Transatlantic Optical Transmission With 16QAM

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Date / Time: Tuesday, November 27, 2018, 12:00 pm New York / 5:00 pm London

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Simon Stanley, Analyst at Large, Heavy Reading

Dr. Jeff Rahn, Distinguished Engineer, Infinera

Dr. Pierre Mertz, Distinguished Engineer, Infinera

Dr. Steve Grubb, Global Optical Architect, Facebook

Subsea transmission capacity is growing at a dramatic rate – with analyst firm Telegeography forecasting a compound growth rate of 46% between 2017 and 2024. Much of this demand is driven by Internet content providers (ICPs). On Transatlantic routes, for example, ICP demand exceeded Internet bandwidth for the first time in 2014, and in 2017, ICP bandwidth accounted for the majority of overall international bandwidth usage.

Extracting the maximum capacity from trans-oceanic cables is, therefore, paramount in importance. This webinar tells the story of the world's first transatlantic transmission using 16QAM modulation across the entire C-Band spectrum, with production equipment and commercial transmission margins.

We look at the following issues:

Why is ICP subsea demand growing so quickly?
What are the technologies used to achieve successful 16QAM transmission over this distance?
How much capacity can we extract from subsea cables, and what is the next miracle technology?

Simon Stanley, Analyst at Large, Heavy Reading
Simon is founder and principal consultant of Earlswood Marketing, an independent market analysis and consulting company based in the U.K. His work has included investment due diligence, market analysis for investors and business/product strategy for semiconductor companies. Simon has written extensively for Heavy Reading and Light Reading, and he authors the bimonthly Heavy Reading Components Insiderresearch newsletter, covering the latest developments in telecom silicon and subsystems. His reports and Webinars cover a variety of communications-related subjects, including LTE, policy management, SDN/NFV, IMS, ATCA, 100/400G optical components, multicore processors, switch chipsets, network processors and optical transport. He has also run several Light Reading events, including Next-Generation Network Components and ATCA. Simon holds a bachelor's degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Brunel University, London.

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Dr. Jeff Rahn, Distinguished Engineer, Infinera
Jeffrey T. Rahn has brought signal processing approaches to the field of optical communications. At Big Bear Networks, he developed electronic dispersion compensation ASICs for 10 GB/s receivers and played a key role in the successful introduction of technology used in 10GBase-LRM. During his 13 years at Infinera, he developed the architecture and led integration of coherent optical systems using photonic integrated circuits. He holds 27 patents.

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Dr. Pierre Mertz, Distinguished Engineer, Infinera
Dr. Mertz is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Infinera developing advanced modulation formats, optics, and software for subsea communications. He previously held positions at Alvesta and in the Communications and Optics Research Lab at Hewlett Packard. Dr. Mertz received his Ph.D from Princeton University and a B.S. from Cornell University. He is an inventor on over 20 patents.

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Dr. Steve Grubb, Global Optical Architect, Facebook
Steve Grubb oversees the build of several new open submarine cable systems and introducing new optical technologies. Prior to Facebook, he was a Fellow at Infinera where he directed work on next-generation Photonic Integrated optical and network technologies. He was responsible for the first commercial introduction of Raman amplifiers in fiber networks. He has held positions at Corvis, SDL and AT&T/Lucent Bell Laboratories. Steve has more than 100 published papers and conference contributions and more than 75 issued US patents.

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