Brandon Collings

There are certain news items on media sites that nothing can prepare you for.

A post by Lumentum on LinkedIn paid tribute to the passing of CTO Brandon Collings, aged 51; the unfolding words revealing the magnitude of the company’s loss.

Brandon Collings was a wonderful person and a joy to know. He had that rarest gift of being able to explain complex technologies and make sense of trends with considered answers of extraordinary clarity.

Who else could explain the intricacies of a colourless, directionless, contention-less, flexible, reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) while describing the ROADM market as “glacially slow”?

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Neil McRae: What’s next for the telecom industry

In a talk at the FutureNet World conference, held in London on May 3-4, Neil McRae explains why he is upbeat about the telecoms industry's prospects

Neil McRae at Futurenet World, London earlier this month.

Neil McRae is tasked with giving the final talk of the two-day FutureNet World conference.

"Yeah, I'm on the graveyard shift," he quips.

McRae, the former chief network architect at BT, is now chief network strategist at Juniper Network. 

The talk’s title is "What's Next", McRae's take on the telecom industry and how it can grow.

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