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    Optical Transceivers in the Age of AI: Impacts, Challenges, and Opportunities

    Feb. 18, 2025
    Join our webinar to explore how AI is transforming optical transceivers, data center networking, and Nvidia's GPU-driven architectures, unlocking new possibilities in speed, performance, and interconnects for the future of high-performance networking.

    February 18, 2025 

    1:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM CT / 10:00 AM PT / 5:00 PM GMT

    Duration: 1 hour 

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    A certificate of attendance will be offered. 

    Summary

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing optical transceivers, driving advancements in speed, latency, performance, form factor, and power consumption. Simultaneously, AI's compute-intensive workloads are reshaping data center networking architectures and traffic patterns.

    This webinar explores the evolution of Nvidia's GPU generations and systems, delves into the networking interfaces of Nvidia DGX platforms, and examines AI data center architectures. Attendees will gain insights into 800G optical transceiver use cases, deployment best practices in data center white space, and data center interconnects (DCIs).

    This session will also address key challenges facing AI-driven optics and highlight the opportunities and trends these advancements present for the future of AI-oriented high-performance networking.

    Speakers

    Frank Yang Senior Product Line Manager Legrand

    Frank Yang 
    Senior Product Line Manager
    Legrand

    Yinglin (Frank) Yang is a senior product line manager at Legrand, where he manages product lines for optical transceivers, direct attach cables, and active optical cables. Before joining Legrand, he worked at CommScope and Dell. Frank has extensive experience in product management, strategic planning, product marketing, and engineering development within the technology industry. His technical expertise spans optics, switching and routing, server networking, and structured cabling. Frank earned his MBA at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. He holds several patents and has authored numerous industry papers. Additionally, he is a certified MEF Carrier Ethernet Certified Professional (MEF-CECP) and a Pragmatic Marketing Certified Product Manager.

    Sean Buckley Editor-in-Chief LIGHTWAVE

    Sean Buckley
    Editor-in-Chief
    LIGHTWAVE 

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