Mellanox Techology LTD
Israel
Mellanox Technologies (MLNX) is a supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox offers a broad portfolio of optical interconnect products (active optical cables, transceivers and mid-board optical modules) including multi-mode and single-mode solutions for various deployment scenarios in different datacenter tiers. Mellanox is strongly involved in photonics research activities aiming at promising transceiver technologies for beyond 400 Gb/s interconnects (e.g. silicon photonic, plasmonics, high-speed VCSELs etc.)
Mellanox participates in PROJECT through the Advanced Technologies group, which consists of more than 20 engineers and senior/principal engineers. The group has broad experience in the development and characterization of cutting-edge transceiver prototypes (from proof-of-concept to pre-commercial level) within the context of internal Mellanox projects, as well as national and European research grants, and has access to assembly equipment that replicates the exact capabilities of the Mellanox production lines. Mellanox has a broad range of optical interconnect products based on various technologies (EMLs, silicon photonics, VCSELs) to address the needs of different segments in the datacentre and is currently a fabless company working in collaboration with its fabrication partners.
In SiComb project, the main tasks attributed to Mellanox are: characterization of the SiC frequency comb chip, system integration of the SiC chip in a transceiver testbed and testing and definition of specifications, inputs on exploitation in the data communications field.
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Key persons
Elad D. Mentovich graduated from the Physical Chemistry department at Tel Aviv University, Israel, where he also earned his M.Sc. (Cum Laude). His dissertation is entitled “Realization of the Molecular Transistor Roadmap”. He earned his B.Sc. (Cum Laude) in Physics and Materials Engineering at Technion, Haifa, Israel in 2005. Elad published extensively in international academic publications such as Applied Physics Letters, The Journal of Nanobiotechnology, Nano Letters and Advanced Materials. He is an advisory board member at the The Lifeboat Foundation at the Chemistry Board, Engineering Board, and the Nanotechnology Board. Since 2012, he is a principal engineer in Process Technologies at Mellanox.
J.J. Vegas Olmos serves as Principal Engineer in Mellanox Technologies. He holds a PhD, an MBA, a Master in Arts in East Asian Studies, a Bachelor in Economics, a Bachelor in Science in Telecommunication Engineering and Master in Science in Eletronic Engineering. He has coordinated and participated in several FP6, FP7 and H2020 collaborative projects in the field of communications and networks. J.J. has been part of the Ethical Advisory Board of FIWIN5G, is a Senior Member of the IEEE and is part of the COST Action European Network for High Performance Microwave Photonics. He has been chip lead for silicon photonics in Mellanox Technologies.
Paraskevas Bakopoulos received his Diploma and Ph.D degrees from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He worked for 14 years as a researcher and senior researcher at NTUA and since August 2017 he is a senior staff engineer at Mellanox Technologies. His research interests focus on optical interconnects and optical switching in datacenter networks. He has authored or co-authored more than 110 peer-reviewed articles and conference papers and holds 4 patents. He is actively involved in several European projects and has participated in technical program committees of photonics-related events.
Boaz Atias holds a position of Sr. Manager, Electro-optical at the Advanced Technologies group At Mellanox Technologies Israel. In his position Boaz is in charge of all of PCB Design for the Advanced Technologies group. At Mellanox Boaz established R&D laboratory – “Advanced PCB Lab” and build up a new Hardware team to achieve 400G capabilities, and beyond. Boaz holds a vast experience of leading successful ultra-high speed electro optical designs. Prior to joining Mellanox, Boaz worked at several Fabless and Electro-optical companies such as: Optium/Finisar, EFFDON Networks, TeraChip and Smart-vision. Mr. Atias is a first-time participant to FET under H2020.
