OFC Brings Together Industry Leaders, Innovators

The OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) is hailed as “the largest global conference and exhibition for optical communications and networking professionals. ” The wedding, which has been held annually for more than 40 years, brings together industry experts, professionals, researchers while others, offering a forum for networking, education and business opportunities. OFC also provides insight on the major trends and technology advances impacting on the industry. The latest technologies, products and information are presented - optical networking, gigabit Ethernet, SDN and networks, test and way of measuring, optical packets, optical interconnects/switches, 100Gb/s hardware, WDM, goes, ROADMs, VCSEL, transport, spatial division multiplexing, integrated photonics, and FTTX are among them. Technical presentations Sapphire Windows will be held, in addition to discussions about the latest market trends and future Fused Silica Wafer predictions. These include Market Watch, a three-day series of panel discussions that should engage the latest application topics and business issues in the field of optical communications. Presentations and panel sessions during this series will feature speakers from across the optics industry, including Apple, Cisco, Finisar, Google and Infinera. Among topics to be addressed are submarine interconnection of data centers, 100G pluggable optics, and 400G Ethernet technologies. Another such presentation scheduled is the Service provider Summit. The offer is designed specifically for CTOs, network architects, network designers and technologists within the service provider and carrier sector. Panel discussions will be held, in addition to a keynote presentation by Margaret Chiosi, known network architect at AT&T, that will be speaking about Network Function Virtualization. Other presentations during OFC are Vertically Integrated WDM Platforms as opposed to. Open Line Silicon Windows Systems, and Optical Layer Flexibility with Next Generation ROADMs. OFC will feature exhibitors - CaF2 Windows network and test equipment vendors, systems and component manufacturers, fiber cable and specialty fiber manufacturers - from many international companies, too, including Alcatel-Lucent, Avago, Ciena, Coriant, Corning Inc., Cisco Systems, Fujitsu Optical Components, Global Communication Semiconductors Inc., Huawei Technologies USA, Juniper Networks, and Mitsubishi International.