Running since 2020, the ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards, in conjunction with Optical Connections, emphasise technology and product commercialisation; highlighting significant achievements in advancing the business of optical communications, transport, networking, fibrebased products, photonic integration circuits and related developments. The committee reviewed over 80 nominations for the 2024 awards. Read on for the shortlist for each award. The winners will be announced live in the Product Focus theatre on Tuesday 24th September. ECOC 2024 EXHIBITION INDUSTRY AWARDS In conjunction with Optical Connections
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Most Innovative PON/5G/FTTx product This should be broad-based. Fibre, connectivity, installation, transmission gear, high speed, environmental design, etc.. HW and SW solutions to increase bandwidth capacity, its management and overall scalability. Finalists: • China Mobile f or 50G PON • Infinera for Infinera ICE-X 400G Single Fiber • Source Photonics for Source Photonics 200Gb/s PAM4 based 800G and 1.6T Transceivers Most Innovative Products- 5 sub categories 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. Most Innovative Pluggable Transceiver/Co-Packaged Module Finalists: • Marvell for Marvell® COLORZ® 800 family • Coherent for High Transmitter Optical Output Power, L-Band 800G coherent pluggable DCO module in QSFP DD form factor • Intel Corporation for Intel OCI optical I/O chiplet Most Innovative Test Equipment Finalists: • Yokogawa for Yokogawa AQ6370E Optical Spectrum Analyzer • EXFO for EXFO’s FTBx-88800 Series • EXFO for OPAL-MD probe station for PIC testing Most Innovative Photonic Component Finalists: • NewPhotonics for NPG102 photonic integrated circuit (PIC) • Coherent Corp for Lithographic-aperture VCSEL for 200G PAM4 links • Huawe i for Huawei’s C+L Integrated WSS Most Innovative Hybrid PIC/Opticalintegration Platform Finalists: • Lightwave Logic Inc
Best Fibre/ Fibre Component Product Fibre and its connectivity are among the forefront of 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 fibre designs, fibre management systems, fibre adapters, trays, modules and connection systems. Finalists: • Sumitomo Electric Europe Limited for 2C Z-PLUS Fiber ULL • Teramount LTD for TeraVERSE • Formerica OptoElectronics Inc. for OSFP 800G, QSFP-DD 400Gb and QSFP28 100Gb optical transceivers and sealed optical cables for immersion liquid cooling Data Centre Innovation/Best Product Broad based. To include patch panels, switches, transceivers, servers, fibre, etc. Demonstrate lower cost, lower power consumption, thermal management and commercial viability. Innovative packaging/line card and co-packaging solutions. SW solutions that increase security efficiency and can help reducing footprint and power consumption. Finalists: • Coherent Corp for Coherent Datacenter Lightwave Cross- Connect (DLXTM) • Huawei for Huawei OptiXtrans DC908 Pro • Ciena for Waveserver • Cadence Design Systems for 224G Long-Reach (224G-LR) SerDes PHY IP 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. Finalists: • Huawei for OptiXtrans E6600 series • VIAVI Solutions for VIAVI Solutions ONE LabPro™ Testing Platform • Precision Optical Technologies for Genesee™
• Avicena for µLED-based interconnect technology • POET Technologies for POET Optical Interposer
Winners will be announced live at the Exhibition on Tuesday 24th September
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