Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Tue, March 24, 2009
Mon, March 23, 2009
Infinera: Infinera to Discuss PICs, Award Student Prize at OFC
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - March 23, 2009) - Infinera (
Infinera will also be awarding the first Infinera Outstanding Student Recognition Prize at OFC. This prize, funded by Infinera and awarded in partnership with the OSA Foundation, recognizes outstanding optical communications research in the area of optoelectronic devices and photonics integration. Infinera is launching this annual prize to support research and innovation in the optical communications industry and to continue the industry's outstanding record of performance improvement which has played an important role in the growing contribution technology makes to our economy and our daily life.
Highlights of Infinera events at the show include:
-- Infinera Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer Dave Welch will speak at an Executive Forum session on Monday, March 23rd at 9:30 am PT on "Successful Strategies for Supporting Bandwidth-Intensive Applications." -- On Tuesday, March 24th at 3:00 pm PT, Infinera Fellow Steve Grubb will speak on recent developments in Infinera technology in a Market Watch panel entitled "More Wavelengths, Higher Bit Rates, More Spectrum." Dr. Grubb will discuss results of an innovative demonstration in which the Infinera DTN successfully transmitted data for 4000 kilometers on a subsea network. For further information, see today's related news release, Infinera System Sends Data 4,000 KM Over Subsea Network. -- On Wednesday, March 25th at 12 noon PT, Infinera Director of Technical Marketing Vijay Vusirikala will moderate a Market Watch panel on the theme "Photonic Integration: Mainstream at Last?" Infinera's Dave Welch will represent Infinera on the panel. -- On Thursday, March 26th at 1:15 pm PT, member of the Infinera PIC team Mehrdad Ziari will present a paper on integration and high-speed operation with 400 Gb/s photonic integrated circuits using the RZ-DQPSK modulation format. For further information on Infinera's 400 Gb/s PICs, please see today's related news release, "Infinera's 400 Gb/s PIC Sets New Record for Integration." -- On Thursday, March 26th at 3:50 pm PT, as part of a session on IP over DWDM, Infinera Vice President of Technical Marketing Serge Melle will deliver a presentation titled "Alien Wavelength Transport: An Operational and Economic Analysis."
"As these talks will demonstrate, Infinera continues to make significant progress in development work at the component, system, and application level in optical networking," commented Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh. "We have established the Infinera Student Prize because we believe that research -- and the commitment to bold innovation -- is absolutely essential to our industry."
The OFC/NFOEC conference begins Monday, March 23rd and runs through Thursday March 26th at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Customers and other visitors are invited to set up meetings by contacting your Infinera representative or the Infinera contacts listed below.
About Infinera
Infinera provides Digital Optical Networking systems to telecommunications carriers worldwide. Infinera's systems are unique in their use of a breakthrough semiconductor technology: the photonic integrated circuit (PIC). Infinera's systems and PIC technology are designed to provide optical networks with simpler and more flexible engineering and operations, faster time-to-service, and the ability to rapidly deliver differentiated services without reengineering their optical infrastructure. For more information, please visit [ www.infinera.com ].
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