…critical network failures at worst,” said Ciena’s Kim Roberts.  Kim is Ciena’s senior director of signal processing, and a legend in the industry with 106 patents related to optical technology.  I recently talked to Kim in order to better understand the details behind the issue…

…:30pm PST | 403B Joe Berthold, Vice President, Network Architecture Core Network Architectures in 2020 Monday, March 5, 8:00-11:00am PST | 403B Kim Roberts, Senior Director, Systems Engineering Core Router Bypass: via ROADM, OTN, Ethernet, MPLS or not at all? Monday, March 5, 8:00-11:00am PST | 408B…

…External Research, will present on  “Advances in High-Performance Research Networks” on November 15 at 2:30 p.m. in WSCC 611/612. * Kim Roberts, Senior Director of Optical Signal Processing, will speak on a panel titled, “Terabit Networks: Opportunities and Challenges in Extreme-Scale…

…customer count for 100G ("more than a dozen"), 40G (75), and 5400 (six).   4.) Kim Roberts talked about the issue of Coherent Cycle Slips By far the most popular blog post from June was our discussion with Kim Roberts on the topic of Coherent Cycle Slips, an issue that can seriously hamper optical…

…External Research, 2:30pm Nov 15 in WSCC 611/612 * Terabit Networks: Opportunities and Challenges in Extreme-Scale Science and Massive Data Movement, Kim Roberts, Sr. Director Optical Signal Processing, 12:15pm, Nov 17 in TTC LL3 Booth demonstrations: More than just PowerPoint With the massive SCinet network…

…technology is created equal Our most controversial post of the year was one that focused on the red hot area of coherent 100G technology.  Kim Roberts, Ciena?s resident optical guru and a legend in the industry, helped co-write this post highlighting the issue of cycle slips.  Cycle slips originate…