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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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September 14, 2021

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How to Go Beyond Optics Standards and Reach 25km

The secret behind the 100G ER-Lite's superior optical performance.

September 8, 2021

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Demystifying Fiber Cable Infrastructure, with Brian Kelly (Part 4 of 6): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 12 Notes

Join us for Episode 12 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue a conversation with Brian Kelly of Panduit.

August 25, 2021

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Demystifying Fiber Cable Infrastructure, with Brian Kelly (Part 3 of 6): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 11 Notes

Join us for Episode 11 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue a conversation with Brian Kelly of Panduit.

August 19, 2021

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Demystifying Fiber Cable Infrastructure, with Brian Kelly (Part 2 of 6): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 10 Notes

Join us for Episode 10 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue a conversation with Brian Kelly of Panduit.

August 5, 2021

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Happy to go beyond standards again with the 25km ER-Lite 100G optic

We rounded out Cisco's Single-Lambda 100G series of QSFP28 optics with the 25km reach ER-Lite.

July 30, 2021

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Demystifying Fiber Cable Infrastructure, with Brian Kelly (Part 1 of 6): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 9 Notes

Join us for Episode 9 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we begin a new conversation with Brian Kelly of Panduit.

July 28, 2021

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Overcoming the next hurdle to get to 800G pluggable optics (Part 4 of 4): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 8 notes

Join us for Episode 8 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we conclude a conversation with Dr. Mark Nowell, Cisco Fellow in Cisco’s Optics and Optical Systems Group.

July 6, 2021

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Overcoming the next hurdle to get to 800G pluggable optics (Part 3 of 4): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 7 notes

Join us for Episode 7 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue a conversation with Dr. Mark Nowell, Cisco Fellow in Cisco’s Optics and Optical Systems Group.

June 15, 2021

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Overcoming the next hurdle to get to 800G pluggable optics (Part 2 of 4): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 6 notes

Join us for Episode 6 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue a conversation with Dr. Mark Nowell, Cisco Fellow in in Cisco’s Optics and Optical Systems Group.