 the virtual newsroom for telecom and tech professionals, and JSA Radio, the voice for tech and telecom on iHeart Radio. I'm Jamie Scott-Okitaya, CEO of JSA. Welcome here with us today is Len Bozak, the XKL CEO and founder. He's also the visionary behind the e-velocity platform. Co-founder of Cisco Systems, Mr. Bozak launched XKL over 25 years ago. Forward-thinking company that engineers and implements optical networking solutions with the future in mind. Len, welcome to JSA TV. Thank you. So congratulations on that launch of this new product suite e-velocity. And could you start by telling our viewers the basics behind the solution and what makes it unique in the marketplace? When you have a new technology like coherent 100 gig, really the first thing that people want to do with it is take a good number of the old technology, in this case 10 gig client ports, and run them over that new technology. Well, 100 gig has been in theory available for a number of years and but still it's true as far as I'm aware that 10 gig is the big seller. More 10 gig client ports than anything else and that's often the first application that people use 100 gig for. They're starting to need additional capacity and we give them a good way to conveniently take a whole bunch of additional 10 gig and run them up. There's an alien wave on existing system or a new system in Metro or even quite all home. So this is a convenient way to take your 10 gig ports and run 100 gig in an efficient way. We'll also let you choose to statistically over subscribe in a way that most users never noticed. So it's a very pleasant way of not being just a simple mox. And there's intuitive technologies built in such as statistical multiplexing that were used to engineer e-velocity. Could you tell us what those are and if they would be considered an industry first? Well statistical multiplexing is a very old idea. It was used for character transmission in the 60s but as far as I'm aware we're the first people to do anything like that at this rate. We do a sort of joke when we call this level one in a quarter which is it's easily at frames all right but it's not a switch yet it gives you much of the benefit of a switch. So you can group your your client traffic and prioritize it separately. It lets you do now one of the really two really interesting things are it lets you do a sort of non-hard switch over optical protection. So if one of your links fail you can have all the traffic go down another link potentially over subscribing it but it's the middle of the night no one's going to notice and you get to not get the call then and fix it in the morning. The other thing you could potentially do with this is build a geographically distributed router port multiplexer that's robust to individual link failures and this gives you an economic advantage in being able to use your expense of router switching decisions at a higher capacity than you otherwise might. And talking about that user bandwidth consumption what are the benefits for those users to be able to scale that bandwidth on demand? You don't have to know in an absolutely thick sense what's going on with your clients to be able to have additional line efficiencies. This is a very convenient way to do that you can set some general parameters in the technique used to arbitrate bandwidth conflicts is called deficit weight around Robin our version of it is reasonably easy to set up and it gives you a good control over what's going to happen. So it lets you produce a more economically efficient yet robust solution without having to know in great detail where all the traffic is going to be moment by mom. You can see a real financial benefit for that for sure. So lastly before we go it's again an honor land to have you a visionary in our industry sitting down with us today. So I have to ask what optical networking trends can you predict for us in the next year or two out? I don't know how well I can predict the specifics but the hopes are faster lower power and if not actually lower cost not more costly for bend with basis. Faster we've been if you've been following there's there's many people who are willing to promise you faster today but we don't have how do you say such a good result on the lower power and the price perhaps we can get all three of those to improve in the coming year. Some of the more promising technologies however by the time you know we think the components are qualified it's it's going to be the end of 2017 and that means system products in 2018. We can hope I'd like to go faster but I wouldn't make that back but still faster lower power and the price is also a problem that we're hoping we're hoping. Well thank you so much Len for your time here today and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA-TV and JSA Radio.