Jimmy Yu

Jimmy Yu leads the Optical Transport, Microwave Transmission and Mobile Backhaul Transport, Coherent Optics market research.

Mr. Yu originally joined Dell’Oro Group in 2001, and spent over four years as the primary analyst for Dell’Oro Group’s Optical Transport program and built our coverage of the PON market.  In 2006, Mr. Yu joined Spansion, a leader in flash memory solutions, where he was a Strategic Product Marketing Manager for Spansion’s server memory subsystem product line.  He re-joined Dell’Oro Group in 2008.

Prior to joining Dell’Oro Group in 2001, Mr. Yu worked for Deloitte Consulting in the strategy and operations group as a Management Consultant with a focus in the high-tech industry. Mr. Yu began his career in Northrop Grumman’s space technology group, where he was a lead mechanical engineer developing satellite communication subsystems and components, such as transceivers. While at Northrop Grumman, he also developed advanced packaging approaches for millimeter wave RF semiconductors, circuit boards, fiber optics, and photonics.

Mr. Yu is a recognized authority in the Optical Transport market and has written articles in various industry magazines such as Lightwave, Telecom Asia, and TMCnet. He has been quoted in publications such as Bloomberg, Businessweek, Converge! Network Digest, Dallas Business Journal, Fierce Telecom, Network World, SdxCentral, Telecom Asia, and The Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Yu is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events, including Lightwave Optical Innovation Summit, OFC, OIDA, Photonics Society, and the Next Generation Optical Networking and Packet Microwave and Backhaul conferences.

Mr. Yu received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Davis and an M.B.A. in General Management with an emphasis in Corporate Strategy and Finance from the University of Michigan.