Rahul Aggarwal
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Rahul Aggarwal is a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks and has played a significant role in the development of MPLS and in particular multicast in MPLS
and BGP VPNs.
He has significant innovations in the area of multicast in BGP/MPLS VPNs which are being standardized in the IETF. He has been granted several patents in the area of multicast in BGP/MPLS VPNs
He is also the co-author of multiple other IETF Internet drafts and RFCs in the areas of MPLS, IP Routing, VPNs and VPLS.
Roorkee. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from University of
Minnesota in 1998.
Mpls
MPLS or Mpls can refer to:* Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States* Multiprotocol Label Switching, a data-carrying mechanism in computer networking...
and BGP VPNs.
Career
Rahul Aggarwal started his career at Fore Systems in 1998 and then worked at Redback Networks where he was the primary MPLS architect on the SE800 platform. While at Redback he co-invented Point-to-multipoint MPLS RSVP-TE. P2MP MPLS TE was the stepping stone in MPLS Multicast development. Rahul Aggarwal joined Juniper Networks in 2003 and continued to pioneer P2MP RSVP-TE which grew into RFC 4875 that he co-edited.He has significant innovations in the area of multicast in BGP/MPLS VPNs which are being standardized in the IETF. He has been granted several patents in the area of multicast in BGP/MPLS VPNs
He is also the co-author of multiple other IETF Internet drafts and RFCs in the areas of MPLS, IP Routing, VPNs and VPLS.
Education
He received a B.E. in Electronics and Communication from Indian Institute of Technology,Roorkee. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from University of
Minnesota in 1998.