Selecting appropriate technology with Baktha Muralidharan

His first job to develop electronics solutions for use in the Indian Navy, for data collection

Getting an exposure to software towards the end of his course and liking it

After masters, getting a job at Digital and getting an opportunity to work on ethernet that was just becoming more widely adopted

Creating an ethernet with existing hardware and infrastructure, in the lab - to connect computers

Exploring client server approaches in the early days, understanding the close relationship between computers and networking

Developing a print server and later working on frame relay technology and network management

Learning SNMP [Simple Network Management Protocol] that opened up new opportunities for his career

Moving to Lucent, when AT&T was split up

Working on MIB - Management Information Base - for knobs that could be manipulated to change the behavior of networks

How DSL technology enabled having multiple phones [numbers] in a home

Moving to Cisco, when the company was acquired

Preferring to work more with technology and interfacing with people - read customers - and so, taking up roles in service, over software development

Why one needs appropriate technology and not necessarily the latest technology, when IT is an enabler for the core business