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Infinera at OFC 2021

Open Your Network to What's Possible

Join Infinera at OFC 2021 as we showcase the latest advancements in optical networking, from industry-leading open optical solutions that enable network operators to accelerate innovation and break free of vendor lock-in to next-generation pluggables that seamlessly address point-to-point and point-to-multipoint transport applications from the network edge to the core. Keep reading to find out more about our participation in this year’s virtual event.

Infinera at OFC – Speakers and Presenters

Below is a list of Infinera thought leaders addressing a broad range of industry trends and technologies at the OFC 2021 conference. Infinera’s David Heard, Dave Welch and Tim Doiron are also featured as part of the OSA 2021 OIDA Executive Forum. Learn more.

Sunday, June 6, 2021

5:00 a.m. -
7:30 a.m. PDT
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Speaker

Cognitive Network Automation: How Smart Can Optical Transport Networks Be?

Harald Bock — Vice President, Network and Technology Strategy
5:00 a.m. -
7:30 a.m. PDT
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Organizer

Will Multiband, Multidimensional, SDM Effectively Address the Need for Increased Network Capacity?

Antonio Napoli — Project Coordinator and Leader, Advanced Research Topics, OIF Representative
8:00 a.m. -
10:30 a.m. PDT
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Speaker

Pluggable Coherent Technologies and Applications

Dave Welch — Founder, Chief Innovation Officer

Monday, June 7, 2021

5:00 a.m. -
7:00 a.m. PDT
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Presenter

Adaptive Telemetry with Microservices and SONiC

Abhinava Sadasivarao — Principal Engineer, Systems Architecture
10:00 a.m. -
10:15 a.m. PDT
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1:00 p.m -
2:00 p.m. PDT
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Presenter

Performance Oriented DSP Design for Flexible Coherent Transmission for Data Center Networks

Han Henry Sun — Infinera Fellow, Coherent Technologies
3:00 p.m -
7:00 p.m. PDT
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Short Course

Digital Signal Processing for Coherent Optical Transceivers

Chris Fludger — Head of DSP Development

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

10:30 a.m. -
12:00 p.m. PDT
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Moderator

Panel I: State of the Industry

Tim Doiron — Sr. Director, Solution Marketing
10:30 a.m. -
11:00 a.m. PDT
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Speaker

XR Optics – Applications and Network Benefits

Dave Welch — Founder, Chief Innovation Officer
11:45 a.m. -
1:45 p.m. PDT
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Moderator

Data Center Summit

Loukas Paraschis — Sr. Managing Director, Internet and Cloud Networks
2:00 p.m. -
4:00 p.m. PDT
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2:30 p.m. -
4:00 p.m. PDT
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Speaker

Panel III: Terabit WDM Channels: Beyond 100 GBaud Operation

Robert Maher — Sr. Principal Engineer
6:00 p.m. -
6:15 p.m. PDT
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Wedenesday, June 9, 2021

8:00 a.m. -
10:00 a.m. PDT
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Organizer

Lessons Learned: Networks 2020 Status and Next Steps

Loukas Paraschis — Sr. Managing Director, Internet and Cloud Networks
10:15 a.m. -
10:45 a.m. PDT
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Moderator

Network Operator Summit

Loukas Paraschis — Sr. Managing Director, Internet and Cloud Networks
10:30 a.m. -
11:00 a.m. PDT
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Speaker

Optical Engines Evolution – 100 Gbaud and Beyond

Steve Sanders — VP, Optical Architecture

Thursday, June 10, 2021

11:00 a.m. -
12:00 p.m. PDT
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Presenter

Cloud Network Evolution Bandwidth Drivers

Loukas Paraschis — Sr. Managing Director, Internet and Cloud Networks

Friday, June 11, 2021

6:00 a.m. -
6:30 a.m. PDT
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Presenter

High-Performance 100 Gbaud Coherent Photonic Modules

Mehrdad Ziari — Vice President, Hardware
11:00 a.m. -
11:15 a.m. PDT
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Presenter

Next Generation Field Trials and Standardization

Marc Stephens — Director, Systems Engineering
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