Cisco has appointed Alex Zinin as its chief technology officer for its service provider business in Asia Pacific and Japan.
Reporting directly to Edzard Overbeek, Cisco’s president for Asia Pacific and Japan, Zinin will work closely with Cisco’s service provider customers in areas such as IP NGNs, video, mobility, data centers and cloud computing.
He joins Cisco from Alcatel-Lucent, where his last role was vice president for IP solutions in Asia Pacific and an Alcatel-Lucent fellow.
Zinin, contributed extensively to the Internet Engineering Task Force as the author and contributor to a number of protocol specifications.
He served as an IETF working group chair and as a Routing Area director, fostering the evolution and development of internet technologies.
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