Prakash Suthar is Principal Architect with Cisco Systems In. Core expertise in virtualization, NFVI and NANO for mobile service providers. Cisco certified expertise level knowledge in switching and routing protocols (OSPF, BGP), IPv6, software defined datacenter (SDDC), Hypervisor such VMware ESXi, Openstack KVM. Open stack experience on all releases starting with Havana. Open Network Operating System and SDN controller. Design and deployment in Openstack cloud. Prakash is one of featured regular speakers at Ciscolive, North America IPv6 forum, OPNFV, IEEE, and other Senior Technical Leadership forums. Prakash is MS in Information Technology, fellow of Institutions of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE), India. Prakash has industry certifications in CCIE in Service Provider and Datacenter, VMware Certified Professional, PMP. Prakash is senior member of IEEE.