Kumar Jayaprakash has over 20 years of experience in the telecom and networking Industry. He drives the strategy and provides direction and leadership for all the lab programs at CNLabs, the network interoperability and conformance test lab based in Bangalore. Prior to this role, Jayaprakash was leading several engineering efforts at Cisco including launch of the Next Generation access switch platforms. During his career, Jayaprakash has handled various projects in enterprise routing, switching, wireless and telecom domains in design, development and test roles in multiple companies across US, Japan and India.