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Integrity is the only thing you take with you
An RFP had come in from a very large potential client. The RFP had some difficult technical requirements, and the company's products did not meet the specifications. The development team…
ROADMs versus OADM
A recent post on LinkedIn asked members of an optical communications group "what are the advantages of ROADM over fixed OADM". I have seen network providers purchase expensive ROADM networks when…
Learn from the Best and from the Worst
In my annual lectures to students at Georgia Tech, I spend a lot of the time telling stories about managers and co-workers with which I have worked. Stories have a…
Problem Solving, It’s Not Just for Final Exams
Once a year, I deliver a presentation to seniors and graduate students at Georgia Tech entitled, "Beyond Engineering: Management and Sales with an Engineering Degree." As I tell the students,…
WDM: It’s Virtual Fiber for Data Centers
We had been called in by a storage vendor to talk with their customer about data center interconnect. The customer, a large financial company, was building a redundant data center…