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▶ 5:00 · $ORIOLE-NETWORKS · Building radically faster networks for AI: James Regan, CEO of Oriole Networks
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Building radically faster networks for AI: James Regan, CEO of Oriole Networks

2026-05-08 · 1 company · 4 thematic
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james regan

Serial deep-tech entrepreneur and CEO of Oriole Networks, a UK photonic switching startup spun out of UCL. Previously built and exited a photonic integration company; worked at Nortel research labs in the 1990s. Has spun out companies from five European universities including TU Eindhoven and UCL.

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“With an optical switch, you can have high radix, high bandwidth, low latency. But you they have to switch in nanoseconds to be able to manage the small chunks of data that you you want to manage, particularly in inference. And that means a…”
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