Mr. Kasim has over 16 years of experience in the US telecommunications industry. In his current
position, he is responsible for developing and executing the business development strategy for an
Ethernet access portfolio. Previously, he worked in several roles at Sprint, in areas spanning from
product planning and service architecture to software development and equipment engineering.
Most substantially, he led the engineering and implementation of some of the nation??™s earliest
and largest SONET and WDM deployments. Mr. Kasim holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree
in Computer Science and Engineering frm the University College of Engineering, Bangalore
University, India; a Masters degree in Computer Science from Kansas State University. He also
holds a Masters degree in the Management of Technology from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT). He has also undertaken graduate study at the University of Kansas
and Harvard University. He is a member of the Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure (HOPI)
corporate advisory board that supports the development of new technologies for Internet2, the
next-generation Internet.
About the Contributing Authors
Prasanna Adhikari was most recently the Vice President of Networking at ClearMesh
Networks.
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