CONTENTS
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Industry News
John Williamson The Automation Ultimatum?
STAYING IN CONTROL
11 Ellen Manning 14 Radha Nagarajan Full Fibre Rollouts 16 George Malim 18 Peter Dykes 20 David Chen 22 Peter Dykes 24 Eugene Park 26 Antony Savvas 30 Giovana Labegalini Fibre Connectivity 32 Peter Dykes OFC Preview 34 Peter Dykes 35 Product News Fibre Densification
Welcome to the Spring 2020 issue of Optical Connections. The fibre optic communications industry is without doubt in a period of great innovation and change, with new techniques being developed for component manufacture, high-speed transmission and infrastructure rollout. Much has been discussed and written about those areas, however, less attention, in the media at least, has been given to how such increasingly complex networks are managed and controlled. The fact is, traditional OSS/BSS (Operational/Business Support Systems) do not offer the same degree of control and flexibility required by fibre optic networks as they did for traditional copper-based infrastructure. In this issue, experienced technology writer George Malim takes a look at the new approaches to BSS and assesses what fibre providers need from such systems. On the OSS side, regular contributor Antony Savvas looks at how the latest deployment trends can deliver improved monitoring over increasing numbers of data points to deliver a better overall performance for network organisations. In addition, veteran journalist John Williamson notes that in the scramble to remain competitive, or indeed to actually stay in business long term, many optical network connectivity providers and service operators worldwide are investing heavily in network automation ideologies, solutions and systems. We also talk to Ciena’s VP, portfolio and engineering Kailem Anderson, about the recent purchase of Centina, aimed at expanding Blue Planet’s assurance capabilities by collecting and collating fault, event, and performance data from multiple vendors and network layers. In other features, Inphi’s CTO, Interconnect Radha Nagarajan, discusses how to enable a seamless transition to 400G DCI infrastructure and Eugene Park, senior technical marketing manager at Acacia Communications examines the possibility of standardising 400G transceivers using OPENZR+. Also, David Chen, CTO at Go!Foton, explains how the company is taking on the challenge fibre densification is creating for physical connectivity and Giovana Labegalini, business development manager at HUBER+SUHNER, discusses the role of fibre in supporting IoT and 5G. The Spring issue of Optical Connections also features the usual news and four pages of the very latest products from leading manufacturers in the fibre optics industry and, being the first issue of the new year, we take this opportunity to wish our supporters, advertisers and of course, our readers, a prosperous and safe 2020.
Enabling a seamless transition to 400G DCI
BSS For Optical Networks
Addressing The Skills Shortage
The View From Ciena
The Rise Of OPENZR+
OSS For Optical Networks
FTTH Council Europe Preview
Peter Dykes Contributing Editor, Optical Connections
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