Acacia Communications' Thought Leaders to Present at OFC 2017

MAYNARD, Mass., March 16, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acacia Communications, Inc. ACIA, a leading provider of high-speed coherent optical interconnect products, today announced that its thought leaders will be presenting in conference panels and executive forums at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC), taking place March 19th to  March 23rd, 2017 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Acacia Communications' experts will be on-hand at OFC to discuss and demonstrate the company's products and to lead sessions ranging from a "hackathon" to a short course on how to design silicon photonic integrated circuits.

Speaking Sessions:

Sunday, March 19

  • 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. – Binbin Guan, Optics Engineer is an organizer of the Lab Automation Hackathon
  • 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.  – Chris Doerr, Associate Vice President, Integrated Photonics will present Highly Integrated Monolithic Photonic Integrated Circuits
  • 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. – Benny Mikkelsen, Chief Technology Officer will present c100 Gb/s and Beyond Transmission Systems, Design and Design Trade-offs 
  • 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. – Tom Williams, Senior Director will participate in Scaling Data Center Bandwidth: novel optics, advanced electronics or new architectures?

Monday, March 20

  • 11:15 - 12:30 – Raj Shanmugaraj, President and Chief Executive Officer will present during the Executive Forum
  • 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. – Chris Doerr will present Hands-on: Silicon Photonic Circuits and Systems Design

Tuesday, March 21

  • 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. – Markus Weber, Senior Director, Product Lifecycle Management will participate in the Panel: Coherent Interoperability Beyond QPSK - Is it Needed and What Will it Take? 
  • 14:00 - 17:00 – Tom Williams will participate in Advancing Optical Interoperability in Open Networks

Wednesday, March 22

  • 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. – Tom Williams will present Are Electronic & Optical Components Ready to Support Higher Symbol Rates & Denser Constellations? 

Thursday, March 23

  • 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. – Tom Williams will participate in the Photonic Integration Business Case – Reality Check Market Watch panel
  • 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. – Christian Rasmussen, Cofounder and Vice President, DSP & Optics will present Power Efficient Optics

About Acacia Communications

Acacia Communications develops, manufactures and sells high-speed coherent optical interconnect products that are designed to transform communications networks through improvements in performance, capacity and cost. By leveraging silicon technology to build optical interconnects, a process Acacia refers to as the "siliconization of optical interconnect," Acacia is able to offer products at higher speeds and density with low power consumption, that meet the needs of cloud and service providers and can be easily integrated in a cost effective manner with existing network equipment. www.acacia-inc.com.

For further information:

Investor Relations Contact: 
Monica Gould
Office: (212) 871-3927
Email: IR@acacia-inc.com

Public Relations Contact:
Ed Harrison
Office: (781) 966-4158
Email: acacia-communications@inkhouse.com

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