Cisco Appoints Alex Zinin As CTO- Service Provider Business, APAC & Japan

Cisco has appointed industry veteran Alex Zinin as its Chief Technology Officer for its service provider business in Asia Pacific and Japan. Reporting directly to Edzard Overbeek, Cisco’s president for Asia Pacific and Japan, Zinin will work closely with Cisco’s service provider customers in areas such as Internet Protocol Next-Generation Networks (IP NGN), video, mobility, data centres and cloud computing.

Zinin, a respected industry expert with 20 years in the IP networking industry, has helped shape key Internet routing and Multiprotocol Label Switching technologies. He has contributed extensively to the Internet Engineering Task Force as the author and contributor to a number of protocol specifications. Zinin joins Cisco from Alcatel-Lucent, where his last role was Vice President for IP solutions in Asia Pacific.

“This is a strategic and key hire for us in this part of the world. The industry is going through significant change as Internet usage patterns are being redefined by trends in cloud computing, video, mobility and social media. Alex will partner closely with Jeff White and Hiroyuki Tsutsumi, our Vice Presidents for service provider sales in Asia Pacific and Japan respectively, to help Cisco’s service provider customers navigate through this dynamic and transitioning landscape,” Overbeek said.

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