VACH KOMPELLA
CREDIT: NOKIA
VACH KOMPELLA
TITLE: SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & GENERAL MANAGER, IP NETWORKS DIVISION
COMPANY: NOKIA INDUSTRY: TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Vach Kompella, Bell Labs Fellow, leads Nokia’ s IP Networks Division with over 25 years’ experience, contributing to MPLS and VPLS, industry standards and academic research. low latency design principles at every layer – from physical hardware to software and automation.
Its EDA AIOps, for example, continuously analyses network behaviour in real time, detecting micro-delays that could affect training synchronisation or data flow. By dynamically rerouting traffic or rebalancing loads, it ensures that latency-sensitive applications, such as AI model training or inference, operate at peak efficiency.
The company’ s alignment with the UEC and its focus on open standards further position it to shape the next generation of Ethernet-based networking for AI. As AI workloads increasingly rely on east-west data movement between accelerators, reducing microseconds of delay per hop can deliver exponential performance improvements at scale.