Vladimir Kozlov
Founder and CEO, LightCounting
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Profile: Vladimir Kozlov is the founder and CEO of LightCounting, which he set up in 2004. By now, LightCounting is the leading market research company covering the global communications industry, including optical and wireless networks. Dr. Kozlov has more than 30 years of experience in optoelectronic technologies and devices, optical communications and market research. Dr. Kozlov held market analyst, product development and research staff positions at RHK Inc., Lucent Technologies and Princeton University. Dr. Kozlov holds several US patents and has numerous publications in the area of optoelectronics. He received M.Sc. at Moscow State University in Russia and Ph.D in Physics at Brown University in the United States.

Profile: Janet Chen is a Technical Sourcing Manager for Fiber Optics at Meta, where she links technology into business value to bring the world closer together. Prior to joining Meta, she has worked as Director of Product Line Management at Neophotonics and as Product Marketing Manager at FOIT. She has also worked as a Research Scientist at HP Labs and NTT Photonics Labs. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara, and B.S. from National Taiwan University. She is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Profile: Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim is Chairman, Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder of Arista Networks. Previously, Andy was a Co-Founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems, responsible for next generation server, storage, and network architectures. Andy received a M.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976 and was a doctoral student in Computer Engineering at Stanford University from 1977 to 1982. He has been honored with a Fulbright scholarship, the Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year award, the Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation, the EY 2015 US Entrepreneur of the Year Award (together with Jayshree Ullal) and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Profile: Jeff Hutchins works for RANOVUS as Director of Optical Technologies in the CTO’s office and has been active in multiple industry-based standards development activities spanning decades. Most recently, he has been active in standardization of co-packaging. He has previously worked for HP, iolon, Intel, CoreOptics, and Cisco.Abstract: There has been a lot of interest in non-retimed links sometimes referred to as “direct drive” or “linear drive” links. This presentation discusses non-retimed links, their use cases, considerations for standardization, and suggests an approach to evaluate their performance and suitability for an application.

Profile: Dr. Man Jiangwei, director of Huawei’s Advanced Opto-Electronics Laboratory, is responsible for researching advanced technologies of optical systems, optical modules, and chips, as well as optoelectronic standards and patents. Dr. Man has led his opto-electronics R&D team to make outstanding contributions to 25 Gbit/s, 50 Gbit/s, 100 Gbit/s, and 400 Gbit/s optical modules/chips, optical transmission system research, and standards research, and is committed to technical research and innovation in various optoelectronic services. Dr. Man obtained a bachelor degree from the School of Physical Sciences of Nankai University and a doctoral degree from the Institute of Semiconductors (IOS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).Abstract: Compared with the traditional pluggable transceiver solution, the linear drive technology shows much potential in future application, and brings much benefit in the power consumption and cost. Meanwhile, the opportunities and challenges for the linear driver technology will also be discussed in this presentation.

Profile: Ryan Latchman holds a B.Eng & Mgmt from McMaster University, an M.Eng from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management. Mr. Latchman is currently VP, High-Performance Connectivity Product Marketing at MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. with a focus on physical layer components used in Datacom and Telecom applications. Mr. Latchman has also contributed to industry standardization efforts in the IEEE, OIF, and Fibre Channel.Abstract: As the optical industry moved from NRZ to PAM-4 and now 100Gb/s per lane, the power consumption associated with retiming within optical modules has increased significantly due to added DSP functionality. At the same time, the capability of end point ASICs has improved to support a wide range of configurations / loss budgets. This dynamic necessitates taking a fresh look at optimal link partitioning to reduce overall power consumption while maintaining overall port flexibility. This presentation will review historical power benchmarks, as well as the benefits for leveraging linear drive technology.

Profile: Frank Chang is an expert in photonic IC technologies, optics transceivers, and optical networking. He is currently Source Photonics’ Chief Engineer for advanced and next-generation transceiver design. Previously he served as a senior Principal Engineer for Optics Interconnect within the CTO Optics Office at Inphi Corporation for over 5 years after over 12 years of service at Vitesse Semiconductors. In addition, he also held various project and management positions with Cisco/Pirelli, and JDS Uniphase, working on the design, development, and commercialization of fiber optics components. Frank is the Chair of Advanced Technology Working Group of IPEC (The International Photonics & Electronics Committee). Frank obtained his Ph.D degree in Optoelectronics from the Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, Canada for his research thesis on ultrafast optical generation of 1550nm tunable solid-state lasers. Besides Frank is senior member of IEEE and OSA Fellow.

Profile: Prior to founding Nubis, Dr. Winzer led Bell Labs’ fiber-optic transmission research, setting multiple high-speed optical transmission records, contributing to product developments and live field trials. He has published over 500 scientific papers, holds over 80 granted patents and is a Bell Labs Fellow, Fellow of the IEEE and Optica, Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and John Tyndall Awardee, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Lightwave Technology, Program Chair of ECOC and Program/General Chair of OFC. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Eindhoven in addition to his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Vienna.Abstract: Today’s high-end switch ASICs generally embed SerDes macros able to drive worst-case electrical channels, which are typically direct-attach cables (DACs), i.e., consist of a first electrical trace from the host ASIC to the front panel, a DAC, and a second electrical trace from the front panel to the host ASIC. If optical modules can be made to “look like copper” in the sense of not being any worse than a DAC, the ASIC-embedded SerDes can equalize the end-to-end electrical-optical-electrical channel without any retimers or Optics DSPs. This approach halves the optical pluggable power consumption. In this talk, we show how Nubis’ optical technology and related system architectures enable linear-drive optical pluggables for 100G and 200G per lane applications.

Profile: Aleksey Tyshchenko is a founder of SeriaLink Systems – a consulting team focusing on system modeling of high-speed serial links, IBIS-AMI modeling, model correlation, and system validation. SeriaLink Systems is working on building a configurable modeling flow to support SerDes projects through their entire life cycles: from architecture definition, through analog and digital design, to design validation. He has been working on behavioral modeling of high-speed SerDes systems, architecture analysis, adaptation, and signal integrity with multi-standard SerDes IP teams at V Semi and Intel. His PhD research at the University of Toronto, Canada, focused on CDR systems for high-speed ADC-based receivers.Abstract: With data rates increasing beyond 100Gb/s, link performance analysis becomes increasingly challenging due to emerging SerDes architectures, channel impairments, cross-talk, and noise. At the same time, adequate link performance analysis is an essential step towards enabling practical communication standards and successful serial link systems. This presentation explores challenges and opportunities for linear transceiver modeling to enable accurate analysis of serial link systems.