From LinkedIn José Pozo chairperson Optica meeting Sunnyvale
“WE'VE STARTED OUR MEETING OF THE MINDS. Optica has arrived in Sunnyvale, which calls itself the “heart of Silicon Valley”, though most people recall that Atari started the video game industry here. Today, the innovation is being driven by other famous names close by. Within a 7-dollar Uber ride you can get to the offices of Google, AI at Meta , Microsoft, AMD, Honeywell, Yahoo (yes they still exist), as do Juniper Networks, where I am parked now.
You might say that all these companies have one thing in common. They became successful because of fast communication. But that was before AI arrived, putting huge bandwidth and energy demands on servers everywhere. To cope with the tremendous load that apps like #ChatGPT bring to the IT world, we need ultra-fast interconnects in data centres between 1.6Tb/s up to 3.2Tb/s combined with very low power consumption.
So when will current optics technology catch up to match these kinds of numbers and how do we solve latency issues?
We should know more about possible solutions in the next 48 hours. Because over 200 of the world's top executives have flown in to be here (some by private jet!). By having so many decision-makers in one room and switching off the cameras, we can ask the crucial questions that need to be asked.
The secret that I’ve learned about Silicon Valley is that innovation needs two things. The money of large corporations and the disruptive technology and vision from small companies. So, for the second year in a row, we’re organising the Photonic Enables Cloud Computing Industry Summit. Last year at DuPont. This year, here at Juniper Networks. And once again, we’ll democratise the discussion. So we put the big corporations of Arista Networks, Cisco and Google alongside brilliant small enterprises like ficonTEC Service GmbH, Astrape Networks, Lightwave Logic, Inc., and iPronics Programmable Photonics. You’re right….let’s stop with the lists and get ready for some amazing conversations….to be continued……”
