Executive Vice President & General Manager, Infrastructure and Networking Group
Rajiv Ramaswami serves as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom's Infrastructure and Networking
Group. In this role he is responsible for all Ethernet controller, switching and physical layer products, optical
solutions, storage products, security and embedded processors. The group's products and technologies are targeted to
enterprise, service provider and data center markets. End products offered by this group include Ethernet controllers
for notebooks, desktops and servers; storage silicon solutions; and physical layer devices, optical solutions, switches,
security and embedded processors for Layer 2 to Layer 7 switches, routers and security appliances - equipment that delivers
and manages the flow of voice, video and data services within and across networks.
Mr. Ramaswami joined Broadcom in 2010 after serving as Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Services and Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems, Inc. where he also served as Vice President and General Manager for a variety of Business Units in Optical, Switching and Storage Networking.
Prior to joining Cisco, he served in various technical and leadership positions at Xros, Tellabs and IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.
Mr. Ramaswami holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras. He holds 33 U.S. patents primarily in optical networking, and has coauthored a textbook, "Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective". He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras.
