Advising on the commercial impact of technology and
    market changes in telecoms, software and IT services

Karen Liu, Vice President, Components

Karen Liu is responsible for market analysis of enabling technologies in video, telecoms and datacoms. She has worked on a number of custom advisory projects on a range of disruptive technologies, including the first detailed forecast for ATCA platforms. Current coverage areas include IPTV infrastructure and vendor positioning, new CATV technologies, and high-speed optical components.

Karen has eight years' experience in analysis and over 20 years' experience in networking. Having worked on both the supplier and customer sides of cutting-edge DWDM optical components, she has hands-on expertise in networks, systems architecture and the interaction with component technology. She is a regular speaker at industry events.

Prior to joining Ovum, Karen worked at Tellabs as a senior product planner, specializing in optical architecture and product definition, including a metropolitan DWDM product. Before Tellabs, Karen worked within the IBM Research Division, where she was responsible for the optical design of one of the earliest commercial DWDM system products. Karen received a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University and a BSE in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University.

Recent research includes:

• You're putting DWDM where? On-chip optical interconnect
• Alcatel-Lucent strategy looks beyond IPTV
• TV for the green age: reuse and simplify
• EDC sails out of LRM harbor
• "Generation Fiber" has different outlook than "boomers"
• Downloads, streaming, and over-the-top as customers, not competitors
• IPTV delivery: technology hot spots
• 40G client- and line-side port shipments ramp up in lockstep