Richard Norris | Senior Director, Sales Engineering
Ciena

Richard Norris, Senior Director, Sales Engineering, Ciena

Richard Norris is Senior Director of Global Submarine System Engineering at Ciena with responsibility for submarine solution technical sales and development. He’s been in the telecom industry for over 30 years working for both vendors and operators. He was first involved in submarine networking in the 1990s where he was the technical representative on a number of new cable consortia projects. Since then Richard has held various leadership positions where he continued to be heavily involved with the submarine networking industry. He holds an Engineering degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Central Lancashire and resides in the UK.

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Submarine Networks EMEA 2026 - Day 1 @ 12:25

What’s next for subsea network architectures and design?

  • With bandwidth requirements still increasing, how can we increase capacity on subsea cables? 
  • Is technology development slowing down? 
  • What role can multi-core fibre, hollow-core fibre and other fibre innovations play in addressing capacity challenges? 
  • Where are we with the fibre pair count in repeatered systems? 
last published: 27/May/26 11:55 GMT

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