Tips on how to Make Coherent Optics Small and Pluggable: Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 20 notes

Episode 20 of the Cisco Optics Podcast is now posted! See beneath for episode notes.

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Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 20

Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 20. Tips on how to Make Coherent Optics Small and Pluggable, with Tom Williams. Half 1 of 5.

Coherent optics have been the go-to answer for high-end optical transport methods for years. Finally these optics have been modularized and with current advances in DSP design and optics manufacturing, this expertise is now out there in small type issue pluggable modules. Cisco acknowledged the significance of this expertise and bought the trade’s chief on this house, Acacia Communications in March of 2021. In Episode 20, we begin a brand new dialog with Tom Williams, Director of Technical Advertising, who joined Cisco through the Acacia acquisition. We start our dialog with Tom’s background and the kinds of issues they solved at Acacia.
– Pat Chou, Cisco Optics Product Supervisor

Tom Williams leads advertising efforts for the Acacia coherent optics staff that was acquired by Cisco in March 2021. Tom has spent over 20 years growing optical transmission tools starting from 10G to 1.2T. He participates in quite a lot of coherent standardization actions in OIF, IEEE and Open ROADM and is co-chair of the OpenZR+ MSA. Tom spent practically 15 years in numerous administration roles at Optium, the place he participated within the firm’s 2006 IPO and 2008 acquisition by Finisar. Tom joined Acacia in 2015, the place his position has included company and product advertising duty, in addition to contributing to product roadmap definitions.

Associated hyperlinks

Cisco Optics-to-System Compatibility Matrix: https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/
Cisco Optics-to-Optics Interoperability Matrix: https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/iop
Cisco Optics Product Data: https://copi.cisco.com/

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Timestamps

2:28      Optium days
7:15      Finisar acquisition of Optium
10:34    Becoming a member of Acacia
16:05    Drawback fixing

Music credit

Sunny Morning by FSM Crew

Upbeat by Mixaund

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