Workshops

This workshop will delve into the real-world potential of anti-resonant hollow-core fibers (AR-HCFs) and their role in shaping the future of optical systems. Praised for their ultra-low latency, low loss, and minimal nonlinearity, AR-HCFs have captured the attention of both academia and...

The unprecedented growth of AI models’ size and complexity made interconnecting XPUs a de facto standard for improving accelerator performance and unlocking a shared pool of memory and compute resources, putting immense pressure on the backend – also known as the scale-up &ndash...

The exponential growth in AI computing demand is pushing the limits of traditional networking architectures. While per-GPU computational power continues to advance, physical and thermal constraints increasingly challenge the scalability, reliability, cost, and efficiency of current...

As the demand for resilient, intelligent, and perceptual optical infrastructure continues to grow, fiber sensing and in-service network tomography are emerging as a promising path toward achieving comprehensive visibility—not only of the fiber network itself, but also of the physical...

Optical computing has resurged with a promise of enhancing the performance of conventional electronic systems in terms of energy efficiency, low latency and computation throughput by offering low-loss transmission, wide bandwidth, and various multiplexing schemes for parallel computation. We...

Initially proposed for datacenter interconnect applications, coherent pluggable modules are increasingly finding use throughout the network, as network operators seek to leverage them to save cost and power. In the set of emerging 1.6 Tb/s standards, we see coherent pluggable standards defined...

Quantum technologies are poised to revolutionize computing, sensing, and security — but unlocking their full potential hinges on a fundamental rethinking of networking itself. As quantum...

Artificial intelligence? Generalized intelligence? Superintelligence? Delivering on this promise requires ever larger models, enormous training datasets, and millions of GPUs. Distributed training enables workloads to be spread over large geographic regions, separated by hundreds or even...

Optical technologies are a key enabler but also a main contributor to the cost and complexity of telecommunications infrastructure, both for fixed and mobile access networks. This workshop aims to explore the commercial potential of optical connectivity solutions in the rapidly evolving landscape...

CPO has been an exotic communication paradigm for over a decade now, and now appears to be in the early stages of deployment by a few large companies and a few start-ups. The integration of CPO...

Multi-core fiber (MCF) is a promising solution to address the capacity limits in current optical networks. While MCF technologies are already gaining traction in submarine systems, their commercial viability for high-density terrestrial networks still must be proven. This workshop will focus...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to rapidly transform the telecommunications sector. This workshop will explore the added value and challenges of AI for telecom operators across key domains and across the lifecycle of the network. Examples of use cases to be discussed include AI-assisted...