Tejas Networks augments its senior management team Appoints Mr. Yossi Yehiel as Vice President, Manufacturing Operations

Bangalore, India, September 29, 2005: - Tejas Networks today announced the appointment of Mr. Yossi Yehiel as Vice President, Manufacturing Operations. Prior to joining Tejas, Mr. Yehiel was Head of Program Management for Visonic (Israel) and was earlier the Director of Operations at Atrica, a leading Metro Ethernet startup in Israel where he established and managed the company operations from the start-up to production phase.

"We are seeing tremendous customer success for our next-generation SDH/SONET products. We are now scaling up our supply chain and manufacturing operations to meet the growing demand of our customers in India as well as internationally", said Sanjay Nayak, CEO, Tejas Networks. "We are pleased to have Yossi join us as a part of our senior management team. He brings in a wealth of operational and supply chain experience and will play a key role in ensuring that we build a world-class supply chain and high quality operations at Tejas". Commenting on the same, Mr. Yehiel said, "Tejas has a powerful vision and technology roadmap to become a globally successful company in next-generation optical space. Tejas has a great team and I am very excited about moving to Bangalore and being a part of it."

About Mr. Yossi Yehiel

Mr. Yehiel brings a wealth of Operations and Management experience to the Tejas Networks. Prior to joining Tejas, Mr. Yossi Yehiel was Head of Program Management for Visonic, a leading provider of home security systems. Before joining Visonic he was the Director of Operations at Atrica, a leading Metro Ethernet startup where he established and managed the company's operations from the start up to production phase. Mr. Yehiel had previously served as NPI Manger for 3Com ATM Division in Israel where he managed worldwide contract manufacturing business of US $200 Million. Mr. Yehiel holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree (Hons) in Manufacturing System Engineering with Management from the University of London, England.

About Tejas Networks

Tejas Networks is the first telecom product company from India, which has developed software-differentiated, next generation SDH/SONET products that enable telecom carriers to converge traditional voice-based networks with the new data-dominated networks, in a cost-effective way. Thousands of Tejas systems have been successfully carrying live traffic in carrier-class networks in India as well as internationally. Contact Tejas Networks at http://www.tejasnetworks.com