Tim Pearson
Vice President, Product Line Management, Ciena
Tim Pearson is Vice President of Product Line Management at Ciena where he leads the development and design of the company’s Routing, Switching, and Data Center platforms. His team plays a key role in guiding Ciena’s communication service provider and hyperscale customers as they plan their network builds to capitalize on data center AI infrastructure opportunities.
Since joining Ciena in 2009, Tim has performed several product management roles in the development of the company’s optical networking products including roles in both hardware platform development and network management functions. Prior to Ciena Tim worked at Nortel where he led business development for optical platforms in Japan and managed teams developing multi-service switching platforms.
Tim received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Memorial University, a Master of Management Science degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from MIT Sloan School.
Insights from Tim Pearson
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My operational costs keep going up – how can I maximize the value of my tools’ investments?
Answer: Invest in products where you can, customize operations solutions where you must. Said differently, stop building custom tools when packaged products deliver suitable functionality at a lower cost. Tim Pearson elaborates.
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Pluggable coherent optics – What is the best management approach?
Ciena’s Tim Pearson explains why multi-layer controllers are best suited to help you plan, operate, and optimize optical performance in a converged IP/Optical architecture.
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Deploying coherent plugs – is there more to the story?
Looking for a reasonable approach to getting started deploying coherent pluggables? Ciena’s Tim Pearson provides the final two steps for an approach that allows you to smoothly evolve your operational model and networks to deploy a Coherent