Nathan Tracy – OIF Board Member (TE Connectivity)
Bio: Nathan Tracy currently serves as OIF’s President on the Board of Directors. During the past twelve years he has also served OIF as vice president of marketing, co-chair of market awareness and education committee (MA&E), technical committee chair, and technical committee vice chair.
As a technologist on the system architecture team for the Digital Data Networks business unit at TE Connectivity (TE), Nathan is responsible for driving standards activities and working with key customers to enable new system architectures. Nathan has more than 30 years of experience in technology development, marketing and business development for TE in areas including RF/microwave, and high-speed signaling technology for the networking, telecom, wireless, automotive and defense markets.
Nathan is also an active member of other industry standards and associations. Currently he is a regular attendee and contributor to IEEE 802.3, and Ethernet Alliance. Additionally, he is active in a number of industry MSAs and forums where he has held leadership roles.
Nathan earned his Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering Technology degree from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Presentation Abstract: OIF is leading the way in understanding and developing solutions to enable next generation AI/ML architectures, Moving to the next data rate is a critical element of that future, and requires careful decision making. Multiple link types within these architectures require different performance levels and data rates. First generation AI/ML implementations have emphasized new link priorities such as the importance of supporting long electrical links. If this is to continue for the next generation, it will affect the decisions we must consider. Additional requirements such as enabling energy efficient optical and electrical links will be critically important. OIF has a proven record of determining next generation requirements and working with industry to address those requirements and deliver interoperable solutions. This presentation will provide thoughts on a process to get the action started.
