireless...
equipment, which enable the use of the optical fibre networks
Computer network
A computer network, often simply referred to as a network, is a collection of hardware components and computers interconnected by communication channels that allow sharing of resources and information....
. Tejas Networks designs the equipment but outsources manufacture, from Flextronics
Flextronics
Flextronics International Ltd. is an electronics manufacturing services provider that offers services to original equipment manufacturers . It also provides supporting supply chain services, including packaging and transportation throughout the world, as well as design and after-sales...
(India ), Celestica (India) and other electronic manufacturing service providers elsewhere in the world.