In November 2022, Dr. Jihad M Boura — former chief architect and global director of telecom engineering at IPG-Photonics, former Digital Systems professor at Boston University and Holy Spirit University in Beirut and the founder, CTO and vice president of engineering at ATC-VLSI and Proquent Systems— launched Beyond Silicon Solutions (BSS). A new fabless semiconductor start-up that hosts the strategic pool of IPG-Photonics chip design principals who can deliver high-end engineering services in high speed circuit, hardware, firmware, software and SoC designs and testing solutions for 400G systems and beyond. 

This team has a combined experience of 120 years in a myriad of solutions in network processors, packet classifiers, look-up technologies, traffic management, high speed switching fabrics, L2/L3/L4/L7 switching, SONET/SDH/OTN framers/wrappers, transponders, MuxPonders, ADM and 400G QSFP-DD. In addition, this team is skillful in ASIC/FPGA design and process, 100G/200G/400G system architecture, chip architecture, modeling, analysis and complex problem solving. Moreover, this division has a deep knowledge of embedded, DSP, communication systems and processor design.

Furthermore, BSS, a new entity builds on the long experience of its principal engineering team that has delivered projects for tier-1 companies such as Verizon, 3COM, Cisco, Saudi Electric and others. BSS promises a great potential based on the successful history of its professional team that was capable to compete and win against its competitors. Today, this team offers outsourcing opportunities in high-end engineering services and is leveraging the needed 2030 skills to bring cutting edge innovative solutions to the global telecom, data mining, encryption, high speed switching and transmission systems.

More information is available by contacting Raja Younes, director of business development at BSS, via email: ryounes@beyond-si.com.