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

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My next day at OFC 2013 started off bright and early with a keynote talk on “Cloudonomics” (which I still don’t believe is a real word).   I learned that it refers to the changing economics brought about by cloud computing technology, and what this means for cloud data netw...
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At the beginning of the new year, it seems that everyone wants to predict the Next Big Thing (NBT) in any given field of human endeavor.  Top 5 lists are a handy way to do that; in fact there’s a whole website devoted to it. Many technology companies, including IBM , hav...
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Confessions of an Optics Hipster A month after OFC, you’re thrilled to hear that the Networking Guru has agreed to your request for an interview on whether software defined networking (SDN) is over-hyped.  Some people are saying this new approach to network management and con...
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Cloud Computing and Optical Networking Cloud computing is only one of the many ways that optical networking will continue to drive disruptive change across multiple industries.  Optical networking has become a key enabler for all types of cloud computing (public, private, an...
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Making Light Work of Encryption Data security has been in the news a lot lately, and your organization has good reason to be concerned.  While cybersecurity was once considered a niche market, we now live in an era where privacy, ethics, and security make headlines on a dai...
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Los Angeles (OFC / NFOEC), Calif. – March 9, 2011 – Verizon, EXFO, and General Photonics have successfully measured polarization mode dispersion (PMD) on a traffic-bearing long haul network without impacting neighboring channels carrying live traffic. PMD is measured to deter...
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Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS located in Dresden has developed an optical switch / variable optical power splitter device (OS/VOPS), which can enable fast and almost wear-free distribution of light signals in fiber optic networks. The technology is based ...
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OIF Members Lead the Industry in 56G Interfaces and Pluggable Coherent Optics Collaboration Results in Groundbreaking Work   Fremont, Calif. - Feb. 24, 2015 – Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) members are leading the market again in a live technology demonstration at...
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Ciena Delivers New Capabilities for the Web-Scale World   Powerful new chipsets, metro architecture and mobile backhaul solutions deliver expansive bandwidth, efficiency and agility   HANOVER, Md. – February 25, 2015 – Growth in cloud computing, network virtualizati...
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San Jose, California – March 20, 2015 – NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a leading designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated circuit based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed communications networks, today announced a micro-Integrat...
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