ABSTRACT
A high performance, all-optical matrix switch is an enabling technology that has application to a broad range of solutions that are critically important to the national security interests of governments worldwide. This talk will cover the essentials of all-optical matrix switching with an emphasis on the applications that are enabled by the switches. We will touch on a broad range of applications while focusing on those applications that enable optical network monitoring for Intelligence, law enforcement and cyber security purposes. The mass scale proliferation of high speed optical networks makes it more difficult each year for governments to cost effectively access the essential information they need to protect their national security interests. Not only are these networks increasing in quantity, the data rates are also increasing, thus making it increasingly more difficult to access critical information buried in a sea of network data. These networks are also under ever increasing cyber-attacks that need to be identified and mitigated to protect national security.
HUBER+SUHNER Polatis provides a full range of high performance, all-optical switches that enable governments worldwide to cost effectively access and protect the critical information on their optical networks. The mission critical nature of these Intelligence, Law enforcement and cyber security applications require an all-optical switch with best in class reliability and outstanding optical performance and the Polatis switches meet the requirement. We will also demonstrate a mass cyber surveillance application in conjunction with Polatis’ partner NetQuest. This joint solution provides a ready-to-deploy, mass cyber security solution without the need for complicated software development by the user organization.
This talk will be given by Mike Bitting, Head of the Huber+Suhner Polatis Government and Intelligence business unit. Mike has been involved with fiber optic switches for nearly 40 years and has been with Polatis for the last 18 years.
BIOGRAPHY
Mike Bitting is presently the Head of the Government and Intelligence business unit for HUBER+SUHNER Polatis. He has been on the Polatis team for the past 18 years since the early startup phase through the acquisition of Polatis by HUBER+SUHNER in 2016 and up to the present. Mike worked during his early career as an engineer and engineering manager for the US Department of Defense for 15 years developing fiber and free space optical communication systems. He has been involved as a developer and/or user of all-optical matrix switch technology since the early 1990’s when the first all-optical switch products were brought to market. Mike has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.