Dr. Suresh Subramaniam completed an IEEE Distinguished Lecture Tour of Japan and Korea during the week of November 18. The lecture was titled “The Evolution of Datacenter Network Architectures,” and it discussed the latest advances in leveraging optical switching within datacenters to enable high throughputs, low latencies, and low power consumption. The tour included lectures at Sapporo (November 19), Yokohama (November 20), Osaka (November 21), and Seoul (November 22).