Bechtolsheim is the chairman and co-founder of Arista Networks, a Santa Clara, California-based company that provides cloud networking services for clients, including Microsoft. Mark Brillhart brings over 30 years of planning, new product introduction, manufacturing, test, component engineering, commodity management/procurement and quality with a focus on data center networking. Andy earned his first Support was provided by the Computer Science Department and DARPA. TPM: I understand that lowering the power and lowering the cost per bit moved are the driving forces for the hyperscalers and the cloud builders, but are there times when they will accept higher power on network devices switches, optics, or network interface cards in exchange for lower capital costs? Isabelle holds a B.S. After a brief stint at chipmaker Intel, he took a summer job at Stanford University and became an electrical engineer PhD student in 1977. Andreas bechtolsheim.jpg 2,258 2,384; 839 KB Andy Bechtolsheim- AI consumes most of the compute cycles at Google (40287553181).jpg 3,648 4,578; 3 MB Categories: Andy (given name) Andreas (given name) Maria (given name) Maximilian (given name) 1955 births Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim is shifting to a reduced role at the Silicon Valley stalwart as he turns his attention to getting yet another start-up off the ground. When he gave the check to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's founders, the company had not yet been legally incorporated. Arastra later changed its name to Arista Networks. In 1977, he transferred to Stanford University and became a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering. Previously Andy was a Founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems. In addition to co-founding multiple, highly profitable tech companies (including Granite Systems, Kealia, Arastra (later renamed Arastra Networks), and Sun Microsystems), Bechtolsheim has invested heavily in companies such as Google, Brocade, Tasmania Network Systems, and Brightmail, and is considered one of the most successful angel investors in the world. As VP/GM Douglas Gourlay is responsible for the revenue and growth of the Arista software portfolio. WebAndy Bechtolsheim has made 9 investments. With more than 30 years of networking experience, she is the recipient of numerous awards including E&Ys Entrepreneur of the Year in 2015, Barrons Worlds Best CEOs in 2018 and one of Fortunes Top 20 Business persons in 2019. This kind of improvement, unfortunately, is a lot harder with co-packaging because the lithium niobate modulator is alotbigger than silicon rings. However, silicon photonics has one big problem, which is that it is a high insertion loss modulator. In 1980, Vaughan Pratt also provided leadership to the SUN project. In addition, Dan has made a number of early investments in SaaS, security and infrastructure. Prior to Arista, Chris was a Client Director at Cisco Systems responsible for global sales at key financial institutions. Phone Number: (650) 440-**** Andreas V Bechtolsheim, age 67, Woodside, CA Background Check Bechtolsheim is also known as one of Silicon Valleys most successful angel investors having most famously provided the start-up capital for Google. They returned to Germany five years later. Previously, Andy was a Co-Founder and Chief System Architect at TPM: They have the classic chick-and-egg problem, there. Hugh has a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Stanford University in Computer Science. WebAndy Bechtolsheim, Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman. In this role, Bechtolsheim drives the rapid productization of next generation network server technologies. Andy Bechtolsheim: [Laughter] The difference in optical efficiency with an external light source is 3 decibels so you need 3 dB more laser light to achieve the same 0 dB output on the interface that is required by the IEEE spec. Andy earned his first fortune as the founder of Sun Microsystems but the majority of his fortune comes thanks to Google. You cant mix and match transceivers as you can with the pluggables. And obviously co-packaging is really a packaging technology its not a new kind of optics, its not a new lambda, its not a new optical interface. He holds both B.S. reducing the trace length so that you dont need DSP in optical side or you just need a very light equalization, thus you save half of the power dissipation in optical side compared to pluggable, either eml, siph, or the new Lithium thin film modulator. Bechtolsheim gave the opening keynote speech at the International Supercomputing Conference in 2009. Because his home had no television, he often experimented with electronics growing up. in Marketing and Management from Siena College. Formerly Jayshree was Senior Vice President at Cisco, responsible for a $10B business in datacenter, switching and services. WebAndreas V Bechtolsheim, age 67, Woodside, CA Background Check Cities: Woodside CA, Incline Village NV, Menlo Park CA Andreas Bechtolsheim View Full Report Address:***** Lakeshore Blvd, Incline Village, NV. Announced Date. Fast forward to 2009, and the pair began to develop the app that would cement their fortunes for good: the cross-platform messaging service, WhatsApp. [5], Bechtolsheim's advisor was Forest Baskett. He is responsible for Arista's global sales operations, field marketing and business planning. [3], Bechtolsheim was born at Hngeberg am Ammersee, located in Finning, Landsberg, Bavaria,[4] the second of four children. As Vice President of Business Development and Alliances, Ed Chapman joins Arista with over 20 years of networking experience within the Data Center, Switching and Cloud markets. Jayshree holds a B.S. Andy was also a Founder and President of Granite Systems, a Gigabit Ethernet startup Pramod also held various leadership roles at Cisco over seven years. Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim (born 30 September 1955) is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur, investor, and self-made billionaire. Bechtolsheim has never been married, and remains a citizen of Germany. In terms of high-level goals for networking, lower power is desirable. But you can get to lower power much more easily just by changing the modulation technology. Bechtolsheim invested in all of Haber's previous startups: CompCore purchased by Zoran, GigaPixel purchased by 3Dfx and Mobilygen purchased by Maxim Integrated Products in 2008, as well as Moovweb, a cloud-based interface for mobile and computer websites in 2009. Prior to joining Arista, Marc served as the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of MedeAnalytics, Inc., a healthcare analytics company, and the Assistant General Counsel of Coremetrics, Inc., a digital marketing company. Over a long and distinguished career, Andy Bechtolsheim has earned a reputation as a top-notch engineer. in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University. And focusing in on reliability, there is a serviceability aspect. TPM: You know, you are making this sound a lot less fun than I thought it would be. On a lab basis, they all have valid points. WebAndreas Andy Bechtolsheim is Chairman, Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder of Arista Networks. The result was the SPARCstation 1 (known as "campus"), the start of another line of Sun products. That same year, he was voted by IT Pros in 2012 as the person who contributed most to server innovation in the last 20 years. One is the electrical interface between the switch chip and the optics, which of course, if you make it shorter, you need less power, and thats good. Now that reputation will be put to the test. Kumar Srikantan is responsible for the revenue and growth of Aristas unified cloud fabric related networking initiatives. Arastra later changed its name to Arista Networks. He later became an investor, providing Sergey Brin and Larry Page with their first round of funding, a $100,000 investment in 1998 before the two had even incorporated their company, Google. But if you create a laser that uses 1/10th the power, its reliability goes up by many orders of magnitude. Kelly also worked as an Associate at both McKinsey and J.P. Morgan. If you have 64 or 128 of them in your system, they could dominate the number of fields events. With funding from venture capitalists, Bechtolsheim left Stanford in 1982 to found Sun Microsystems with Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, and Vinod Khosla. He has been at Arista since 2011 and is responsible for global systems engineering, customer support and advanced professional services for customer advocacy. As a result of investments like these, Bechtolsheim was seen as one of the most successful "angel investors",[16] particularly in areas such as electronic design automation (EDA), which refers to the software used by people designing computer chips. And as a result, it doesnt quite fit so well on a co-package slice. Marc has a B.A. Christopher Cannon, Dean Halford, Brittany Harris and Julian Burgess, of the total wealth of the 500 richest people in the world, of the top 200 U.S. executives total awarded compensation. Our firm conclusion is that co-packaged optics is not necessary for 224 Gb/sec signaling. Prior to Awake, Rahul was the Global CTO at Cylance and held technical leadership roles in security start-up Bromium as well as McAfee advancing Network and Host Intrusion Prevention technologies. After funding Future Labs (one of the first producers of multi-point document collaboration software), Zhu went on to launch Webex, a multinational provider of on-demand web conferring and video conferencing services. His net worth reached $7 billion in September 2018. But here is the real issue that co-packaged optics is facing compared to the pluggable transceiver world. In 2014, Acton and Koum sold their creation to Facebook in a deal worth an estimated $19 billion. In 1977, he transferred to Stanford University and became a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering. Prior to Silver Lake, Charlie served in senior executive roles at Cisco Systems, including CTO and Chief Development Officer, and was a leader of Cisco's multi-product, multi-market growth strategy, driving entry into new markets. He has invested in a number of startups and has been successful every time. And that is that network costs are highly related to volume. Before joining National Semiconductor, Lewis was a partner at KPMG LLP, serving numerous technology and financial institution clients. John holds a B.S. [5], As an engineering student at Technical University of Munich Bechtolsheim entered the Jugend forscht contest for young researchers, and after entering for three years, won the physics prize in 1974. After obtaining his BS in Economics in 1952 and his MBA in 1954, Coulombe began his career at Rexall. It was inspired by the Xerox Alto computer developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Arista Networks is where Bechtolsheim remains today as chief development officer and chairman overseeing its initial public offering in June 2014. I grew up on a farm in Bavaria. Its a change in physics on the modulation path, which then helps to reduce the laser power, which by the way also makes the laser more reliable because the easiest way to make the laser more reliable is to reduce the power, which reduces the heat, which reduce the thermal problems. Two prominent Open Compute innovation leaders will receive awards at Open Server/Open Storage Summit 2013. The lithium niobate modulator is still a prototype and it may take 18 months or whatever to get to volume. All net worths are calculated using data drawn from public sources. Since leaving