Srinivas Nimmagadda

Srinivas Nimmagadda, director of marketing and applications engineering for optical networking at Infineon, said that the design win shows that RPR is more flexible than a simple Sonet replacement.

"To effectively handle Layer 2 capabilities, the mapper has to support VLAN manipulation and MPLS," said Srinivas Nimmagadda, director of marketing at Infineon.
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"Some customers would want to do the packet processing themselves," Nimmagadda said.

"Collaborating with ZTE to bring RPR solutions to market builds on Infineon's commitment to the market, meeting the growing demand for the technology and strengthening our relationship with one of the region's technology innovators," said Srinivas Nimmagadda, director of marketing for optical networking, Infineon Technologies.