Andreas Bechtolsheim
Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim is Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Arista Networks. He is responsible for advanced AI, silicon and optics initiatives. Previously Andy was a Co-Founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems, responsible for next generation server, storage, and network architectures. He has been a founding member of the Open Compute Project (OCP) Board of Directors since 2011.
Andy received a M.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976 and was a doctoral student in Computer Engineering at Stanford University from 1977 to 1982. He has been honored with a Fulbright scholarship, the Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year award, the Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation, the EY 2015 US Entrepreneur of the Year Award (together with Jayshree Ullal) and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Session
The extreme bandwidth demands of AI data centers are accelerating the development of new optics that are denser, more reliable, and more power efficient than the previous optics roadmap. This talk will cover the AI optics roadmaps across the scale-up, scale-out and scale-across spectrum, and the implications for next generation switches, routers and optical line systems.