• Technical Conference:  30 March – 03 April 2025
  • Exhibition: 01 – 03 April 2025
  • Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA

MW Panel III: Optical Modules, Transceivers and Applications

Tuesday, 01 April, 14:15 – 15:45

Theater I

Session Description
Optical modules and pluggable transceivers for the wide area network are evolving rapidly. Embedded coherent modules have moved into the terabit era and beyond. 800G coherent pluggables are breaking capacity-reach boundaries with advanced functionality like PCS. And 100G coherent pluggables with reduced power seek to transform enterprise service delivery. With so much change, what's the right technology today and tomorrow for enterprise connectivity, metro, long-haul, subsea, and data center interconnect networks? Does the network still need modules and pluggables, and if so, where does each fit and why?

Organizer

Tim Doiron, Vice President, Marketing, Infinera, United States

Panelists

Tad Hofmeister, Network Architect, Google, United States

Will Leckie, Director, Optical Engineering, Ciena, United States

Robert Maher, CTO, Subsystems, Infinera, United States

Tom Williams, Director of Technical Marketing, Cisco/Acacia, United States

Ligia Maria Moreira Zorello, Network Engineer, Meta, United Kingdom