Tuesday, 01 April,
19:30
–
21:00
Theater I, Exhibit Floor
If a Global Disaster Struck and all the Optical Infrastructure was Wiped Out, Would You Rebuild with Today’s Mainstream Technologies?
This rump session would have advocates of new fibers and new optical switching and amplification technologies exchange rhetorical blows with defendants of today’s mainstream technologies.
- Do we just go back to O-band, C-band, InP lasers, EDFAs, G.652 fiber?
- Would this blank slate eliminate the support of legacy systems and provide dramatic efficiency improvements?
- Can we jettison the IEEE/OIF standards?
- Will there be any copper at all?
Team A
Chris Doerr, Aloe Semiconductors, USA
Tad Hofmeister, Google, USA
Maxim Kushnerov, Huawei, Germany
Rebecca Schaevitz, Mixx Technologies, USA
Team B
Polina Bayvel, Univ. College London, UK
Vijay Vusirikala, Arista Networks, USA
Dave Welch, Attotude, USA
Peter Winzer, Nubis Communications, USA
Team C
Chris Cole, Coherent Corp., USA
Jorg-Peter Elbers, Adtran, Germany
Katherine Schmidtke, Eribel Systems, USA
Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon, USA
Organizers
Antonio Tartaglia (Lead), Ericsson, Italy
Roy Rubenstein, LightCounting LLC, United States
Dirk Van Den Borne, Juniper Networks Inc., Germany