In this episode, we talked to two experts who are driving innovation and collaboration in the optical networking industry from the Optical Internetworking Forum:

Nathan Tracy, president of OIF

and

Jeff Hutchins, OIF Secretary/Treasurer & Physical and Link Layer (PLL) Working Group Energy Efficient Interfaces (EEI) Vice Chair (Ranovus)

We talked about OIF's activities during the OFC 2025 tradeshow and its efforts to drive new network collaboration and interoperability among a diverse group of industry players, the AI boom and network management platforms like CMIS.

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