User:Kidorf

This is the user page for me, Howard Kidorf.

I am a managing partner at specialist consulting and engineering firm, Pioneer Consulting. At Pioneer Consulting, I have helped clients build new undersea cable systems and helped banks, private equity firms and others finance new cable systems.

Once a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories and technical director at Tyco Submarine Systems, I have contributed to the advancement of submarine system technology for more than 20 years. My earliest contributions were to the first undersea fiber optic crossing of the Atlantic, TAT-8. Since then, I have worked to develop the optical technologies used in undersea systems. I was responsible for the design of Tyco’s first optically amplified repeater and the extensions to terabit transmission using DWDM and Raman amplifiers.

I have authored Pioneer Consulting’s report “Suppliers of the World’s Submarine Fiber-optic Telecommunications Systems.” I have also authored over 36 technical papers, co-authored four text books related to submarine systems and optical transmission and been credited with 13 United States and numerous foreign patents.

Howard