Rahul Aggarwal recently joined the IP routing group at Juniper Networks. Prior to joining Juniper Networks he was with the SmartEdge IP routing group at Redback Networks. He was one of the leading architects and developers of the MPLS implementation on the SmartEdge 800 Router. He contributed to the design and development of MPLS Traffic Engineering, Layer 3 VPNS, Layer 2 VPNs and VPLS on the SE800 router.

Prior to joining Redback Networks, he was at Fore Systems between 1998 and 2000, where he worked on the development of OSPF, MPLS and Traffic Engineering. He received a B.E. in Electronics and Communication from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 1996. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from University of Minnesota in 1998. His Graduate Research was focussed on QoS and stored video delivery across resource constrained networks.

His professional interests include routing and signaling development, IP and MPLS system and forwarding design, packet classification, VPNs, subscriber management, QoS and Traffic Engineering.