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Media Contacts:
CALIENT Technologies
Jill Budzynski / Tina Tan
763-548-8208
ttan@marketready.com
Media Alert: CALIENT Technologies to Speak at OFC 2003
San Jose, Calif., March 20, 2003 – CALIENT Technologies,
a leading global provider of intelligent all-optical switching systems and
software, has been invited to speak at the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC)
conference and exhibit, http://www.ofcconference.com/splash.cfm at
the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia from March 23-28, 2003.
Dr. John Bowers, CALIENT Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder, and Professor and Director of the Multidisciplinary Optical Switching Technology Center, University of California Santa Barbara; and Dr. Dan Blumenthal, CALIENT Director of Advanced Network Technologies and Co-founder, and Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara will be participating in several short courses, workshops and sessions.
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Sunday, March 23, 8:30 - 11:30am |
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Monday, March 24, 8:30 - 11:30am |
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Short Course: SC 103, Fast Reconfigurable WDM Optical Networks
This course provides an overview of fast reconfigurable WDM optical networks, optical protocols, functional building blocks and component technology. Emphasis will be placed on architectures and techniques that support reconfigurability, fast routing and optical packet switching. |
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Room C201 |
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Dr. Dan Blumenthal |
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Monday, March 24, 1:30 - 4:30pm |
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Short Course: Session SC 177, High-speed Semiconductor Lasers and Modulators
This course reviews the basics concepts of optical modulators, with emphasis on electroabsorption modulators. The fundamental physics and design of modulators will be reviewed. |
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Room 302 |
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Dr. John Bowers |
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Monday, March 24, 1:30 – 4:30pm |
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Workshop: Need for Optical Performance Monitoring
This workshop will evaluate what level of optical performance monitoring is valued in today’s networks and which advances in optical networking will drive higher levels of OPM. |
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Room B312-B313A |
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Dr. Dan Blumenthal |
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Wednesday, March 26, 3 - 5pm |
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Market Watch: Business and Technology Series, Tunability in the Network
This session will discuss the commercial related issues to tunability and dynamic reconfiguration in optical transport networks, applications and advantages of tunability and issues related to deploying tunability. Topics include dynamic wavelength management, dynamic reconfiguration in all-optical networks, and wavelength tunability. |
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Room C307 |
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Dr. Dan Blumenthal and Dr. John Bowers |
About CALIENT Technologies
CALIENT Technologies is a leading provider of intelligent all-optical switching systems and GMPLS networking software that help service providers reduce the cost of scaling their optical network infrastructure. CALIENT’s DiamondWave™ switching system and GMPLS-powered networking innovations provide a seamless migration path that is non-disruptive to legacy operations, highly cost-effective, and an enabler to revenue-generating optical services. CALIENT is shipping its DiamondWave systems in configurations ranging from 32x32 to 256x256 to carrier networks worldwide. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California. Additional engineering and manufacturing operations are located in Santa Barbara, California, while MEMS design and fabrication operations are located in Ithaca, New York. For additional information about CALIENT, visit www.calient.net.
CALIENT Technologies, the CALIENT Technologies logo, and DiamondWave are trademarks of CALIENT Technologies, Inc.
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