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Siraj, a co-founder of Menara, brings over 14 years of experience in optical transmission in particular and the telecom industry in general. Prior to founding Menara, Siraj served as Vice President - Marketing & Product Management at Nortel responsible for the OPTera LH 4000 ULR product (acquired from Qtera); that achieved over $200M in revenues in its first two years. Prior to that, Siraj was the Product Architect & Vice President of Product Management at Qtera Corporation, a successful technology Start-up acquired by Nortel in 2000 for $3.25 Billion. Siraj also held a Senior Manager position at Bell Northern Research and worked as a Transmission Engineer at WilTel (WorldCom) where he evaluated and deployed the world first bidirectional EDFA and bi-directional WDM transmission. Siraj holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and is the inventor of 11 patents, issued or pending, in the area of optical communications. He authored a number of publications and is a frequent speaker at telecom and optical networking events and conferences. | 