Optical Connections Magazine Summer 2025

EVENT FOCUS ANGACOM 2025

THE BUSINESS PLATFORM FOR BROADBAND & MEDIA 3rd – 5th June 2025, Cologne, Germany ANGA COM 2025:

ANGA COM is Europe’s leading business platform for Broadband, Television and Online. It brings together network operators, vendors and content providers on all issues of broadband and media distribution. ANGA COM’s key topics include Gigabit Networks, FTTH, HFC, 5G, OTT, AppTV, Cloud TV, Video Streaming, Artificial Intelligence, Smart City and Smart Home . The last ANGA COM counted more than 480 exhibitors from 35 countries and more than 23,000 participants from over 90 countries. Among the largest exhibitors are leading telecom vendors. The speaker line-up of the conference programme includes C-level representatives of Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Deutsche Glasfaser, Deutsche GigaNetz, Tele Columbus, Unsere Grüne Glasfaser, NetCologne, M-net, ProSiebenSat.1, RTL Television, Amazon Prime Video, UFA, Sky and DAZN . With Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Glasfaser, RTL and a large number of local fiber network operators, the Cologne area is Germany’s leading business hub for broadband and media . About 40 million people live within a radius of only 250 kilometres. Three international airports (Cologne, Dusseldorf and Frankfurt) can be reached in less than one hour. These are unique conditions to showcase our industry to Europe and beyond. The Gigabit Summit, the Media Summit and the Fiber Summit are the highlights

of the conference programme which will kick off with a keynote speech by Hendrik Wüst, Premier of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. This will be immediately followed by the Gigabit Summit with the CEOs of leading network operators and the Federal Network Agency on the most important question of the coming months “What needs to change in Germany after the election?”. The first highlight of the media programme is an exclusive interview with Dr. Katrin Vernau, Director General of WDR since 1 January 2025. She will answer the question “Quo Vadis WDR?”. The international agenda includes many panel discussions in English and is especially high in the programme section “Technology & Practice” . The technology topics include: • Fiber optics, PON, in-house fibre • Quality of service, low latency, CDN • Network planning, network monitoring • Streaming, video discovery, ad insertion, personalization, monetization • Artificial intelligence, data protection, resilience, sustainability • HFC networks, DOCSIS • Open access • Civil engineering The panel discussions and presentations will be held in the conference centre or on the Innovation Stage, an open presentation stage directly in the exhibition hall. All exhibition visitors have free access to the programme on the Innovation Stage. In addition to the panels and presentations in English, 16 panels of the strategy programme (all panels in Room 1) will be simultaneously translated into English, including the keynote speech by Hendrik Wüst, Premier of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Gigabit Summit with the CEOs of leading network operators, the Fiber Summit entitled “How far will we get with FTTH in 2025?” and the top-level “Media Summit: Content, Streaming, Transformation”. Dr. Peter Charissé, CEO ANGA COM said, “ANGA COM will be more attractive than ever for international visitors this year. We are looking forward to

welcoming our conference partners from the Netherlands, France, USA and United Kingdom.” The exhibition is also on course to break records with over 500 exhibitor registrations from over 40 countries and bookings for more stand space than last year. All companies already registered for ANGA COM 2025 can be found in the exhibitor list and the floor plan. Registration for conference and exhibition visitors is possible online (there will be no ticket sales on-site), VAT is already included in all prices : • Tickets for the exhibition are available for €25 . • Participation in the conference programme is possible from €140 . • A season ticket for the conference including the evening event ANGA COM Night on 3 June at the famous “Rheinterrassen” and with a view of the Dom Cathedral is available for only €390 .

ANGA COM Night at the famous “Rheinterrassen”.

• On the third day, Thursday, 5 June 2025 , participation in the exhibition and conference programme is completely free of charge . ANGA COM is organized by ANGA Services GmbH, a subsidiary of ANGA The Broadband Association . Members of the association are the leading companies of the German broadband business (including Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Deutsche Glasfaser) who supply more than 40 million consumers with telecommunications services in Germany.

ANGA COM 2025 will attract even more visitors this year.

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