history
Established in the year 2000, Tejas Networks is a pioneering telecommunications company started by a passionate team of three global
technologists. Since then, Tejas Networks has grown into a USD 150 million company (FY 2008-09) with products deployed in over 50 countries
across the world and is ranked amongst the top companies in the optical transport market in India and across the world.
Milestones
- Ships 1,50,000th unit
- Launches portfolio for Defence
- Establishes Optical Networking Center of Excellence at JNTU Kakinada
- CTO Dr. Kumar N Sivarajan named ‘Techno Visionary’ by Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA)
- Wins NASSCOM Innovation Award for ‘New Technology Advancement’
- Wins ISA Best Electronic Product of the Year Award
- Launches Carrier Ethernet Aggregation switches
- First to demonstrate Open Ring ERPS with an MPLS core at Carrier Ethernet World Congress, Berlin
- Wins Deloitte Fast-500 Asia for the fifth year in a row
- Wins Deloitte Technology Fast-50 India for the fourth year in a row
- Launches TJ2000 Carrier Ethernet platform with Carrier Ethernet Access switches
- Launches DWDM portfolio
- First to demonstrate ERPS (Ethernet Ring Protection Switching) at Carrier Ethernet World Congress, Berlin
- One of the first commercial multi-point PBB-TE implementations
- Wins TEMA award for R&D excellence
- Wins Elcina D&B Award for Excellence in Exports
- Ships 100,000th MEF compliant Ethernet port
- Case on Tejas Networks written by Harvard Business School
- Receives Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) certification for its packet-aware optical products
- Wins Elcina D&B Award for Excellence in R&D
- Wins TEMA award for Excellence in Innovation
- Named Emerging Company of the Year, 2007 by Voice & Data magazine
- Part of Business Today’s “Top 10 IT company in India”
- Globally one of the first L2 solutions to be MEF certified
- Wins CSIR Diamond Jubilee Technology Award
- Wins IETE Corporate Award for Excellence in Telecommunications
- Wins Deloitte Fast-500 Asia
- Part of Business Today’s “Top 20 companies to watch in 2006”
- Named Red Herring Asia 100 winner
- Wins Deloitte Technology Fast-50 India
- Named ‘Distinguished Product Company’ by NASSCOM
- Opens new headquarters in Bangalore. Minister of Communications & IT, Dayanidhi Maran inaugurates.
- Wins TEMA award for excellence in R&D in Electronics
- CTO Dr. Kumar N Sivarajan wins ‘Technovators’ award from MIT
- Gets ISO 9001:2000 Certification
- Bags ten new customers in one year
- TJ100 used to build the first phase of RailTel’s National Optical Network. Link inaugurated by Minister for Railways,
Mr. Nitish Kumar.
- First commercial deployment of L1 Ethernet over SDH/SONET based on ITU standards
- Ranked as ‘Most Promising Next Gen Companies” by Computer Today (date TBD)
- Launches TJ100 family of versatile, carrier-class optical access products
- Signs up the first customer, Tata Power
- Named amongst “India’s 25 upstarts” by Silicon India
- Tejas Networks established in a rented basement by Sanjay Nayak, Dr. Kumar N Sivarajan and Arnob Roy
in Bangalore with capital investment by Dr. Gururaj Deshpande