In this episode, Stephen Alexander, CTO at Ciena and Mattias Fridström discuss how the optical networking industry has developed over the last decades, trends in enterprise networking such as the increased demand for raw bandwidth, the global component shortages, and the pandemic’s impact on network design.
Stephen Alexander is currently Ciena’s Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. From 1982 until joining Ciena in 1994, he was Assistant Leader of the Optical Communications Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He is an IEEE Fellow and is a recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Industrial Innovation Award. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Telecom Industry Solutions (ATIS). He has served as a member of the FCC Technological Advisory Council and is Chairman of the Long-range Planning committee for the Conference on Optical Fiber Communication (OFC.) Mr. Alexander is an Electrical Engineering graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been granted 23 patents and has authored a text on Optical Communication Receiver Design as well as numerous conference presentations and journal articles.
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