C ontinuing the celebration of achievements in advancing the business of optical communications, transport, networking, fiber-based products, photonic integration circuits and related developments, the ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards returned for 2021. The committee once again reviewed the progress of advanced technologies from research to commercialization including volume production as well as new and innovative products. The 2021 winners were announced live at the ECOC Exhibition in September. ECOC 2021 INDUSTRY AWARDS In conjunction with Optical Connections
Congratulations to our 2021 winners:
• Optical Transport Award to Ciena for Liquid Spectrum • Best Fibre Component Product to Lumenisity for NANF CoreSmart cable • Most Innovative Product/Optical Integration to II-VI for II-VI OIF Type (2) IC-TROSA • Optical Integration Award to Lightwave Logic • Data Center Innovation/Best Product to Source Photonics for their family of industry leading 800G OSFP and QSFP-DD pluggable solutions.
Awards in 2022 The Awards will return in 2022, further details of the categories can be found below. Entry criteria will be released in Spring 2022.
Data Centre Innovation/ Best Product Broad based. Patch panels, switches,
Innovative FTTx Product This should be broad-based. Fiber,
Most Innovative Product Looking across the industry—what new product is driving change in its respective market segment. What’s timely and helping to increase the use of optics. Metrics would include design features that are photonics, electronics, thermal, mechanical, chemical, environmental and carbon footprint based.
connectivity, installation, transmission gear, high speed, environmental design, etc.. HW and SW solutions to increase bandwidth capacity, its management and overall scalability Optical Transport Award Optical networking continues to focus on higher capacity to lower transmission cost. Higher speed, modulation/coding, longer reach, higher wavelength density, multiplexing schemes. Innovative use of electronics and software to enable more competitive photonics solutions in the network. Advanced designs that permit for example: longer reach, higher capacity with fault tolerant, error correcting, dispersion management system design. Use of higher performance optical components and co-packaging designs to enable multi-100s Tbps capacities in switches and routers.
transceivers, servers, fiber, etc. Demonstrate lower cost, lower power consumption, thermal management commercial viability. Innovative packaging/line card and co-packaging solutions. SWsolutions that increase security efficiency and can help reducing footprint and power consumption.
Best Fiber/ Fiber Component Product
Optical Integration (SiPh and/or other)
Fiber and its connectivity are among the forefront optical communications technologies. This award identifies technology, product, or process innovations that distinguishes and/ or drives lower cost, improve ease of installation, improve reliability, increase connectivity density and scalability. Innovative fiber designs, fiber management systems, fiber adapters,
Photonic integration has been identified as a path to lower cost, lower power consumption, and higher throughput. Silicon photonics has been in the center of this debate. This aware is technology agnostic. We are looking for technologies that integrate (hybrid or monolithic) numerous optical functions to increase capacity while lowering cost and power consumption. A critical part of this award is revenue—the product is shipping for revenue.
trays, modules and connection systems.
Winner interviews available to view Tuesday 2nd November
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