{"id":7409,"date":"2008-11-17T14:17:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T14:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/sonus_cto_leaves_for_tellabs.html"},"modified":"2008-11-17T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T14:17:47","slug":"sonus-cto-leaves-for-tellabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/sonus-cto-leaves-for-tellabs.html","title":{"rendered":"Sonus CTO Leaves for Tellabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"display: inline;\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"168\" width=\"122\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" class=\"mt-image-left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/vikram-saksena.jpg\" alt=\"vikram-saksena.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have written about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/tag\/Vikram+Saksena\">Vikram Saksena<\/a> in the past &#8211; and as CTO of Sonus, I have had the chance to speak with him a few times and have always been impressed at how he has been able to discuss the intricacies of providing advanced communications services in a straightforward manner. This is one of the reasons I invited Saksena to <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted-communications.tmcnet.com\/topics\/broadband-comm\/articles\/37948-sonus-cto-addresses-future-voip-ip-communications.htm\">keynote<\/a> the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/\">ITEXPO<\/a> &#8211; where he did a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/att\/sonus-cto-at-itexpo.html\">great job<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Saksena is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tellabs.com\/news\/2008\/nr111708.shtml\">moving<\/a> on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=Tellabs\">Tellabs<\/a> and I wish him well. The question is how will Sonus replace him and will this high level departure increase pressure on the company at a time where other execs have recently departed as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written about Vikram Saksena in the past &#8211; and as CTO of Sonus, I have had the chance to speak with him a few times and have always been impressed at how he has been able to discuss the intricacies of providing advanced communications services in a straightforward manner. This is one of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,171,179,180,181,182,160,212,199,218,118,190,204,191,219,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}