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Andrew Schmitt joins Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com) in March 2009 as a seasoned optical market expert, bringing to Infonetics 18 years of telecom experience, including 14 focused specifically on optical networking. As lead optical analyst, Andrew’s expertise is focused squarely on optical network equipment, service provider optical networks, and optical services, including SONET/SDH, MSPP, crossconnect, WDM, ROADM, packet optical transport, 10G, 40G, 100G, metro, long-haul, etc. In addition to deepening Infonetics' current optical coverage, Andrew is focused on expanding into new optical territory.
Prior to joining Infonetics, Andrew founded and managed Nyquist Capital, an equity advisory and consulting firm serving companies in the carrier networking industry and the financial institutions investing in them. While at Nyquist, Andrew produced numerous acclaimed research reports on a range of topics, including Cisco’s optical module business, Google’s in-house effort to build datacenter switches, and the impact of Broadcom’s FTTH chipset. Before Nyquist, Andrew held several positions at Vitesse Semiconductor, including Director of Marketing and Systems Engineering, for which he led the business unit that designed and sold products to carrier telecom equipment manufacturers.
In addition to authoring regular optical market share and forecast reports for Infonetics, Andrew provides clients with constant expert opinion on hot topics via the Optical Continuous Research Service (CRS), and develops service provider survey research to provide clients with up-to-the-minute market analysis and recommendations based on service provider buying plans and preferences. He is also a consultant to startups, service providers, manufacturers, and the investment community.
A noted writer and public speaker, Andrew contributes to many media publications and presents at industry conferences year-round, including the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), NXTcomm/SUPERCOMM, and the Gilder Technology Conferences.
Andrew holds multiple issued and pending patents for TDM switching and interface architectures, earned his BS in Electrical Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and, when not pondering all things optical, is an avid road cyclist, regularly racing for the NEBC/Cycle Loft team in New England.
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