Sunday, 30 March,
13:00
–
15:30
Rooms 203-204 (Level 2)
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
Chris Tracy, ESnet, United States
Speakers
James Deaton, Internet2, United States
Danial Ebling, Utah Education and Telehealth Network, United States
Lidia Galdino, Corning Optical Communications, United Kingdom
Mariam Kiran, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
Reza Rokui, Ciena, Canada
Dirk van den Borne, Juniper Networks, Germany
Wenji Wu, Energy Sciences Network, United States
John Wu, ESnet, United States