AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES: G. Mabud Choudhury is standards
manager for OFS. He represents OFS in IEEE 802.3 Ethernet,
INCITS T11 Fibre Channel and IEC standards. Previously, he was
an R&D engineer and manager for product development, systems
engineering and copper standards, fiber and intelligent cabling
infrastructure products/solutions for AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent, Avaya,
and CommScope. He has an MS degree in mechanical engineering
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS degree
in mechanical engineering and in chemistry from Duke University.
He holds 32 US patents and has authored several papers, webinars
and IEEE/Fibre Channel/TIA standards contributions. Mabud can
be reached at mchoudhury@ofsoptics.com.
John Kamino, RCDD, is a senior manager of Product
Management for OFS. A 27-year veteran of the company,
he has also held positions in optical connectivity product
management, offer management, product marketing, sales,
and engineering. He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MBA from Mercer
University. John can be reached at jkamino@ofsoptics.com.
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