Patricia Bower

Senior Manager, Portfolio Marketing

Patricia Bower

Senior Manager, Portfolio Marketing

Patricia Bower is a senior Marketing strategist and product manager with over 10 years of experience in coherent optical DSP chip technologies and over 15 years in semiconductor system-on-chip products for wireless and wireline communications applications. She also has a background in communications systems and process engineering and is currently part of the Ciena optical portfolio Marketing team.

You can find her on Twitter at @Trish_Bower or on LinkedIn.

Insights from Patricia Bower

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What is ZR+?

ZR+ means different things to different people. Learn about the wide range of different solutions encompassed by the generic term “ZR+”, the industry standards and MSAs driving their development, and additional coherent pluggable capabilities

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Preparing coherent pluggables for prime time: practical deployment considerations

Through continued innovation, the use of coherent optical technology has expanded to support new networking applications and in new ways with coherent pluggable modules. Ciena’s Patricia Bower explains features, design challenges and

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Designing for programmable infrastructures – advancements in electro-optic components

In this article, Patricia Bower reviews the advances made in electro-optical component design, the other critical constituent of a coherent optical modem enabling programmable infrastructures.

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Building the Adaptive Network – starting with silicon

Patricia Bower explores coherent DSP design - one of the primary tools network equipment designers have in order to enable programmability and flexibility - and its significance for network transformations.

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Photonic integration and co-packaging: Design tools for footprint optimization in data center networks

Photonic integration and co-packaging are related approaches to addressing area and power challenges for networking applications. Patricia Bower explains how these component-level design options will enable future footprint-optimized solutions for

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Pluggables: Their role in coherent technology evolution

For specific applications like single-span point-to-point links there is a growing need to take advantage of the benefits of coherent technology but in smaller, dedicated and pluggable forms.Ciena’s Patricia Bower explores this branch of coherent