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OFC Preview: Visit Finisar booth #1613

Now in its 18th year, the OFC/NFOEC exhibition and conference is happening next week, March 21-25, in sunny San Diego, CA. Finisar is a long time veteran of the show, having attended since its inception in 1995. We pride ourselves on being an innovator and market leader in the optical communications industry, and we look forward to showcasing our latest technology advancements at the show every year. Stay tuned for an update early next week on what we’re highlighting this year.

We will also have several Finisar representatives speaking at the event:

• In a panel led by moderator Stephen Hardy, Finisar’s Executive Chairman of the Board, Jerry Rawls, will join a panel of experts for the session “Components and Subsystems for 40 and 100 Gbps” at the OSA/Lightwave Executive Forum.
• Daniel Mahgerefteh, Director of Advanced Technology at Finisar, will speak on panel, “Does Optical Dispersion Compensation Have a Future?”
• Simon Poole, Director of New Business Ventures for Finisar Australia, will speak on panel, “How Can We Groom and Multiplex Data for Ultra-High-Speed Transmission?”
• Chris Cole, Director of Engineering at Finisar, will speak on panel, “1 TbE Transport – Why, When and How?”
• Katharine Schmidtke, Strategic Marketing Manager at Finisar, will present her paper, “Trends and Future Directions for Optical Interconnects in Datacenter and Computer Applications.”

We look forward to seeing you at the show!

Trivia Question #5 Winner

Answer: Intel has 100,000 servers housed in 96 datacenters around the globe.

And the winner of the Finisar t-shirt for our final trivia question is: Gert Sarlet. Good job Gert! We will send you a Finisar t-shirt.

I wish to thank everyone for celebrating our first year of Lightspeed by playing our fiber optic blog trivia contest. Please continue to join the discussion on the Lightspeed blog.

Trivia Question #5

Our final trivia question: Which U.S. company has the largest reported number of web servers?

Provide your answer using the blog commenting tool (only one answer allowed per person/previous winners excluded). There will be a slight delay before your response is posted. Check back in a few days for the winning name.

Thanks for playing!

Trivia Question #4 Winner

Answer: The Top500 Project

The winner of our fourth trivia question is Yuko Kimma. Yuko, great job! You will receive a Finisar t-shirt.

Stay tuned for our final trivia question later today and your chance to win a Finisar t-shirt. Don’t forget that all submissions are entered into a final grand prize drawing for a Pico Projector featuring LCoS technology. The winning name will be announced on the Lightspeed blog during the last week of March.