C S Ganesh joined HCL-Cisco offshore development center as a campus recruit in 1999. He built expertise in design and architecture of large scale systems. He specializes in addressing performance challenges. He is currently an Enterprise Architect there. He holds a BE from ACCET. Karaikudi and MS from IIT Madras. He recently completed his PhD from IIT Madras with his thesis on Optical data center networks under the guidance of Prof. Krishna Sivalingam. His interests include Computer Networks, Optical networks, Data center networks and Software engineering. He holds patents in the areas of network management, network security and system-level simplification.