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Pat Chou

Product Manager

Service Provider - Transceiver Modules Group

Since 2012, Pat Chou has been a Product Manager in Cisco’s Transceiver Modules Group, where he manages pluggable optic transceivers for use in data centers, campus networks, and service provider networks. Prior to joining Cisco he held positions in sales, marketing, and R&D at optical technology leaders Bell Laboratories (now Nokia), JDSU (now Lumentum), and optical technology startups AOptix, Phaethon, and AiDi.

Pat received his PhD and Bachelor’s Degree from MIT, and a Master’s Degree from the University of Southern California, all in electrical engineering. He’s back in school again, sort of, studying improv and sketch comedy at The Groundlings and The Upright Citizens Brigade.

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Optics for hyperscale data centers (Part 3 of 4): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 27 notes

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Join us for Episode 27 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue a second conversation with Ron Horan, who runs Product Management for the Cisco Client Optics Group.

Optics for hyperscale data centers (Part 2 of 4): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 26 notes

1 min read

Join us for Episode 26 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue a second conversation with Ron Horan, who runs Product Management for the Cisco Client Optics Group.

Today’s high speed optical links would fail if not for this technology (Part 2)

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Learn about the technology that enables the latest high speed pluggable optics. In part two of this two-part blog post, we discuss the trade-offs and performance impact of forward error correction (FEC) on the network.

Today’s high speed optical links would fail if not for this technology (Part 1)

3 min read

Learn about the technology that enables the latest high speed pluggable optics. In part one of this two-part blog post, we will review the basics of forward error correction (FEC).

Optics for hyperscale data centers (Part 1 of 4): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 25 notes

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Join us for Episode 25 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we begin a second conversation with Ron Horan, who runs Product Management for the Cisco Client Optics Group.

How to Make Coherent Optics Small and Pluggable (Part 5 of 5): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 24 notes

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Join us for Episode 24 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue our conversation with Tom Williams, Director of Technical Marketing in the Cisco group that came to us through the Acacia acquisition.

How to Make Coherent Optics Small and Pluggable (Part 4 of 5): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 23 notes

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Join us for Episode 23 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue our conversation with Tom Williams, Director of Technical Marketing in the Cisco group that came to us through the Acacia acquisition.

How to Make Coherent Optics Small and Pluggable (Part 3 of 5): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 22 notes

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Join us for Episode 22 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue our conversation with Tom Williams, Director of Technical Marketing in the Cisco group that came to us through the Acacia acquisition.

How to Make Coherent Optics Small and Pluggable (Part 2 of 5): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 21 notes

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Join us for Episode 21 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue our conversation with Tom Williams, Director of Technical Marketing in the Cisco group that came to us through the Acacia acquisition.

How to Make Coherent Optics Small and Pluggable (Part 1 of 5): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 20 notes

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Join us for Episode 20 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we begin a new conversation with Tom Williams, Director of Technical Marketing in the Cisco group that came to us through the Acacia acquisition.

February 23, 2022

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Silicon photonics explained (Part 5 of 5): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 19 notes

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Join us for Episode 19 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we conclude a conversation with Ron Horan, who runs Product Management for the Cisco Client Optics Group.

February 9, 2022

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Silicon photonics explained (Part 4 of 5): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 18 notes

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Join us for Episode 18 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue a conversation with Ron Horan, who runs Product Management for the Cisco Client Optics Group.

January 27, 2022

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Silicon photonics explained (Part 3 of 5): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 17 notes

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Join us for Episode 17 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue a conversation with Ron Horan, who runs Product Management for the Cisco Client Optics Group.

November 16, 2021

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Silicon photonics explained (Part 2 of 5): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 16 notes

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Join us for Episode 16 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we begin a new conversation with Ron Horan, who runs Product Management for the Cisco Client Optics Group.