Fiber sensing is moving from specialist field trials toward practical use in telecom and critical-infrastructure networks. This symposium examines what information can be achieved using distributed acoustic sensing, polarization sensing, and related telecom-based sensing approaches, and discusses how these can become scalable, actionable, and commercially credible network capabilities. The discussion will address cost and deployment requirements, massive rollout potential, reuse of existing fiber infrastructure across transport, metro, and access segments, and integration with dedicated fiber sensors for calibration and reference measurements. It will take up the challenge of turning raw sensing data into interpretable, trustworthy information. A key theme is operationalization: how sensing functions can be integrated into optical network control, SDN/NFV management, automation workflows, data abstraction layers, and emerging service models. The symposium will also consider constraints that may limit deployment, including privacy, data-sharing restrictions, coexistence with communications, ownership of sensing data, and the gap between demonstrations and operational adoption. Invited speakers will bring perspectives from operators, vendors, research, sensing platforms, data analytics, and end users to identify what is technically mature, what remains unresolved, and what should be the focus of the optical society.
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Jasper Muller
Adtran Germany, Germany
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Steinar Bjørnstad
Tampnet AS, Norway
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Aldo Minardo
Università della Campania, Italy
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Zhengsheng Jia
Cable Labs, United States
Speakers
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Florian Azendorf
Adtran, Germany
Talk: (Title to be Announced)
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Zeyuan He
Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Talk: (Title to be Announced)
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Miguel Gonzalez Herraez
Institute of Optics of the Spanish Council for Research (CSIC), Spain
Talk: (Title to be Announced)
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Dag Roar
Norwegian University science and technology, Norway
Talk: (Title to be Announced)
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Ezra Ip
NEC Labs America, United States
Talk: (Title to be Announced)
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Venk Mutalik
Comcast, United States
Talk: (Title to be Announced)
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Zack Spica
Lumetec, United States
Talk: (Title to be Announced)
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Yoshifumi Wakisaka
NTT, Japan
Talk: (Title to be Announced)