Autumn 2020 - Optical Connections Magazine

ECOC INDUSTRY AWARDS

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ECOC Exhibition, we have introduced a number of prestigious industry awards, in conjunction with Optical Connections. The fibre optics industry is at a fascinating stage of development at present, with new innovations unveiled on an almost monthly basis. The ECOC awards will celebrate the significant achievements that have been made in advancing the business of optical communications, transport, networking, fibre-based products, photonic integration circuits and related developments. CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF ECOC WITH THE ECOC EXHIBITION INDUSTRY AWARDS 8 December, 2020 In conjunction with Optical Connections

INNOVATIVE 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

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. MOST INNOVATIVE PRODUCT 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 and carbon footprint based. BEST FIBRE/FIBRE COMPONENT PRODUCT Fibre and its connectivity are among the forefront 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.

Nominations will be considered by the committee and the awards will be made in conjunction with Optical Connections and ECOC Market Focus sessions. Winners will be announced at ECOC 2020 in Brussels on 8 December after extensive review, voting, and committee selection. The presentation will take place in the newly launched Product Focus Theatre on Tuesday 08 December at 12pm . 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.

OPTICAL INTEGRATION (SIPH AND/OR OTHER)

Photonic integration has been identified as a path to lower cost, lower power consumption, and higher throughput. Silicon photonics has been in the centre of this debate. This aware is technology agnostic. We are looking for technologies that integrate (hybrid or monolithic) numerous optical functions to increase capacity while lowering cost and power consumption. A critical part of this award is revenue—the product is shipping for revenue. OPTICAL TRANSPORT AWARD 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

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