Anthony Torza is a Distinguished Hardware Engineer in Cisco’s Common Hardware Group. He joined Cisco in early 2020 after 20+ years working in compute and high speed networking semiconductors at companies like Xilinx (now AMD) and Ciena. Today, Anthony focuses on system architecture across Cisco’s Switching and Routing portfolio to identify technology and market transitions and ensure that our products meet our customers’ insatiable demands. Anthony works with external suppliers, the ASIC organizations, the HW organizations and the SW organizations to realize next generation products to optimize across company, organizational and technology boundaries.