education, Reid has enjoyed remarkable success: in addition to co-founding the social networking site, LinkedIn, Reid is considered one of Silicon Valleys most influential and prolific angel investors, with his current portfolio of investments stretching across companies that include Airbnb, Apollo Fusion, Aurora, Blockstream, Coda, Convoy and Entrepreneur First in their number. Timothy Prickett Morgan: I understand there are different camps when it comes to silicon photonics and co-packaged optics. You need an enormous amount of laser power to make up for the fact that youre going to lose roughly 15 dB between the laser and the way out. converted to U.S. dollars at current exchange rates Read Thanks largely to this and other major investments, Bechtolsheim became known as one of the most successful angel investors in the world, particularly in the area of electronic design automation. He moved with his family to Rome in 1963, returning to Germany five years later to study engineering at Munich's University of Technology where he won a Fulbright Prize. It is Bechtolsheims job to synthesize all of the networking requirements from hyperscaler, cloud, and now large enterprise customers, all of the switch and network interface ASICs that go into systems, and all of the research being done with electrical and optical signaling and try to plot a course for products for Arista Networks. We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 30 September. He first enrolled at Technical University of Munich as an engineering student. Prior to that she had an eight year career at Infinera Corporation (NASDAQ: INFN), an intelligent transport networking company, most recently as CFO from July 2010 to February 2014 and Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller from July 2006 to July 2010. if in next generation of 200G PAM4/lane, you have to put a canscaded FEC there, you may have over 400ns latency again, this is somewhat unacceptable in AI/ML. Sun Microsystems significantly contributed to the evolution of myriad critical computing technologies, including Unix, thin client computing, SPARC microprocessors, and open-source software. Announced Andy Bechtolsheim: So I think the best way to think about this is that the goal is always power reduction. He called the computers system the "SUN" workstation. In the pluggables world, the industry is making 10 million optical transceivers a year, and co-packaging is starting at zero and it will take a long time to move up. Prior to joining Arista, Ita served as CFO of a stealth start up firm in the energy sector from February 2014 to May 2015. So there are four quality and quite promising technologies on the horizon that use different optical effects to achieve the modulation. He cofounded Sun Microsystems, invented the workstation, was Google's first investor He now drives worldwide sales and customer engagement for the company across global regions and non cloud verticals. I couldnt tell you. I think the crux of this whole argument is that people want highly availability, they want low power, they want high bandwidth, but the hardest one is reliability. When he was 16, wishing to experiment with the new Intel 8008 microprocessor, Bechtolsheim convinced a local electronics firm to let him develop a microprocessor for their machine controllers. Its CEO, Jayshree Ullal, did not disclose financial details but Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim (born 30 September 1955[2]) is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur and investor. Since graduating with a BS from Stanford in 1994, Brian Acton has enjoyed huge success. In the pluggable world, the choice of the optics technology is not tightly coupled to the switch chip. He has made a number of successful investments in EDA. Prior to that, Jeff held roles as the technical marketing leader for the Catalyst 6500 Series and then Nexus 7000 Series platforms. from Stanford in 1982. Ashwin holds a B.S. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. He has a B.S. But nobody ever built a switch chip that has an XSR channel because there is no market for it. [5] Bechtolsheim left Stanford to co-found the company, Sun Microsystems, as employee number one, with McNealy and Khosla, and with Bill Joy, who had been part of the team developing the BSD series of Unix operating systems at UC Berkeley; Bill is usually counted as the fourth member of the founding team. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee #16 and now And the external light source is connectorized, meaning its a blind mate fiber connector that connects to the co-package on the chip and then there is another connector from the co-packaged chip to the front panel. The BTO modulator I mentioned above will have even lower insertion loss and it has a higher efficacy in terms of converting electrical energy to the desired optical effect of modulation. He joined Cisco in 1996 via the acquisition of Granite Systems, rising to Senior Vice President and General Manager of Datacenter switching and services. His net worth reached $7 billion in September 2018. He one of the Richest Engineer who was born in German. For example, using MRM instead of M-Z interferometer, or try to see if LiNbo3 thin film over silicon/silica could be integrated by arrays. Previously, Andy was a Co-Founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems, responsible for next generation server, storage, and network architectures. Though the company, they intended to develop advanced server technologies using Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor. He's Now The Richest College Professor Of All Time, Back In 1998, This Stanford Professor Gave Two Students $100k To Build A Search Engine. In February 2004, Sun Microsystems announced it was acquiring Kealia in a stock swap. 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