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Photonic Integrated Circuits
Anna Krzyżanowska, Head of Unit at DG Connect, discussing EU Investment Plan and DSM at the FTTH Conference 2016
Building on the success of the inaugural event in 2016, PIC International aims to connect the makers and the users of integrated circuits. The two hundred expected attendees can expect to hear from over thirty industry figureheads, who will deliver an up-to-date overview of the status of the PIC industry. This year’s presentations are grouped into five key themes which, collectively, o er complete coverage of the Photonic Integrated Circuits industry. The themes are: ● Leveraging PICs in long-haul and metro networks ● Supporting data centre growth ● PIC Platforms ● Optimizing PIC design, manufacturing and packaging ● New markets: sensing and medical International 7 - 8 March, Brussels, Belgium
FTTH Conference 14 – 16 February, Marseille, France
OFC (The Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition) is the largest global conference and exhibition for optical communications and networking professionals, with over 13,000 attendees, 600 exhibiting companies and 1,100 presentations. The 2017 event will cover the following key topics: ● Advanced devices and fibres for high- speed data centre links ● Enabling 5G and IoT through next- OFC 19 – 23 March, Los Angeles, USA FTTH-related topics, with a focus on financing, deployment, marketing and services, in the conference. Conference session highlights include: ● Moving from FTTH to fibre to everything ● Everyone and everything online, everywhere ● Enhancing the fibre investment case ● The costs and benefits of creating a Gigabit Society
3,000 attendees, 120 exhibiting companies, 155 speakers and 11
workshops makes the 14th edition of the FTTH Conference the largest meeting place in the World for broadband stakeholders. Under the theme “Together, building a brighter future”, attendees can expect to see the latest FTTH products and solutions on the exhibition floor and presentations covering a wide range of Data Centre World 15 - 16 March, London, England
generation optical access ● Manufacturing and packaging of photonic and electronic subsystems ● Multiplexing, transmission and switching techniques for Tb/s networks ● New network architectures and applications enabled by SDN and NFV ● Open hardware and software platforms for cloud scale networks ● Optical wireless and visible light communications ● Silicon and integrated photonics for Datacom and telecom
500 speakers delivered content over the two days of Data Center World 2016.
Data Centre World is co-located with four industry events - Cloud Expo Europe, Cloud Security Expo, Smart IoT London and, new to 2017, Big Data World – and promises to provide attendees with an “unrivalled line up of world-class suppliers to the data centre sector” that includes over 500 of the industry’s leading practitioners. This year’s conference will focus on five key themes: ● Data Centres of the Future ● Facilities and Critical Equipment Theatre ● Energy E ciency & Cost Management Theatre ● DCIM & Software Defined Data Centres and Networks Theatre ● Data Centre Design and Build & Physical Security
Over 13,000 attendees are expected for OFC 2017.
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