By Lisa Huff, Discerning Analytics | Posted: 13 February 2012
We have been talking about 40G for more than 10 years now in telecommunications networks, but just for about three years for datacom ones. The first components were shown at OFC/NFOEC 2009, but we have yet to see them used in “real-world” networks. This is starting to change. Many early adopters such as Google, Facebook and the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AIX) are now deploying switches and routers that have 40 and 100G ports
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By C. David Chaffee, Founder and CEO, Chaffee Fiber Optics | Posted: 13 February 2012
When optical is the only transmission medium that can stay ahead of the accelerating global demand for broadband, there are going to be new challenges. This is an exciting theme that is being explored at OFCNFOEC 2012.
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By C. David Chaffee, Founder and CEO, Chaffee Fiber Optics | Posted: 3 February 2012
The service providers sit atop the optical transport food chain. While these days carriers come in a variety of stripes and guises, the service providers are still the big boys with the most wampum--and the system and components vendors play off their lead.
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By David Nugent | Posted: 27 January 2012
OFC / NFOEC 2012 will host a great programme on Green Photonics. With sessions designed to stimulate discussion amongst delegates, permit me to contribute my own thoughts to the debate.
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By Lisa Huff, Discerning Analytics | Posted: 24 January 2012
For many years now, fiber proponents have been adamant that “copper is dead” and indeed, we’ve pretty much seen this take hold in the public network for all but the last mile. Most of the world’s carriers have realized that in order to meet their customer’s insatiable demand for bandwidth, they have to use fiber. But what about the local area network (LAN) and the data center? Well, things are starting to change there as well. Starting with Gigabit Ethernet, fiber has made inroads into what has for almost 30 years been dominated by copper. And with 10G Ethernet now being adopted quicker than ever before, fiber is becoming an even larger part of the data center network.
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By C. David Chaffee, Founder and CEO, Chaffee Fiber Optics | Posted: 20 January 2012
OFCNFOEC provides an abundance of information that can take weeks to fully process once the attendee finally gets home. Topics that those coming to the show this year tell us they are focused on include coherent optics, the maturation of IP+optical networking, next generation passive optical networking, data centers, and faster transmission speeds.
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By David Chaffee, Founder and CEO, Chaffee Fiber Optics | Posted: 3 January 2012
At no time in the 30 years I have covered the fiber optics industry has there been this much optical fiber produced by those who can, this many lasers and detectors made from those who have the facilities, this much global demand for the stuff that makes fiber optic networks.
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By Weihua Guan | Posted: 2 September 2011
Since the OFC/NFOEC 2012 invited presentations list is already online, I’ve started to take a look and think about which ones I should attend. As before, OFC/NFOEC 2012 demonstrates a strong connection between research and real applications. Leaders in various areas of optical communications and fiber optics present the most recent advances. For example, Dr. Willner will give a talk on polymer electro optic modulators and Dr. Gaeta will give a talk on nonlinear optical signal processing. I think it’s a precious chance that I will be exposed to such high level talks.
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By Weihua Guan | Posted: 2 August 2011
The 2012 OFC/NFOEC conference is particularly attractive since the optical communication market is going through a big change. Since last year, the optical communications industry has attracted more investments and created more jobs.
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By Angela Stark | Posted: 8 June 2011
Welcome to the OFC/NFOEC 2012 conference blog. Though the 2012 conference and exhibition are more than seven months away, we are happy to kick things off online with the launch of the 2012 website and blog. From paper submission info to a running list of 2012 exhibitors, the OFC/NFOEC website will house everything you need to know about the conference and exhibits.
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