Paresh Khatri

About Paresh Khatri

Paresh Khatri is the CTO and Chief Architect for the IP Networks Business Division for Nokia Corporation in APAC.  In this role, Paresh is responsible for formulating platform and architecture strategies to meet the varied demands of operators in the Asia-Pacific region.  He has been responsible for architectural design for the largest IP transformation projects in the region and is now working closely with service providers as they address the growing demand for scale and new services that will be enabled by the evolution to 5G/6G, AI workloads and the metaverse.

Paresh’s areas of expertise include the entire range of IP/MPLS technologies and applications, from the network core to the access network. His current areas of interest include 5G transport, coherent routing, network slicing, segment routing and other SDN technologies.

Paresh has more than 27 years of experience with both service providers and vendors in building carrier-grade IP/MPLS networks and has been with Nokia for the last 22 years.

Paresh is a regular speaker at industry conferences in the APAC region and also actively participates in a number of telecommunications industry standards bodies.

Paresh holds a Bachelors of Electronic Systems Engineering (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Information Technology from the Queensland University of Technology.