Chandan Kathal

Senior Professional 1 @Aricent

Worked in Cisco TAC as Technical Consulting Engineer for DC Routing And Switching Team. DC Routing & Switching : • Knowledge of architecture of Nexus 2k, 3K, 5k, 6k, 7k, 9K switches. • Layer 2 protocols- Spanning-tree (STP/RSTP/MSTP), LACP, ARP, VPC • FHRP Protocols like HSRP, VRRP. • Routing Fundamentals: Static routing, PBR, VRF Lite. • Multicast: IGMP, PIM (Sparse mode, RP, shared tree) etc. • IGP Routing protocols: OSPF, EIGRP etc. • BGP Routing: eBGP/iBGP Path selection and manipulation, MP-BGP etc. • VXLAN: BGP EVPN Control-plane, External VRF Connectivity, Route leaking, VPC Fabric-peering, DHCP Relay, Multi-Site, Multi-pod etc. ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES : • Hire new CSEs for the organization and training and mentoring them as well. • Handling team escalations and writing Knowledge Base articles. • Manage and control the team’s local lab