Moderator: Ted Seely, Sprint
Panelists: Drew Perkins,
Infinera; Ross Saunders,
Stratalight; Gary Nicholl, Cisco
Next-generation optical transport technology must cost-effectively scale to
support IP core growth rates ranging from 50-100% CAGR depending on the carrier
network. To support this high growth rate, new approaches to optical transport
technology are being actively pursued to deliver this level of network
scalability at an affordable cost to service and content providers. This panel
will discuss different approaches to solving this challenge, such as the use of
photonic ICs, integration of DWDM into IP routers and the use of advanced
optical modulation schemes.
Link to Gary's
presentation
Link to Drew’s presentation
Link to Ross’s presentation
Bios:
Gary Nicholl is a Senior Technical Lead in the Core Routing business unit at Cisco Systems. He is currently responsible for the definition and development of high speed optical interfaces for the CRS-1 core router, including the recent integration of OTN and DWDM technologies (IPoDWDM). Gary is also leading Cisco's efforts on the definition of next generation 100GE technology, and is an active participant in the IEEE High Speed Study Group (HSSG).
Gary also represents Cisco at various industry standards organizations and industry forums, and in the past has been an active contributor in the development of several 10G and 40G standards in the IEEE, OIF and ITU.
Prior to joining Cisco in 1997, Gary spent 10 years at Nortel Networks in Ottawa, Canada, working in various R&D roles on the development of SONET/SDH transport products.
Gary holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester (UK).
Drew Perkins co-founded and serves as CTO for Infinera. Previously, Mr. Perkins was a founder of and served as the CTO for both OnFiber Communications and Lightera Networks. OnFiber developed some of the worlds largest metro DWDM networks and recently merged with Qwest Communications.
Lightera developed the CoreDirector optical switch and merged with ciena. The CoreDirector is currently deployed at many of the worlds tier 1 carriers. Mr. Perkins has also served as Vice Chairman of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) Technical Committee from its inception through its first year of operation. Mr. Perkins was the principal architect of several TCP/IP, ATM, Ethernet hardware and software products and protocols at FORE Systems, Inc. Throughout his career, Mr. Perkins has participated extensively in standards bodies including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), IEEE, ATM Forum, OIF and ANSI. Mr. Perkins has 25 years of industry involvement and is well known for authoring the PPP Protocol.
Drew earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1986.
Ross Saunders has 15 years experience in development and product management of high speed optical transmission technology. Ross joined StrataLight in August 2003. Prior to joining StrataLight, Ross led Product Management at a ULH start-up company, Ceyba Inc. and Pirelli Optical Systems (purchased by Cisco Systems in 1999). From 1992 thru 1998, Ross worked on OC-192 DWDM system development at Nortel Networks in the UK and Canada, from initial concept through to final product verification. He also worked on advanced research in 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s transmission, optical regeneration and nonlinear fiber optics. Ross graduated from Napier University, Scotland with a B Eng (Hons, 1st class) in Communication and Electronic Engineering, has authored over 80 technical papers and has 16 US patents granted in the field of optical communications.
