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Kobi Hasharoni

A High End Routing Platform for Core and Edge Applications Based on Chip To Chip Optical Interconnect

The bandwidth of core and edge routers is continuously growing as the demand for telecom, datacom and datacenter services is increasing at an annual rate of about 40%. Concurrently, there is also a continuous increase in the power consumption of ICT services which amounts today to about 2% of the total power supply.

In order to reduce power consumption and concurrently provide the required bandwidth out of telecom devices, a transition to photonic-based routers becomes mandatory. In the presentation, we will present the chip to chip interconnection problem and how parallel optical links can solve the problem while reducing the router power, cost and size.

 

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Kobi Hasharoni's Biography 
Kobi is director of electro optics at Compass EOS responsible for the development of an optical interconnect. Before joining Compass he managed the optical communication research activities in several startup companies in Israel. Prior to that, he designed optical inspection tools for the semiconductor industry at Applied Materials.

Kobi has a PhD in chemical physics from the Hebrew university in Jerusalem where he studied electron transfer using spin resonance. He was a post-doctoral researcher at UC Santa Barbara where his research was focused on ultrafast phenomena in conducing polymers.