• Technical Conference:  30 March – 03 April 2025
  • Exhibition: 01 – 03 April 2025
  • Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA

Networks of the Future and Next-Generation Production

Moscone Center

OFCnet2025’s workshop embodies the OFCnet vision to be a bridge between the OFC technical conference and “networks of the future”. Over 2.5 hours, the panel-format workshop is a forum that enhances development of next-generation networks by highlighting cutting-edge technologies introduced during the OFC conference that are gaining maturity and will impact near-term production design as well as the networks of the future.

The workshop focuses on these four key areas:

  • Automation and orchestration: evolving the network operations team
  • Trend analysis and failure prediction: standardized data collection for machine learning
  • Quantum networking early wins: report-out on the state of implementation
  • Networks of the future: bleeding-edge technologies and how soon will they be here?

Each area will have two presenters to set the stage, followed by a moderated panel+audience discussion on the topic to explore the adoption of these technologies within production networks and the associated challenges.

Organizers

Sana Bellamine (Lead), CENIC MMBI, United States

Scotty Strachan (Lead), Nevada System of Higher Education, United States

Akbar Kara, Ciena, United States

James Stewart, Utah Education and Telehealth Network, United States

Christopher Tracy, Energy Sciences Network, United States