Fady Masoud

Biography

Fady Masoud is a Senior Director for Solutions Marketing at Nokia, focusing on next-generation coherent pluggable optics and subsystems. His area of expertise is the architecture and requirements of next-generation optical networking infrastructure. During his 30 years in the telecommunications industry, Fady has held various positions in the optical networking domain at Nortel, Ciena, Infinera and now Nokia. He started as a hardware test engineer on the first OC-192 (10 Gb/s) systems and then was a systems and network engineer on optical transport platforms, all combined with hands-on experience. Fady holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Laval University (Quebec City, Canada) and a master’s degree in systems technology (software simulation of optical networks) from the Superior School of Technology (Montreal, Canada). He has written numerous industry and technical publications on a variety of key topics, including a book on next-generation optical networking, coherent pluggables, cloud networking and data center interconnect.