4 August 2017
What does big data, artificial intelligence and the IoT mean for optical networking? Danish Rafique, Ph.D. explains "we are in an era where networks needs to be managed like a service, with all the flexibility, agility, and reliability of other business-critical platforms."
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By OFC Staff | Posted: 24 March 2017
Thank you to all who attended the 2017 Optical Fiber Conference and Exhibition (OFC). The conference concluded yesterday with 663 exhibiting companies, over 1,100 peer-reviewed papers and 14,500 attendees.
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By OFC Staff | Posted: 23 March 2017
OFC as Seen by the Analysts: IP-over-WDPM, Beyond-100G and Squeezing Long-haul Optics into an OSFP Module.
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By OFC Staff | Posted: 22 March 2017
The OFC Plenary Session, held on Tuesday, 21 March, offered three presentations from industry leaders on optical innovations for next-generation 5G networks, Cloud 3.0, Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality (VR) and much more.
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By Daryl Inniss, OFS, USA | Posted: 21 March 2017
The optical communications market is expanding as evidenced by growth in vendors’ revenues and margins. Moreover, companies are spending to increase manufacturing capacity and the outlook for growth is good. But some question the sustainability of this expansion.
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By OFC Staff | Posted: 21 March 2017
OFC, day three, offers the plenary session, the Exhibition, show floor activities and the always invigorating Rump Session. With all of this going on, why would you ever want to think you're somewhere else?
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By OFC Staff | Posted: 20 March 2017
5G is coming to a neighborhood near you but when is the question. Mobile data consumption is soaring, but a broad set of technology advances is poised to transform what today’s smartphones and other wireless mobile devices can do—ushering in high-resolution video and fully immersive, 3D and virtual environments.
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By OFC Staff | Posted: 20 March 2017
Day Two of OFC revs up with the start of technical sessions, five workshops, one symposium and two panels. Plus, it's the last day for Short Courses.
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By OFC Staff | Posted: 19 March 2017
Welcome to OFC. Learn how to access the OFC Technical Digest, browse today's program highlights and an OFC blog post on how ICPs are driving down 100G costs.
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By Molly Winans, Corporate Communications Associate at Ciena | Posted: 17 March 2017
Thousands of people gather from around the globe, all eyes on them. A sea of fans swarm the stage, ready to jam out. The lights come up, the crowd goes wild- no, we’re not talking about Bruce Springsteen playing a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, but Ciena’s house band OTN Speedwagon dominating the stage at this year’s OFC. However, from the way the excitement’s building, you’d think it was Bruce.
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By Casimer DeCusatis | Posted: 16 March 2017
OFC provides a venue to discuss breakthrough technologies, disruptive business trends, and the future of the networking industry. It’s hardly a surprise to find the discussion turning to higher data rates and the elimination of copper switches, but can these technologies really provide value in an increasingly competitive marketplace? At last year’s OFC, we saw an early demonstration of 400 Gbit/s technologies, and this year optical cross-connects will be discussed at OFC. Let’s take a closer look at these technologies, and discuss some of the challenges they face.
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By Tim Doiron, Principal Analyst, Intelligent Networking, ACG Research | Posted: 15 March 2017
The idea and the desire for a fixed-mobile converged network is one that has been around a long time – even before 2004 when the Fixed Mobile Converged Alliance (FMCA) was formed. While each vendor and organization may have their own variation on FMC, the idea at least in part has been to utilize shared infrastructure across a range of mobile, enterprise and residential services to achieve networking efficiencies.
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By Craig Matsumoto, Managing Editor, SDxCentral | Posted: 13 March 2017
Carefully crafted telecom standards have played an important role in building the networks we use today, but in the cloud world, where hardware is considered a throwaway commodity, standards don't carry the same importance.
Moreover, the cloud is in a hurry. Giants including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Baidu don't want to wait for standards.
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By Jim Theodoras, VP Global Business Development, ADVA Optical Networking | Posted: 10 March 2017
As OFC 2017 rapidly approaches, new technologies will be at the forefront of discussions. Much to the chagrin of optical fanbois everywhere and delight of those other guys on the wrong side of communication history, optical appears to be following in the footsteps of wireless in adding more and more complex modulation schemes to eke out more and more from the same amount of stuff – all the while, pretending to ignore the inevitable Shannon limit.
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By Lisa Huff, Discerning Analytics | Posted: 3 March 2017
The show floor session of the Data Center Summit at OFC 2017 will contain several presentations from industry experts that will discuss the current and next generation of optical technologies that are being developed for connectivity inside the data center. Evolving requirements of both cloud and enterprise data centers will be debated along with the entire optical networking value chain – including data center end user, equipment manufacturer and components suppliers.
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By Casimer DeCusatis | Posted: 1 March 2017
One of the hot topics at this year’s OFC conference is the current state of the optical transceiver industry. Over the past decade or so, the cost of high speed optical transceivers has fallen significantly, reaching under $1 per Gigabit. Despite this, optics has not yet displaced copper cables within the data center, and many servers continue to prefer copper to optical interconnects (despite the fact that most data center switches have migrated to fiber-based interconnects). The state of optics for server interconnects, and the push for under $0.25 per Gigabit solutions, is the subject of the always lively rump session at this year’s OFC conference.
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