Mahesh Jethanandani

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Mahesh Jethanandani

Mahesh Jethanandani (muh-HAYSH JETH-uh-nan-DAH-nee) is Distinguished Engineer at Arrcus.

Mahesh is a strategic leader and architect in manageability, programmability, and automation of networks, ranging from the datacenter, enterprise networks to service provider networks. He is responsible for the management strategy at Arrcus, driving the requirement with all its customers, and enabling them towards a programmable way to manage their networks.

Mahesh has been driving internet standards since 2006, initially as an individual contributor, and then as Work Group (WG) chair for NETCONF WG. He has participated in IEEE, in MEF driving the MEF 58 specification, in ETSI driving the GS NFV SOL006 specification, and in O-RAN.

Mahesh received his Masters in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University. Before joining Arrcus, he worked briefly in Juniper, and before that in VMware driving the O-RAN E2 Interface specification for the 5G RAN solution. Before joining VMware, he was Principal Engineer at Cisco responsible for manageability of the IOS-XR platform. He also worked at Ciena as an architect for their data network switching platforms.

Roles

Role Group Email
Area Director Getting Ready for Energy-Efficient Networking (green) mjethanandani@gmail.com
Area Director Autonomic Networking Integrated Model and Approach (anima) mjethanandani@gmail.com
Area Director Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg) mjethanandani@gmail.com
Area Director Network Inventory YANG (ivy) mjethanandani@gmail.com
Area Director Network Configuration (netconf) mjethanandani@gmail.com
Area Director Network Modeling (netmod) mjethanandani@gmail.com
Area Director Network Management Operations (nmop) mjethanandani@gmail.com
Area Director Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg) mjethanandani@gmail.com
Area Director AAA Doctors (aaadoctors) mjethanandani@gmail.com
Area Director Operations and Management Area (ops) mjethanandani@gmail.com
Area Director MIB Doctors (mibdoctors) mjethanandani@gmail.com
Area Director Ops Directorate (opsdir) mjethanandani@gmail.com
Area Director Performance Metrics Directorate (perfmetrdir) mjethanandani@gmail.com
Area Director YANG Doctors (yangdoctors) mjethanandani@gmail.com
Chair Operations & Management Area Open Meeting (opsarea) mjethanandani@gmail.com

RFCs (10)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 6429 Dec 2011 TCP Sender Clarification for Persist Condition 3 RFCs
RFC 6952 May 2013 Analysis of BGP, LDP, PCEP, and MSDP Issues According to the Keying and Authentication for Routing Protocols (KARP) Design Guide 25 RFCs
RFC 7492 Mar 2015 Analysis of Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Security According to the Keying and Authentication for Routing Protocols (KARP) Design Guidelines
RFC 7818 Mar 2016 URN Namespace for MEF Documents
RFC 8515 Feb 2019 URN Namespace for ETSI Documents
RFC 8519 Mar 2019 YANG Data Model for Network Access Control Lists (ACLs) 13 RFCs
RFC 8913 Nov 2021 Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP) YANG Data Model 1 RFC
RFC 9046 Jun 2021 Babel Information Model
RFC 9127 Oct 2021 YANG Data Model for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) 8 RFCs
RFC 9314 Sep 2022 YANG Data Model for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) 1 RFC

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