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Articles by Ankur Singla
Ankur is the founder and CEO of Volterra. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of Contrail Systems, which pioneered telco NFV and SDN technologies. The company was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2012. Contrail is the most widely deployed networking platform in Tier 1 telco mobile networks (AT&T, DT, Orange, NTT and Reliance JIO). It is used in many SaaS providers’ cloud deployments (Workday, Volkswagen, DirecTV etc.). Prior to Contrail, Ankur was the CTO and VP Engineering at Aruba Networks, a global leader in wireless solutions. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
In order to further this dream, I’m excited to announce an important step in our journey. F5 has announced today that they will be acquiring Volterra and our ability to deliver the world’s most advanced edge-as-a-service platform and accelerating the creation of Edge 2.0.
This blog is the second in a series of blogs that cover various aspects of what it took for us to build and operate our SaaS service.
After more than two years of working with customers around the globe, heads-down development of a major platform, and yes, many long nights, we have hit a key milestone for our company -- launching.