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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Video: New 25G Transceivers Are Taking Off

In this video interview, Craig Pasek explains the latest and greatest in 25G transceivers.

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Cisco Demonstrates 20W+ Power Dissipation of QSFP-DD at OFC 2019

See how this demo proves that the QSFP-DD transceiver form factor can connect distant data centers together with coherent optics.

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Video: Cisco Silicon Photonics for Single-Wavelength 100G

On-camera interview about Cisco's single-wavelength 100G PAM4 technology demo at OFC 2019.

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Announcing the Availability of the Dual-Rate 10/25G Long Reach Transceiver Module

We're excited to release a new addition to our portfolio of dual-rate pluggable transceivers: The 10/25G LR (Long Reach) SFP28 transceiver module, also known as SFP-10/25G-LR-S.