Dev Gupta designed the first vDSL chip in 1994, which is now transforming cable TV networks worldwide. His new analog signal processor designed in silicon germanium (SiGe) doubled, and later quintupled, the bandwidth of coaxial cable networks, enabling 100 Mbps access to small and medium businesses and to homes. Narad Networks has developed managed broadband access solutions that deliver managed bandwidth to a level consistent with the capacity of the optical network core. Gupta has come to be regarded as an expert in broadband and network access infrastructure technologies. Prior to Narad, he founded two companies. MaxComm Technologies (developed residential and telephone central office products for voice and data integration) and Dagaz Technologies (digital subscriber line access multiplexors and associated customer premises equipment). Both companies were acquired by Cisco for around $267 million He had also served as vice president of architecture and technology at Cisco’s access business unit, and senior level management positions at Bell Laboratories.

Gupta holds a BS in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur, an MS in electrical engineering from the University of Maine, and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of several technical papers and holds numerous US patents. n