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About
Jag Bolaria
Jag
Bolaria is a senior analyst at The Linley Group. During more
than
20 years in the communication and PC semiconductor industries,
he defined and launched products that have generated billion-dollar
revenues and shipped more than 100 million units. He is the coauthor
of A Guide to Broadband
Chips, Communications
Silicon Market Forecast, A
Guide to Ethernet Switch and PHY Chips, A
Guide to 10G Ethernet Adapters and Controller Chips, A
Guide to Storage Processors, A
Guide to Backplane Switch Chips, A
Guide to High-Speed Interconnects, and Communications
Silicon Market Share 2007. Jag has spoken
at several industry conferences including the AdvancedTCA Summit,
Network Systems Design
Conference, Wescon, Northcon and Min/Micro. He has written several
application notes as well as articles for EDN and other magazines.
His extensive industry experience includes senior roles in both
marketing and engineering.
Before joining
The Linley Group, Jag was the director of network systems and validation
for Intels Ethernet components. He joined this group as the
director of marketing, responsible for strategic, product and technical
marketing. In this role, he worked directly with major customers
including Cisco, Nortel, Lucent, D-Link, and Hewlett-Packard.
Prior to this,
Jag was in Intels PC division. As director of marketing for
chip sets, he led the development of product plans, design wins,
and customer support for Pentium and P6 chip sets, working with
all major PC suppliers worldwide. Later, Jag built the PC platform
driver marketing group from scratch to provide world-class software
support.
Jag also held
positions in Intels communications group in technical marketing,
product marketing, strategic marketing and marketing management
roles. He had worldwide product management responsibility for codec/filters,
modems, ISDN components, and LAN devices. During this time, he worked
with engineers at AT&T, Fujitsu, IBM, NEC, Nortel/BNR, Rolm,
and Siemens among others.
Jag started
his career as an R&D engineer with Standard Telecom Labs (STL),
then the research arm of ITT in the U.K. During his three-year tenure
with STL, he developed hardware and software for the prototype ISDN
switches and LAN ring architectures over optical fiber. Jag earned
a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics, with honors, from the
University of Salford in the U.K.
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