Chennai telecom and networking group

Last evening, a group of enthusiastic telecom professionals from Chennai gathered at the Park Sheraton Hotel for the inaugural meeting of the Chennai telecom interest group. We hope to convene once a month to share our knowledge or to just hang out with people from the telecom / networking industry. Gokul also has coverage on his blog.

After  a round of introductions, we had people share their knowledge about VoIP, SIP, IMS, WiMAX, Mobile application delivery platforms, the entrepreneurial climate in India, the VC scenario in India, social networking, the state of Indian mobile operators, the technical direction of various European mobile operators, and so forth.  We even had Chandra  share his experiences with mobile services in Ethiopia and Somalia. Chandra is also an active member of the SIP forum.

Things got even more interesting after the arrival of Subbu, who is a consultant with the ETSI. He talked about the latest standards activities in the Mobile/IMS space. I must admit most of it went over my head, but it was just great to have a person with such technical depth in this group.

Some pics :

 

L->R : Nitin, Gokul (yes the VoIP blogger),  Vasu, Subbu (standing)

 

L->R : Madhu, Aravind, Anbu

 

L->R: Vijay Anand (blogger, entrepreneur, and brains behind Proto.In), Jayadev, Ravi, empty chair where Chandra was sitting a few seconds back

Credit must go to Vijay for taking the lead with getting this group together. I think he is one of the very few individuals in India who is solidly tuned to both the entrepreneurial and investor channels. (excuse the bad mobile pun) 

If you are interested in the technology side of telecom, VoIP, IMS, wireless, networking, or security please contact any of us or just show up at the next meeting.

Apologies : I got some names wrong in the first pass of this post.

[tags] chennai telecom, entrepreneur, voip, ims [/tags]

Author: Vivek Rajagopalan

Vivek Rajagopalan is the a lead developer for Trisul Network Analytics. Prior products were Unsniff Network Analyzer and Unbrowse SNMP. Loves working with packets , very high speed networks, and helping track down the bad guys on the internet. View all posts by Vivek Rajagopalan