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Daily Wrap - Thursday

By OFC Staff


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OFC Conference and Exhibition
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 S Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, California 90015

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Registration
07:30 - 17:00, South Lobby

Badges and conference materials can be picked up at Registration.

Exhibition
10:00 - 16:00, Exhibit Halls G – K

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Have You Visited the OFC Career Zone Yet?
10:00 - 16:00, South Lobby

OFC is about the future of optical networking and communications, but it's about your future too. Meet representatives from companies such as Harris Corporation, Infinera, Intel and Lumentum to discuss available opportunities.

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Schedule: Thursday

Technical Sessions
08:00 - 17:30

Poster Sessions II
10:00 - 12:00, Exhibit Hall K

Product Showcase
10:15 - 10:45, Expo Theater III

Show Floor Programming

Open Packet DWDM
10:15 - 11:45, Expo Theater II

POF Symposium
11:00 - 13:00, Expo Theater III

ONF: The Path Forward
12:00 - 13:30, Expo Theater II

Technological Evolution of Next Generation Optical Cross Connect
13:30 - 14:30, Expo Theater III

Transport SDN
15:00 - 16:00, Expo Theater II

Market Watch

Panel V: Photonic Integration Business Case — Reality Check
10:30 - 12:00, Expo Theater I

Panel VI: SDN & Optics — What is the Business Case?
12:30 - 14:00, Expo Theater I

Postdeadline Papers

18:00 - 20:00
Rooms 403A, 403B, 408A, 408B

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Plenary Presenter Ginni Khanna

Thursday at OFC

The last day of the 2017 OFC Conference and Exhibition offers another full day of technical sessions, the second Poster Session and the Postdeadline Papers Session. In the Exhibition, the Expo Theaters feature the concluding two panels for Market Watch, one product showcase and five show floor programs.

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OFC: The Analyst's Perspective
IP-over-WDM Rises Again

By Don Frey, Principal Analyst, Transport and Routing, Ovum Consulting

With 10G and 40G, some carriers deployed IP-over-WDM to lower capex, but suffered from integration and support of alien wavelengths (optical signals originating from equipment not under their direct control). In the 100G world, adoption of IP-over-WDM has been slow, as heat and power requirements created additional challenges. Now, with improved heat and power performance from new, single-wavelength coherent solutions and SDN control, optical integration into switches and routers is coming back into fashion. Juniper announced a 1.2Tb WDM card capable of six 16QAM/8QAM signals for its QFX data center switch product line, currently the densest per slot integrated WDM-plus-IP product in the market. There is still a performance penalty because the WDM card does not fully support the total switching capacity, but it does remove the need for an expensive, additional optical blade. The target application for this solution is the DCI (data center interconnect), as switch power and heat usage in the data center (DC) is a bit more forgiving than in the telecom space. Juniper's solution now takes its place alongside offerings from Arista (600G) and Facebook Voyager (800G). All three have coherent optics–based DC switches. DC operators will need to evaluate these solutions to determine the best fit.

Nokia and Facebook Show Beyond-100G Prowess Across the Atlantic

By Ian Redpath, Practice Leader, Components, Transport and Routing, Ovum Consulting

Nokia and Facebook successfully completed multiple submarine field trials over a 5,500km submarine cable between New York and Ireland. This submarine field trial of Nokia Bell Labs' new probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS) technology used shaped 64QAM, which achieved a record spectral efficiency of 7.46b/s/Hz and increased the stated capacity of the system by almost 2.5 times. The test also included a successful 11,000km roundtrip submarine transmission using shaped 64QAM, achieving a record spectral efficiency of 5.68b/s/Hz and a first demonstration of 200Gbps and 250Gbps wavelengths and 16QAM modulation over a transatlantic submarine route using a real-time coherent DSP. The Nokia–Facebook trials are significant from a number of perspectives. First, by working with Facebook, Nokia has placed itself in a strong position to profit from the fast-growing, internet content provider–fueled wave of subsea cable investments. Nokia has demonstrated the versatility of its PSE-2 chipset and broadened the beyond-100G application space to include subsea. Nokia has also shown technological strength with 8QAM, 16QAM, and 64QAM transmission at transatlantic distances.

Squeezing Long-haul Optics into an OSFP Module: A Google Wish

By Kevin Lefebvre, Principal Analyst, Components, Transport and Routing, Ovum Consulting

During the "Hyperscale Data Centers: Inside and Out" panel discussion, Ryohei Urata from Google was asked whether OSFP (octal small form factor pluggable) or QSFP-DD (quad small form factor pluggable double density) was going to lead in the intra–data center market. Ryohei outlined his vision of putting long-haul coherent optics in a client-side pluggable for speeds beyond 400G. This would allow Google to use the same module for inter- and intra-data center distances while also giving it the ability to use coherent optics within the data center. Google would expect the switch manufacturers to upgrade to the new form factor, which would eliminate the need for backward-compatibility with QSFP28. Google strongly favors the OSFP form factor. However, Ovum believes that placing coherent optics and a DSP within an OSFP module would be a huge challenge and require substantial R&D investments. Managing the power and heat within the module alone would be extremely difficult. The industry has been trying for years, unsuccessfully, to place long-haul optics into a client-size pluggable. To help the industry move forward, Google might need to assist with NRE (non-recurring engineering) funding.

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