Hyperscale networking firm Arrcus is set to expand its operations in India as it looks to take advantage of the country’s growing digital infrastructure market.

Based in San Jose, California, Arrcus offers advanced networking technologies, such as its ACE-AI solution that optimizes distributed GPU and other compute resources to improve performance for AI workloads.

The firm has set its sights on providing networking technologies for India’s burgeoning data center market. Hyperscale projects in the region are burgeoning, with several major developments underway. These include a potential site for OpenAI's Stargate project, a $6 billion facility in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, planned by Google, and the Adani Group's proposed $10 billion investment in gigawatt data centers across Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Tamil Nadu.

To support its Indian expansion, Arrcus has hired Vikram Anand to serve as managing director for sales and business development in the country. He joins the company from the Nokia-owned optical firm Infinera, where he served as VP of sales, bringing with him experience from prior roles at Cisco, VMware, and Ciena.

Anand is set to spearhead Arrcus's go-to-market strategies in India, working with both customers and partners. He’ll lead the company’s partner ecosystem expansion, with the business looking to open up access to financial institutions, telecom and cloud operators, and other enterprises.

Alongside the new hire is Ashutosh Sharma, who leads the company’s growing engineering team in India. Sharma is a veteran networking executive with over 25 years of industry experience from companies like Citrix, Cisco, and Motorola.

“India is leading in the global AI revolution both as an innovation hub as well as a consumer of AI, with unparalleled market potential,” said Shekar Ayyar, Arrcus’s CEO. “By expanding our in-country workforce and leadership as well as deepening our local partnerships, Arrcus’ networking solutions are now the best choice for Indian customers as an alternative to incumbent providers like Cisco, Arista, and HPE-Juniper.”

Arrcus was founded in 2016 and has gone on to raise tens of millions of dollars from backers including Hitachi Ventures, Lightspeed, and General Catalyst.

Nvidia is also backing the networking firm, with the pair working on extending AI data center architectures to distributed configurations. Arrcus’ ACE networking platform already uses Nvidia’s BlueField platform to help enterprise customers offload and accelerate compute-intensive networking applications.