Kannan Babu Ramia

Principal Engineer: NCGL Architecture Team at Intel Corporation

Principal Engineer in the Data Center Group (DCG) @Intel. Kannan is responsible for driving the telecommunication service provider’s network transformation with NFV (Network Function Virtualization) and SDN (Software Defined Networking) with an end goal for successful transformation to 5G. Kannan has worked over 23yrs in the Communication Networking Domain, developing deeper domain knowledge skills. Kannan has deeper knowledge in packet processing, Data plane developer Kit (DPDK) and designing communication workload to x86 architecture for optimized performance.

Kannan is the chief architect for Edge Software Services aka OpenNESS, an initiative to accelerate the deployment of edge services into the service provider’s & enterprise network. He is a wireless domain expert—particularly in the wireless core infrastructure—driving the next generation evolution, working closely with leading service providers. Kannan has multiple patents and publications in the communication and networking area.