Cariden Technologies - IP/MPLS Planning and Traffic Engineering Software

John is responsible for business operations at Cariden, including Sales Support, IT, and Licensing. This role reflects John’s broad industry experience in a variety of sales, technical, and management roles at companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Apple Computer.

John holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Physics from Cornell University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, respectively. He also has a Doctorate in Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.

Jerry is responsible for Finance, HR, and Facilities at Cariden. Prior to joining the company, Jerry gathered extensive industry experience while running Finance departments at companies such as Sylantro Systems and Matisse Networks, as well as managing a KPMG team that provided tax services to approximately 40 high-tech clients.

Jerry holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from San Jose State University in Taxation and in Business Administration/Accounting, respectively.

Phil is responsible for building successful, sustainable business partnerships with Cariden’s technology and channel partners. Prior to joining Cariden, Phil held a variety of business development and marketing positions within software and networking companies, including venture funded startups, Cisco, BMC Software, and Cable & Wireless.

Phil has a Bachelor’s degree in Business from City University in London.

Cesar is responsible for driving the engineering of Cariden’s industry-leading traffic management products. Prior to joining Cariden in 2004, Cesar led software engineering at Barcelona Design.

Cesar holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. He also has a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford where he developed automated methods for analysis of convexity properties of nonlinear optimization problems.

Jeffrey is leading the expansion of Cariden’s business portfolio into adjacent markets and supporting the sales organization. Prior to joining Cariden, Jeffrey worked in the Technology Group at American Capital, a private equity firm, pursuing venture investments and leveraged buyout opportunities in technology-oriented companies.  Jeffrey also has extensive networking industry experience gained during roles co-founding iPath Technologies and building Verizon’s first national MPLS/IP backbone.

Jeffrey has an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a BS from the University of Rhode Island.

Peter heads up Cariden operations in APAC, as well as having direct responsibility for Network Consulting in the region. Prior to joining Cariden in 2007, Peter held various senior network-engineering positions for NTT America where he spent twelve years building and operating their global networks, including architecting their IP/MPLS backbone covering Asia Pacific, the United States, and Europe.

Peter contributes to the networking community through active involvement in industry bodies: currently he co-chairs the IETF Global Routing Operations (GROW) working group and he was formerly heavily involved in the IEEE 802 Higher Speed Study Group, which defined the requirements for Ethernet speeds greater than 10 gigabits.

At Global Crossing, two of the most crucial aspects of our business are network reliability and network performance.

Global Crossing operates a global network that spans 101,000 route miles across four continents containing over 100 Points of Presence (PoPs).

As the capacity planning manager at Global Crossing, it’s my job to ensure there is enough capacity in our network to maintain the highest quality of service standards for our customers at all times. It’s a matter of supplying adequate capacity to the right places at the right times—and at the lowest possible cost.

It is with great enthusiasm that I write to recommend the Cariden MATE product. Global Crossing has been using Cariden MATE since August 2002 as a tool for simulating and optimizing our network and for streamlining our maintenance processes.

Here are some of the outstanding features I would like to highlight:

Cariden MATE provides Global Crossing with MPLS-specific optimizations that we have not seen in any other product. We’ve been able to successfully incorporate MATE’s optimization recommendations during capex planning and network planning. MATE shows us how to sustain outstanding network performance during rapid traffic growth at the lowest possible cost in new hardware.

I like MATE’s streamlined user experience: from raw configurations and demand dumps to reports and tunnel settings. Our former tool required expertise in the tool, which had little to do with networking. I also like the GUI’s convenient methods for setting thresholds, drill-down site views, path analysis, and simulation summary reports. Simulations that formerly took over 100 minutes now take less than four minutes. But most of all, I like the fact that I can run MATE on my laptop and no longer have to connect to a server to run network simulations.

Customer Service. In seven months of using MATE, Cariden has been very responsive to Global Crossing’s requests for improvements or optimizations, such as more convenient route exporting and improved latency calculations.

I would definitely recommend Cariden MATE to others.

Cariden MATE is used by PTTs, ISPs, MSOs, and mobile operators worldwide. Our customers range from the largest carriers to many smaller regional operators.

Cariden History: Innovation, Leadership, Results

Cariden was founded in 2001. We became initially well-known for our traffic engineering (TE) software. Our simulation and offline path-computation modules were quickly adopted by the leading ISPs who practiced MPLS TE, often replacing competitors’ software that was judged too slow and cumbersome.

We introduced Metric Optimization, a one-of-a-kind software for IP TE, in 2002. The technology won us many accolades as a scientific feat that had been judged impossible before. The product was adopted by engineering organizations with a mandate to achieve efficiency and a desire not to complicate network operations.

Cariden became profitable in 2003.

By 2005, MATE was deployed by many of the largest carriers in the world.

In 2007, we introduced another one-of-a-kind software. The MATE Visualization Package is a marvel of simplicity. It provides network visibility in a streamlined, and highly affordable manner, “out of the box”.

Since 2009 Cariden MATE has been adopted by eight of the eleven Tier 1 ISPs and has emerged as the standard for IP/MPLS planning and traffic engineering.

Thomas heads up Cariden operations in Europe, Middle East, and Africa, as well as having direct responsibility for Network Consulting in the region. Thomas was on our advisory board before joining Cariden permanently in 2004. Prior to that, he was responsible for global network architecture at companies such as Global Crossing, AT&T-Unisource Communications Services, SURFnet, and others.

Thomas is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including NANOG and RIPE, and has published many papers on network design, modeling, traffic management, and related subjects. He is also a contributor to the IETF.

Arash defines the Company’s technological vision. Prior to founding Cariden in 2001, Arash had roles leading engineering at companies such as Apple Computer, Microsoft, Broadbase Software, and Vertical Networks where he was the principal architect of their award-winning network management software.

Arash has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University in Iran. He has also done post-graduate work in computer science at Amir Kabir and Stanford Universities.

Drawing on his extensive experience in the development and productization of applied mathematical optimization software, Alan drives strategic product direction for Cariden, including overseeing Product Management and Product Design. Prior to founding Cariden in 2001, Alan held a variety of senior positions at Broadbase Software, EFG Software, and AT&T Labs.

Alan has a Bachelor’s degree in Math and Statistics from the University of Natal, and a PhD in Statistics. While completing his doctoral and postdoctoral work at Stanford University, Alan designed statistical and optimization methods for large-scale systems.

As President, Arman has been responsible for building Cariden into a highly profitable and respected business. He continues to lead the company as it strengthens its position as the networking industry’s de facto standard for IP/MPLS capacity planning and traffic engineering. 

Prior to founding Cariden in 2001, Arman held management, software development, and research positions at Apple Computer, Coral Software, Fidelity Investments, and Advanced Telecommunications Research Labs.

Arman holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College, and Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Statistics from Yale and Stanford Universities, respectively. He also has a Doctorate in Linguistics from Stanford where he was honored as a Hertz Fellow.

In Brief

Cariden was founded in 2001 with the mission of providing design, planning and operational automation intelligence for managing complex networks. Today, Cariden’s flagship product MATE™ is the industry standard for IP/MPLS traffic management, offering easy-to-use software solutions for a diverse set of customers across all aspects of telecommunications.

MATE is being used daily on many of the largest networks in the world.

• Engineering uses MATE to perform failure analysis and traffic management.
• Planning uses MATE to design networks, adjust for growth and perform what-if analyses on new and existing networks.
• Operations uses MATE to monitor the network in real-time, shifting traffic around points of congestion and maintaining optimal network performance.

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