NeoPhotonics announced the appointment of Dr. Rajiv Ramaswami to the company's Board of Directors. Dr. Ramaswami currently serves as Broadcom's Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Infrastructure & Networking Group, where he is responsible for Ethernet controller, switching and physical layer products, optical solutions, storage products, and security and embedded processors. From 2002 to 2010, Dr. Ramaswami served as Vice President and General Manager for a variety of business units in optical, switching and storage networking at Cisco Systems, most recently the General Manager of the Cloud Services and Switching Technology Group.