Optical Connections Magazine Autumn 2023

ECOC 2023 MARKET FOCUS AWARDS

Helen Xenos, Ciena’s Sr Director, Solutions Marketing, accepts the ECOC 2022 Most Innovative Product Award

Launched in 2020, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the event, ECOC introduced the ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards in conjunction with Optical Connections. The awards return for 2023 and once again emphasise technology and product commercialisation; they highlight significant achievements in advancing the business of optical communications, transport, networking, fibre-based products, photonic integration and related developments. Congratulations to this year’s winners! ECOC 2023 EXHIBITION INDUSTRY AWARDS In conjunction with Optical Connections

AWARD CATEGORIES 2023 AWARD FOR BEST FIBRE/ FIBRE COMPONENT PRODUCT Fibre and its connectivity are among the forefront of optical communications technologies. This award identifies technology, product, or process innovations that distinguishes and/ or drives lower cost, improve ease of installation, improve reliability, increase connectivity density and scalability. Innovative fibre designs, fibre management systems, fibre adapters, trays, modules and connection systems. AWARD FOR DATA CENTRE INNOVATION/ BEST PRODUCT Broad based. Patch panels, switches, transceivers, servers, fibre, etc. Demonstrate lower cost, lower power consumption, thermal management commercial viability. Innovative packaging/ line card and co-packaging solutions. SW solutions that increase security efficiency and can help reducing footprint and power consumption. AWARD FOR MOST INNOVATIVE PON/5G/FTTX PRODUCT This should be broad-based. Fibre, connectivity, installation, transmission gear, high speed, environmental design, etc. HW and SW solutions to increase bandwidth capacity, its management and overall scalability.

AWARD FOR OPTICAL TRANSPORT

2022 ECOC EXHIBITION INDUSTRY AWARD WINNERS

Optical networking continues to focus on higher capacity to lower transmission cost. Higher speed, modulation/coding, longer reach, higher wavelength density, multiplexing schemes. Innovative use of electronics and software to enable more competitive photonics solutions in the network. Advanced designs that permit for example: longer reach, higher capacity with fault tolerant, error correcting, dispersion management system design. Use of higher performance optical components and co-packaging designs to enable multi-100s Tbps capacities in switches and routers. AWARD FOR MOST INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS – 5 SUB-CATEGORIES Looking across the industry—what new product is driving change in its respective market segment? What’s timely and helping to increase the use of optics? Metrics would include design features that are photonics, electronics, thermal, mechanical, chemical, environmental

Optical Transport Award: Source Photonics

Innovative FTTx Product Award: Source Photonics

Most Innovative Product Award: Ciena

Optical Integration (SiPh and/or other) Award: Coherent Data Centre Innovation Best Product Award: Lumentum Best Fibre/Fibre Component Product Award: Lumenisity Limited

and carbon footprint based. Most Innovative Pluggable

Transceiver/Co-Packaged Module Most Innovative Test Equipment Most Innovative Photonic Component Most Innovative Chip-Scale Packaging/Optical Sub Assembly Most Innovative Hybrid Pic/Optical Integration Platform

Nominations will be considered and voted on by the Market Focus Committee, which reviews the progress of advanced technologies from research to commercialisation including volume production as well as new and innovative products. Winners will be announced live at the Product Focus theatre live at ECOC Exhibition on Tuesday 3rd October, from 11:40

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