Session Description:
The OIF released the 400ZR Implementation Agreement in March’2020 and wide-scale deployment is well underway for this new interoperable coherent standard. In this panel session by OIF industry experts we’ll give an overview of 400ZR, including ongoing maintenance, and highlight its deployment status, networking topologies, and use cases. The panel will then give an overview of current 800ZR and 800LR technical work including technical challenges and insights on where the options of DWDM and unamplified versions could be deployed and the trade-offs to be made. Is this the point where coherent networking does come into the data center?
Moderator:
Richard Ward, Engineering R&D, Intel; Market Awareness & Education Committee Co-Chair, Physical & Link Layer, OIF, USA
Panelists:
Tom Williams, Sr. Director of Marketing, Cisco, USA
Ian Betty, Sr. Director, Coherent Modem Development Team, Ciena, Canada
Josef Berger, Associate VP Marketing, Marvell Technology, USA
Mark Filer, Optical Network Architect, Google; OIF, VP and Board Member, USA
Biographies:
Joseph Berger, Associate VP Marketing, Marvell Technology, USA
Josef Berger has more than 20 years of experience in high-speed optics. Mr. Berger is the Associate Vice President Marketing, Optical Interconnect at Inphi, focused on next generation data center interconnect solutions. Prior to joining Inphi, he was the Chief Commercial Officer at Optical Zonu, an analog fiberoptic systems company, developing wireless solutions for US carriers and government agencies. Prior to that, Mr. Berger was at Source Photonics serving as its Vice President of Global Sales, Marketing and Business Development. Subsequently he was Director of Product Marketing at Opnext, which later merged with Oclaro. He holds a B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Applied Sciences Munich and a M.S. degree in Physics from San Diego State University. Josef is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School.
Ian Betty, Sr. Director, Coherent Modem Development Team, Ciena, Germany
Ian is a Senior Director in the Coherent Modem Development Team at Ciena, and he has been involved in all of Ciena’s WaveLogic coherent modem product introductions during his 14-year tenure. He is a Ciena Distinguished Engineer and has been active at the OIF since 2007. Ian served on the OIF Board of Directors 2016-2021 and served as OIF President October 2020-2021. For 10 years, prior to joining Ciena, Ian guided InP Mach-Zehnder modulator component development at Bookham and Nortel, to commercial success. Ian has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Waterloo, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University, more than 25 publications and invited talks, and he holds 17 patents.
Mark Filer, Optical Network Architect, Google; OIF, VP and Board Member, USA
Mark works at Google as Optical Network Architect, focusing on campus, metro DCI, and wide-area network optical solutions, and next-gen datacenter network architectures. Prior to joining Google, Mark spent 7 years in Microsoft Azure HW and Networking orgs in Redmond, WA, and 14 years in optical R&D at ADVA Optical Networking in Atlanta, GA. He has numerous publications and patents in the areas of cloud-scale open line systems, long-haul transmission, ROADM network architectures, and DWDM system impairments. He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. Mark currently serves on the OIF Board of Directors as Vice President.
Richard Ward, Engineering R&D, Intel; Market Awareness & Education Committee Co-Chair, Physical & Link Layer, OIF, USA
Richard has 30 years’ experience in the IC industry and is currently in Intel's Silicon Photonics Products Division working on high speed components for optical modules and co-packaged optics. He is an editor in the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) for the 3.2Tb/s Co-Packaged Optical Transceiver for ethernet applications, and the High Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulator (HB-CDM) for coherent systems to 128Gbd. Previously to Intel, Richard was Senior Director in Optical Interconnect at Inphi working on Coherent systems components and has a Serdes circuit design background with Texas Instruments, and holds various patents on high performance circuit techniques.
Tom Williams, Sr. Director of Marketing, Cisco, USA
Since 2015, Tom has been responsible for global marketing activities for Acacia Communications, now a part of Cisco Systems. Prior to Acacia, Tom spent 14 years at Optium and Finisar Corporations, where he held various management roles, including Director of Product Line Management for high speed (>100G) transmission products. Tom has also held positions at Lucent Technologies and Northrop Grumman Corporation. He has an MS in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Widener University.
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