Kumar Mehta

Founder and CDO, Versa Networks

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Kumar brings a proven track record of leading mega-projects at startups as well as publicly traded companies. His vision, work ethic, and leadership as VP of Engineering at Juniper Networks resulted in multiple blockbuster product deliveries, including the market-leading Metro and Carrier Ethernet solution, the MX series.

His leadership in design, development, and delivery of differentiated solutions resulted in huge and continuing revenue streams for the company and brought Kumar the prestigious CEO Excellence Award. Prior to Juniper, Kumar held engineering management positions at Riverstone Networks and Yago Systems.

Kumar is a graduate of the Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He has a Master’s degree in Engineering from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

19 Patents, Most recent include:

9,762,494

Flow distribution table for packet flow load balancing

9,736,036

Variable-based forwarding path construction for packet processing within a network device

9,231,871

Flow distribution table for packet flow load balancing

8,948,174

Variable-based forwarding path construction for packet processing within a network device

8,806,043

Server selection during retransmit of a request

8,693,398

High-availability mobile gateways having interchassis non-uniform service unit redundancy

8,520,680

Address learning in a layer two bridging network

8,520,615

Breakout gateway for mobile data traffic

8,509,248

Routing frames in a computer network using bridge identifiers

8,199,753

Forwarding frames in a computer network using shortest path bridging

Blog Posts

What the Future Holds for SD-WAN in 2017

December 20, 2016

It’s Cool to Be a Gartner “Cool Vendor”

May 9, 2016

Versa Networks to Continue Momentum Across Geographies and Use Cases in
2016

January 14, 2016

Versa Launches New Branch & WAN Architecture

November 10, 2015

Credentials

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Executive Program

Virginia Tech

Master of Science (MS)
Engineering

IIT Kharagpur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
Engineering

Publications

SASE For Dummies

eBook By Kumar Mehta & Apurva Mehta

Want to learn about secure access service edge (SASE) but not sure where to start? Download Versa’s free SASE for Dummies e-book and start learning today!