BTI Systems Announces Dr. Robert Keys as Chief Architect Optical
BTI Systems, a global supplier of Intelligent Service Edge solutions for the delivery of high-bandwidth, multi-protocol services, announced that Dr. Robert Keys has been appointed as the company’s Chief Architect Optical. With systems architecture, engineering, and product development experience, Dr. Keys is responsible for defining BTI’s optical technology vision and working with the engineering and sales teams to guide product evolution, ensuring best-in-class optical and network product performance.
“This is an exciting time to be joining BTI’s leadership team,” said Dr. Keys. “BTI has undertaken a number of significant steps toward a leading global market position in Packet Optical Networks and I look forward to applying my industry experience to help support the product line and corporate vision.”
An executive with broad experience in product development and strategy, Dr. Keys has a proven track record leading large multi-disciplinary development teams to deliver a range of products and software. Dr. Keys demonstrated leadership capabilities in the development of the strategic technical roadmap and investment requirements as Chief Engineer of optical components manufacturer Bookham Inc., where he also attained senior-level commercial experience through mergers and acquisitions and business development assignments. Prior to Bookham, Dr. Keys developed optical line products in the long-haul and metro product portfolios at Nortel Networks as Director Optical Amplifier Systems Development. With a Ph.D and M.Sc in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Glasgow, UK, Dr. Keys developed erbium fiber technology for commercial deployment in submarine and terrestrial networks as Senior Research Scientist Optical Fiber Development at Nortel BNR Europe.
“Dr. Keys has a wide range of experience spanning both the business and engineering aspects of the fiber-optic technology industry,” said Jonathan Boocock, Senior Vice President Engineering, BTI Systems. “He has skills we prioritized for the Chief Architect Optical position, including in-depth product knowledge, technical expertise, and leadership capabilities. We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Keys as we continue to expand globally.”
About BTI Systems
BTI Systems addresses increasing demand for Ethernet services, greater transport capacity, dynamic networking, and management simplicity in service provider and enterprise networks. Expanding the capacity of a single fiber up to 320Gbps, BTI’s Intelligent Services Edge solutions provide wavelength and packet-level delivery of high capacity services such as video, storage, wired data, wireless data and voice, and media to the network edge. Incorporating state-of-the-art technology BTI products have an ultra-compact design and are engineered for very low power consumption to reduce carbon footprint in central offices and data centers. The BTI portfolio consists of The BTI 7000 Packet Optical Edge, the BTI 700 Ethernet Access, and the Netstender Series. Key transport capabilities including CWDM/DWDM, optical multiplexing, amplification, dispersion compensation, software-provisionable multiprotocol client service interfaces, and packet-switching. End-to-end management of the BTI Network is provided by the proNX™ Management Suite. For more information, visit www.btisystems.com.
