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Niall Robinson is Mintera's Vice President of Product Marketing, with responsibilities encompassing market development, product management and marketing communications. For the last sixteen years Niall has been heavily involved in guiding leading edge technologies and solutions into the marketplace.Most recently at Optovia Corporation, Niall was responsible for strategic product management and market development for Optovia's range of optical amplifier solutions. Optovia deployed the industry's first hut-skipping optical amplifiers, significantly reducing network capital and operational costs. Whilst at Optovia Niall chaired the PICMG ATCA300 subcommittee developing the open standard ATCA300 specification. He continues to be the Chair of the specification subcommittee.From 1999 to 2002, Niall was Director, Product Planning for Nortel's ultra-long haul product portfolio, joining Nortel through the acquisition of Qtera. This was the industry's first 10GB/s ULH product and was successfully deployed in several national networks. Prior to Qtera Niall spent five years at MCI (now Verizon) with responsibility for identifying next generation optical technologies covering all aspects of the backbone network. In this role Niall worked with many equipment and technology companies to mature solutions into products ready for deployment. Niall started his career as a research engineer at STC (also acquired by Nortel) with research focused on terrestrial and submarine amplifier technologies and designs. Niall holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a Master's degree in Microwaves and Optoelectronics from University College London. | 