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

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The 2012 OFCNFOEC plenary session this morning was highlighted by a vision into the future of cable TV and a very moving talk by Isao Sugino of Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on the impact on telecommunications infrastructure of the 2011 tsunami, whic...
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Welcome to my daily blog from OFC 2014!  For the duration of the conference, I’ll be updating you on some of the most interesting topics at the event, reviewing key presentations, and generally taking the pulse of OFC. We’ve got a lot to cover, starting with the conference ...
/en-us/home/news-and-press/ofc-blog/2014/march-2014/ofc-day-1-sunday,-march-9-off-to-see-the-wizards/ 3/10/2014 6:20:01 PM (UTC - 05:00)
I’m starting to think that enthusiasm for a conference seems to follow the Gartner Group hype cycle - a huge buildup leading up to the event, followed by the culture shock of returning to your day job, and later the realization that you learned a bunch of useful things afte...
/en-us/home/news-and-press/ofc-blog/2015/april-2015/most-memorable-moments-from-ofc/ 4/7/2015 8:29:28 AM (UTC - 05:00)
One topic of note at the MIT Workshop on Photonics in Servers and Routers, commonly known as “Majorca at MIT” was the assertion made five years ago at the first Majorca meeting about network architectures migrating from the campus LAN into the data center, and then into bo...
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Data centers have become the largest target client sector for equipment manufacturers and components suppliers over the past ten years. Yet many of these vendors still do not understand that when it comes to data centers, none are the same. And, while there are large categorie...
/en-us/home/news-and-press/ofc-blog/2016/march-1026/data-center-interconnect/ 3/10/2016 1:20:52 PM (UTC - 05:00)
Data center interconnect (DCI) is a growing market for the entire optical value chain – from carriers to optical component suppliers. Standard OTN, DWDM, Carrier Ethernet or legacy SONET/SDH alone cannot address the high-bandwidth, low-power and high-density demands of DCI. As...
/en-us/home/news-and-press/ofc-blog/2016/march-1026/data-canter-interconnect-specific-solutions/ 3/11/2016 3:54:43 PM (UTC - 05:00)
Sterling has more than 15 years' experience in telecommunications as an industry analyst and journalist. His coverage area at Heavy Reading is optical networking, including packet-optical transport. IP and optical integration as a concept has a long history. It has been a ...
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While there’s been a lot written about the potential benefits of software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), recent use cases and production deployments have demonstrated the real world value of these technologies. These topics have also been ...
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