Tuesday 20th September AM 10:00 - 10:25 Acacia, now part of Cisco Next Generation Coherent Interfaces: Standardized Pluggable vs Proprietary Multi-haul Speaker: Tom Williams Sr. Director of Marketing The industry has made exceptional advancements in coherent implementations that are changing network architectures. Multi-haul solutions offer flexible transmission features, such as adaptive baud rate and probabilistic constellation shaping, as well as performance optimized design implementations that approach the Shannon Limit. Industry standardized pluggable solutions are being widely adopted in high-volume metro applications for both webscale and service provider networks, resulting in the fastest growing segment of the transport market. The presentation will discuss how these trends will influence the design of next generation optics and network architectures. 10:30 - 10:50 Ayar Labs Optical I/O technology to meet future demands of AI Speaker: Terry Thorn, VP of Commercial Operations As AI model sizes continue to grow, models will have 100 trillion or more connections, exceeding the technical capabilities of existing AI platforms. New optical interconnect solutions that enable novel system architectures are needed to address the scale, performance and power demands of the next generation of AI. In this talk, Terry Thorn will present the latest advancements in optical I/O, a new generation of chiplet and multi-wavelength laser solutions that provide dramatically increased bandwidth, at lower latency, over longer distances and at a fraction of the power of existing electrical I/O solutions. His talk will encompass key progress and milestones with the manufacturability, industry demand and ecosystem development for the technology to meet the future demands of AI. 10:55 - 11:15 CW-WDM MSA CW-WDM MSA: Specifications for Multi-Wavelength Advanced Integrated Optics Speaker: Chris Cole, Chair Emerging advanced integrated optics applications, such as high-density co-packaged optics, optical computing, and AI, are moving to 8, 16, and 32 wavelength optical sources. In 2021 the CW-WDM MSA released the first industry specification for multi-wavelength optical laser sources, creating opportunities for transceiver and laser suppliers to develop innovative products. Chris Cole, Chair of the MSA, will share the latest updates from the MSA, including product development progress from the MSA members. 11:20 - 11:40 Infinera Solving Technical and Operational Challenges in pushing Coherent to the Edge Speaker: Dave Welch, PhD. Founder and Chief Innovation Officer With the number of connected devices and bandwidth demand skyrocketing, service providers are faced with the challenges of coping with massive growth in bandwidth, reducing CapEx/OpEx, and simplifying the network. To do this, they need to extend coherent technology to the edge. While coherent technology enables an order of magnitude increase in capacity, extending it to the volume-driven edge (millions of units) requires highly sophisticated designs that combine high performance with cost-effectiveness and high-volume manufacturability. This session 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.
11:45 - 12:05 Juniper Networks / Telecominfraproject Open optical networks: reality and ambition Speaker: Gert Grammel, Chair of OOPT-PSE Working Group As the Internet is changing, open optical networks are emerging from tribal ancestry to a state of being actively deployed. Industry Groups filled the gap, left by standards development organizations in promoting interoperability and consistency of optical solutions. An astounding degree of openness has already been achieved, but much work is still ahead to unleash its true potential. One key driver of this evolution is the OOPT Project group of the Telecominfraproject fostering interoperable blueprints for deployment across the industry. Touching upon the state of the art, ambitious use cases and missing pieces are discussed.
Tuesday 20th September PM
12:25 - 12:45 Sicoya
The ever ongoing discussion on CPO and why coherent is likely going to make it into (some) datacenter soon Speaker: Sven Otte, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, The question whether Co-packaged Optics (CPO) is a paradigm shift from pluggable transceivers and inevitable for next generations of datacenters has been debated over the last two years and it remains unanswered for now. While there is evidence that both small and large optics companies are currently working CPO type products, we believe that co-packaging is rather a technology trend which will gradually materialize and is not a radical replacement of transceivers for a new generation of SERDES speed in Datacenters (DC). In this presentation we will briefly review the trends and provide examples where CPOs might be useful. A more recent and doubtlessly interesting discussion is related to the use of coherent technologies for next generation 1.6T transceivers for DC applications. Coherent detection and the use of QAM/PSK modulation formats is widely adopted in long-haul systems as well as in ZR DCI applications. Stringent laser requirements, complex DSP architectures are seen as cost prohibitive for the use in DC. Moreover, the high error floors and resulting need for powerful FEC’s are not meeting low latency requirements of datacenter operators. However, we believe that both cost and latency requirements can be met if a coherent architecture is developed for the data center specifically and highly integrated Silicon Photonics is used an enabling technology platform. In the presentation we will provide insights into the current state of research on this topic and will provide intelligence why coherent is not the best solution for every DC architecture. 12:50 - 13:10 Omdia Data Center Networks - evolving to CPO or advancing pluggables Speaker: Lisa Huff, Senior Principal Analyst, Optical Components Omdia’s first report on co-packaged optics (CPO) was published in 2021 when the ICP data center optical components market was abuzz with rumors that CPO will be needed for the next generation of switching architecture. Over the last year, there has been a plethora of activity by standardization groups, network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), optical transceiver suppliers, switch silicon providers, and internet content providers (ICPs) themselves regarding CPO. Omdia has carried out extensive market research to determine how the CPO market is progressing and where the opportunities might be. The key drivers for CPO development continue to be the promise of lower power consumption, higher density, and lower cost per bit. However, there are still questions about CPO’s promise versus reality, along with the timeline for its overall development and actual need. This presentation will discuss these questions and possible answers.
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