Advances in International Standards on Optical Networks Towards 2030

Wednesday, 02 April, 13:30 – 14:30

Theater III

Session Description:

Multiple international standards developing organizations (SDOs) such as BBF, ETSI-F5G, IEEE, ITU-T and OIF have been actively working on optical network standards toward 2030. In 2020, ETSI officially started the standardization of the 5th-Generation Fixed Network (F5G) with the vision of fiber-to-everywhere. Currently, F5G Advanced (F5G-A) is being defined to support the future evolution of fixed telecommunications networks towards 2030. Similar to ITU-R’s initiative on International Mobile Telecommunications towards 2030 (IMT2030), ITU-T is also considering a framework to address optical network standards towards 2030. In addition, collaborations among these SDOs are strengthening to efficiently and compressively address the technical challenges ahead. Among the collaboration topics are optical network generation definition and emerging technical topics such as fiber-to-the-room (FTTR), 800G/1.6T intra-data-center optical pluggable modules, beyond-1Tb/s (B1T) coherent optical interfaces and networks, network for AI, and AI for network. This Session aims to bring together experts at OFC 2025 to inform and discuss new advances in international standards on optical networks towards 2030.

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