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Fahri was the Founder, Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Qtera Corporation, founded in September 1998. Qtera quickly became the leading provider of ultra-long-haul photonic networking solutions for the Optical Internet and was acquired in January 2000 by Nortel Networks for $3.25 billion.Before founding Qtera, Fahri was with Siemens, where as a member of an executive team, he helped establish and manage the company's Optical Networks business unit in North America, which was later spun-off as Optisphere Networks in April 2000. Prior to joining Siemens, Fahri led Pirelli's pioneering activities in the optical amplifier and Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) markets, including the introduction of the first terrestrial WDM system and the first multi-channel, bi-directional optical amplifiers in North America. Pirelli WDM business unit system was was later acquired by Cisco Systems in March 2000 for $2.15 billion. Fahri holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology and holds five patents in the field of fiber optics and optical communications. | 