Contents
In this issue
ECOC 2013 Exhibition Official Sponsors
Message from the Sponsor
4
Industry News
4-6
The Year in 12 Stories
8
Consumer electronics: the next frontier for optical communications?
12
By Pauline Rigby
Is silicon photonics an industry game-changer?
14
By Roy Rubenstein, Gazettabyte
Guiding Europe through the FTTH funding maze
16
By Hartwig Tauber, FTTH
The dawn of collaborative multi-layer networking
18
By Ori Gerstel, CISCO
Space division multiplexed systems using few mode fibre - EU project MODE-GAP 20 By Dr Ian Giles, MODE-GAP
European industry, are we ready!
22
By Carlos Lee, EPIC
Evolution of signal quality analyzers to multilevel signal generation
24
By Alessandro Messina, Anritsu
100G makes waves in the metro
26
By Pauline Rigby
Spectral manipulation and analysis for advanced optical communication systems 28 By Simon Poole, Finisar
ECOC Exhibition 2013 Official Media Partners
Software-defined optical networks
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- Transforming the optical Layer into a programmable resource By Jorg-Peter Elbers, ADVA
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Reducing operating expense in fibre access networks
30
By Max Penfold, UTEL
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