This industrial panel addresses the increasingly urgent challenge of scaling network capacity to meet the explosive bandwidth demands of AI-driven traffic and 6G services. While the path toward higher data rates remains clear, the panel moves beyond theoretical limits to focus on the practical industrialization of multi-band transmission (extending into L and S bands), the deployment of spatial division multiplexing (SDM) through multi-core and multi-fiber systems, and the shift toward 1.6T and 3.2T coherent interfaces. By bringing together perspectives from network operators and equipment vendors, the discussion evaluates the trade-offs between hardware footprint, power consumption, and cost-per-bit, aiming to define a sustainable roadmap for capacity expansion that balances immediate scalability with the long-term evolution of the physical fiber plant.
Organizers
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Paola Iovanna
Ericsson, United States
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Yi Lin
Huawei, China