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Now in its sixteenth year, the Market Focus theatre has continued to be one of the highlights of the ECOC Exhibition and a key place to get up-to-date knowledge from across the industry and discover the latest commercial trends in optical communications. This year we have streamlined our programme to cover the whole value chain of technologies, from optical components to optical network providers that span both telecommunications as well as data centre and data communication media services.
The morning session closes out with a report on the latest developments including optimised laser design, wafer fab process technology trends, device parametric performance and reliability from Andy McKee from Sivers Photonics and in our final session at 14:30 we hear from Roshene McCool from Corning Incorporated with a discussion on how optical fiber and cable are evolving to deliver capacity with highly parallelized solutions from the data center to submarine applications. Tuesday 20th September Tuesday morning Day two is jam-packed with fifteen presentations from a wide range of industry professionals. Opening at 10;00 the morning session will focus on Modules, sub-systems, connectors and line-cards and begins with Tom Williams of Acacia, now part of Cisco, reveals how the latest trends will influence the design of next generation optics and network architectures, followed by a look at the latest advancements in optical I/O, a new generation of chiplet and multi-wavelength laser solutions from Terry Thorn, Ayar Labs. Chris Cole of CW-WDM MSA joins us at 10:55 to share the latest updates from the MSA, including product development progress from the MSA members and Dave Welch of Infinera covers innovative and proven design principals of building blocks such as TROSA and DSP to solve technical and operational challenges in pushing coherent technology to the Edge. We then focus on the reality and ambition of open optical networks with Gert Grammel, Juniper Networks.
The morning session draws to a close with Sven Otte of Sicoya as he provides insight and intelligence asto why coherent is not the best solution for every DC architecture, and Lisa Huff of Omdia questions CPO’s promise versus reality, along with the timeline for its overall development and actual need. Our final session of the morning is from EXFO’s Aldo Gutierrez at 13:15 explaining how a unique innovation in end-to-end transceiver testing now enables fully automated optoelectrical characterization of transceiver. Tuesday afternoon Afternoon sessions move to a focus on Networking, systems, DC, disaggregated solutions and software with an opening session at 14:05 from Scott Wilkinson from Cignal AI and a review of the drivers and successes of different form factors (QSFP- DD/OSFP vs. CFPx), different features (ZR vs. ZR+ vs. 0dBm), and our forecast for growth. Harald Graber from Effect Photonics then joins us to address the edge computing and data centre infrastructure market with coherent optical SoCs. We welcome Eric Maniloff from Ciena at 14:55 to explore the options for coherent optics inside the data center, followed by Andy Bechtelsheim of Arista to review the status of 1.6T optics. II-VI’s Vipul Bhatt joins us to examine the technology and business trade-offs that confirm the direct-detect and coherent technology equilibrium and make some predictions about how this new- but-old equilibrium will shape this exciting market. The afternoon session comes to a close with
2022 Timetable
Monday 19 September The opening morning of Market Focus is focuses on Components, ICS, PICS and Fibre and the sessions kicks off at 12:00 with Michael Lebby and John Zyskind from Lightwave Logic as they discuss the latest results on foundry fabricated stable and reliable EO polymers for integrated photonics platforms along with a review of the latest work in photonics roadmaps on both the integrated photonics (PIC) level as well as PIC packaging level. SiFotonics Technologies’ Rang-Chen Yu joins us at 12:25 to present optical transceiver module solutions with silicon photonics for wider scale applications, followed by a look at the advantages of TFLN solutions and a discussion on the scalability and commercial viability of this high-speed and low power integrated platform from Christian Reimer of HyperLight Corporation. We welcome Michael Geiselmann from LIGENTEC at 13;15 who will present an overview of low loss PICs based on silicon nitride and application areas in LiDAR, Quantum and sensing, followed by a review of the current state-of-the art in opto-electronic probing, measurement instrumentation, and techniques for reliable and high-speed testing from Iñigo Artundo of VLC Photonics.
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