CONTENTS
THE FUTURE IS FIBRE Welcome to the Autumn 2023 edition of Optical Connections. ECOC is upon us once again offering a wide range of new products and presentations ranging from FTTx rollout to photonics. Most of all, it provides a glimpse of the future of this exciting industry. In this issue, we aim to echo some of the developments taking the industry forward, with thought leadership features by industry experts and leading journalists in the field. The future for fibre optics is bright indeed, but there are still challenges to overcome if the full potential of the technology is to be realised and it continues to keep pace with the ever-increasing demands made upon it. Perhaps one of the greatest challenges is that set by the Shannon Limit, that physical barrier that determines the volume of error-free data that can be sent over a fibre. However, there are ways to get around it as Ribbon Communications’ Jonathan Homa explains. On the subject of speed and capacity, Acacia’s Eug e ne Park looks at the work currently being done in the industry around this new generation of pluggable modules and highlights some of the key features that need to be available before network operators can start taking advantage of them in their networks. In a related topic, Nokia’s Serge Melle writes that with new advances and capabilities enabled by Moore’s Law and new silicon node geometries are allowing higher DSP speeds, lower power consumption, and advanced features.
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Industry News
Co-Packaged Optics John Williamson
12 Beyond Shannon Jonathan Homa 18 High-Performance Embedded Coherent Paul Momtahan 22 Sixth-Generation Super-Coherent Optics Serge Melle 24 The Road To 800g MSA Pluggables Eugene Park 26 EPIC CEO Interview Oleksii Ilchenko 30 Test & Measurement Etienne Gagnon 32 Up In The Air Thomas Ritz 34 Subsea Cables Antony Savvas 36 ECOC 2023 Preview 37 ECOC 2023 Market Focus 39 ECOC 2023 Industry Awards
In addition, we take a look at what’s driving growth in subsea cables, how aerial can speed up rollout in underserved areas and how effective test and measurement can speed rollout by picking up installation errors.
And finally, don’t forget to check out our webinars, including this year’s series which featured Support Systems for Fibre Networks and Sustainability. You can catch up on these and all the previous presentations at opticalconnectionsnews.com/webinars.
Peter Dykes Contributing Editor
40 Angacom Wrap 43 Product Focus
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