OFC - INTRODUCTION
The future is Orange County OFC 2016, Anaheim Convention Centre, Anaheim, California. Exhibition: 22 - 24 March | Conference: 20 – 24 March
OFC 2016 will take place at the Anaheim Convention Centre, California In excess of 13,000 attendees and more than 600 exhibiting companies covering 300,000 square feet of space, combined with over 500 contributed papers and 120 invited speakers makes OFC 2016 the largest optical communications platform in the World.
O FC has been one of the must- attend events for converging breakthrough research and innovation in telecommunications, optical networking and fibre optics for more than 40 years, uniting service providers, systems companies, enterprise customers, IT businesses and component manufacturers, with researchers, engineers and development teams from around the world. Managed by The Optical Society (OSA), the event showcases the latest trends and pulses of the entire optical networking and communications industry,
through dynamic business programming, an exposition of more than 600 companies and cutting edge, peer- reviewed research. This year’s attendees will be able to meet with and hear from key industry innovators, with exhibitors including ADVA Optical Networking, Corning Incorporated, Finisar, Fujitsu Network Communications, Huawei Technologies, Lumentum, Mitsubishi Electric and Nokia, and on-floor presentations from Apple, AT&T, Ciena, Google, Microsoft and the Ethernet Alliance. The technical programme, which will include over 500 technical sessions, 10 workshops and
Quick facts: • 600+ exhibitors • 500+ contributed papers • 120+ invited speakers • 16 tutorials • 10 workshops 16 tutorials, will be separated into three core areas: fibres/ devices, systems/sub- systems and networks/
data centres. Hot topics for 2016 are 100G, 400G, data centres, interconnects, NFV, SDN and silicon photonics.
Hot topics: • 100G • 400G • Data Centres • Interconnects
• NFV • SDN • Silicon photonics
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