Pradeep Sindhu is an

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business executive. He is the

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, chief development officer (CDO) and co-founder of data center technology company Fungible. Previously, he co-founded

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, where he was the chief scientist and served as CEO until 1996.

Biography

Sindhu holds a B.Tech. in

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(1974) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, M.S. in electrical engineering (1976) from the

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, and a

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(1982) in

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from

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where he studied under Bob Sproull.

Work

Sindhu had worked at the Computer Science Lab of

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for 11 years. Sindhu worked on design tools for

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(VLSI) of

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and high-speed interconnects for shared memory architecture

multiprocessor Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system. The term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor or the ability to allocate tasks between them. There ar ...

s. Sindhu founded Juniper Networks along with Dennis Ferguson and Bjorn Liencres in February 1996 in

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. The company was subsequently reincorporated in

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in March 1998 and went public on 25 June 1999. Sindhu worked on the architecture, design, and development of the Juniper M40 data router. Sindhu's earlier work subsequently influenced the architecture, design, and development of

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' first high-performance multiprocessor system family, which included systems such as the SS1000 and SC2000. Sindhu is the founder and CEO of data center technology company Fungible.

References

External links

Pradeep Sindhu's entry
on the Juniper Networks Website
Interview with Pradeep Sindhu
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