Maurizio Gazzola

Maurizio has more than 27 years of experience in telecommunications industry, mainly focused on WDM and Multi-Layer Integration (MPLS,CE, OTN and WDM). Involved with Metro, Long Haul and Extended Long Haul products and have been focused on POTS platform development in the last 10 years. Currently managing the Cisco Optical Architecture team focused on New Technology Innovation and Customer Network Solution Architecture , Maurizio has been part since the beginning of the core team developing Converged Transport functionalities and ROADM solutions for ONS 15454 MSTP, NCS 2000 and NCS 4000 inside Cisco Optical Networking as well as Router Optical Networking Architecture. Main focus is now abou new technology introduction especially in Quantum domain and AI Datacenter architecture. Based in Vimercate, Italy, Maurizio obtained his Master's degree in Telecommunication Engineering from "Politecnico di Milano" university and joined Pirelli Optical System as Product Line Manager in 19