Panel: Industrial Leaders Forum

Summary form only given, as follows. A record of the panel discussion was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings. Hot Interconnects comes to Wall Street where the bulls and bears of industry debate the value proposition of emerging low-cost optical networks. We've assembled a cross-section of industry, from optical components to systems and applications, to explore bottlenecks and bandwidth requirements, to discuss which metrics are most relevant for making engineering tradeoffs in real-world applications and which are the most appropriate optimization criteria. How do these tradeoffs differ for cluster networks up to, say, 100k nodes, versus wide area networks that span continents? These and other intriguing questions will be addressed. We will hear from industry experts how emerging optical technology is changing the landscape of networking. From active optical transceivers to dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM), this group of industry leaders will help connect the dots and provide practical insight along the way.