Archived Presentation
“Redefining the Optical Component Industry”
Jim Hjartarson, CEO, OneChip Photonics
Feb. 16, 2010, meeting of the Ottawa Photonics Cluster
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Date: |
Tuesday February 16, 2010 |
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Time: |
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
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Location: |
Nepean Sailing Club, Dick Bell Park, 3259 Carling Ave, Ottawa |
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Registration: |
No-charge but RSVP to hhammond@ocri.ca |
This presentation will discuss why OneChip’s new, fully integrated optical transceiver technology is needed to remove the cost and performance barriers that have been impeding the widespread deployment of Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) and to enable new business and consumer broadband applications. OneChip’s breakthrough approach and technology will give System Builders and Service Providers the ability to significantly lower the cost and boost the performance of their FTTH networks, while meeting business and consumer demand for high-bandwidth voice, data and video services.
OneChip’s presentation will highlight how current transceiver designs – Discrete and Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC)-based – offer low levels of integration and require manual assembly from multiple parts, which limits their cost-effectiveness, performance and quality. It will discuss how breaking the current cost/performance barrier will require new, fully integrated Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC)-based transceivers, which offer a wide array of technical and economic advantages. Lastly, the presentation will cover how the cost and performance advantages of fully integrated, PIC-based transceivers will become even more distinct in 10 Gigabit-per-second (10 Gbps) Passive Optical Networks (PONs).
Speaker Bio:
Jim is a seasoned telecommunications industry veteran with 28 years of industry experience. Most recently, he was a co-founder and CEO of Catena Networks, later acquired by CIENA Corporation, where he was SVP of the Broadband Access Group. Previously, Jim was co-founder and VP of the Telecommunications Design Centre at Cadence Design Systems. Before then, he served as Director of Access Peripheral Design at Nortel Networks.
