ECOC 2024 MARKET FOCUS AWARDS
Michael Lebby, CEO at Lightwave Logic, accepts the Most Innovative Product ECOC 2023 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 2024 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. Winners will be announced live at the Product Focus Theatre at ECOC Exhibition on Tuesday 24th September. Good luck to this year’s nominees! ECOC 2024 EXHIBITION INDUSTRY AWARDS In conjunction with Optical Connections
AWARD CATEGORIES 2024 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
2023 ECOC EXHIBITION INDUSTRY AWARD WINNERS Best Fibre/Fibre Component Product Award: Ram Photonics Data Centre Innovation/ Best Product Award: Marvell Most Innovative Product – Pon/5g/FTTx Award: Huawei Technologies Optical Transport Award: China Mobile Winners in the sub-category awards included Ciena, for WaveLogic 6; Keysight, for its multiport test solution; Coherent for its 200Gbps Pam4 chip; Infinera for its ICTR- 64 TROSA; and Lightwave Logic for its Hybrid PIC platform . A key criterion for the Post Deadline Awards is world class products and technology. Results need to demonstrate that the product or technology is clearly state-of-the-art and best-in-class. The winners will be announced live at the exhibition in the Product Focus Theatre on Tuesday 24th September.
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-100 Tbps capacities in switches and routers. POST DEADLINE AWARDS At Market Focus we attract the world’s leading technology companies to submit entries for the prestigious Market Focus Awards. In 2023, we noticed that many companies developing the last products, either announced their products at the ECOC Exhibition, or released information on them via press releases just a few days before the ECOC Exhibition started. Starting in 2024, the Awards Committee has established a new competition of Post Deadline Awards where applicants can submit their entries in two broad value-chain categories: • Optical materials, components, packages, modules etc. • Optical Systems, networks, standards, architecture etc.
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.
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