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

MW Panel IV: Inside Data Centers: Pluggable Optics Evolution

Wednesday, 02 April, 14:15 – 15:45

Theater I

Session Description
With the arrival of the compute-com big wave, networking infrastructure inside data centers is experiencing accelerated generational evolution. Emerging linear pluggable optics, available high-speed 200GSerdes and maturing 200G/lane optical modulation continue to extend the preference and dominance of pluggable optics despite non-stop R&D advances of co-packaged and in-package optics. This panel will discuss the latest technological progress of pluggable optics and once again revisit the inevitable topic of pluggable optics vs. co-packaged optics.

Organizer

Di Liang, Professor, University of Michigan, United States

Panelists

Andy Bechtolsheim, Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Arista Networks, United States

Vipul Bhatt, VP Marketing, Datacom Vertical, Coherent, United States

Janet Chen, Director of Silicon Photonics Development, Nvidia, United States

Hong Liu, Principal Engineer, Google, United States

Zhiping Yao, Principal Engineer/Senior Director, Alibaba, United States

Ryan Yu, Vice President, Marketing, TeraHop, United States