Name: Arjun Roychowdhury

Contact: arjunrc at gmail dot com 

Profile: 

Arjun Roychowdhury is responsible for driving the Converged Applications & IMS practice within Hughes Systique Corporation. Under his direction, HSC  provides consulting services to ISVs, Operators & OEMs for conceptualization, realization and deployment issues related to IMS and applications leveraging the IMS architecture. As part of the Converged Applications practice , HSC provides architecture and development services to leading ISVs and OEMs in cutting edge techologies & domains such as PoC, Flash-lite based applications, Social networking applications and more. The dual focus on both business and technology areas gives him a unique hands-on insight into both the infrastructure level as well as what is takes to create applications on top of these emerging networks.
Arjun has been involved with SIP standardization since its inception and is intimately familiar with its evolution as well as deployment and customization across a variety of networks. He has consulted with a wide variety of customers in areas ranging from IMS Network validation, gap analysis of existing IMS products to conceptualization and deployment of new applications for handsets and servers.
He is the industry representative for HSC at IETF and is an active participant at various Standardization Bodies and has been invited to speak at several tradeshows including VoN, Internet Telephony and more. Previously, he was the chair of the SIP WG at the IPCC (formerly the International Softswitch Consortium) and continues to be a full member of the SIPForum.
In the past, Arjun was responsible for VoIP product architecture and technology strategy for a large infrastructure vendor in VoIP where he was responsible for architecting the product line, overseeing customer deployment, and transforming it into one of the most successful SIP infrastructure products in the industry

Arjun has consulted with over 200 customers in the VoIP space recommending suitable product strategies, deployment and development architectures. In addition, he  is the industry representative for HSC interests and is very active at the IETF (SIP/SIPPING/XCON/3GPP) and has been invited to speak at several tradeshows including VoN, Internet Telephony and more. In the past, he  was the chair of the SIP WG at the IPCC (formerly the International Softswitch Consortium)

Industry Affiliations:

  • ex Chair for SIP Working group in International Softswitch Consortium
  • SIPForum

His Passion(s):

 - Converting a great technology to a realizable end-user benefit

- He is a photographer as well as the chief editor of a popular photography magazine with over 50,000 readers

- Dare he say, blogging ?

 

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