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OFC 2015 to Host 550+ Exhibitors Featuring Innovative Advancements in Science and Optical Communications; Global Industry Leaders to Present Business and Technical Programming on Exhibit Floor
OFC
2015, the most comprehensive international event for both science
and the business of optical communications, will host thousands of
attendees from around the globe, more than 550 exhibiting companies from
more than 65 countries worldwide and 800+ technical and business
presentations. In its 40th year, OFC 2015 features all
aspects of optical communications industry. The technical programming,
exhibits and special events are developed for all audiences from systems
and components manufacturers as well as service providers, carriers and
enterprise.
MEDIA REGISTRATION: Media/analyst registration for OFC 2015
can be accessed online.
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Please visit the event website at www.ofcconference.org
for additional information, including travel arrangement details.
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The industry's most comprehensive exhibition features:
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Exhibits from major international companies, such as
Alcatel-Lucent, Avago, Ciena, Coriant, Corning Incorporated, Cisco
Systems, Fujitsu Optical Components, Huawei Technologies USA,
Infinera (News - Alert), Juniper Networks, Mitsubishi International, and more.
Companies include network and test equipment vendors, systems and
component manufacturers, fiber cable and specialty fiber manufacturers.
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Two Exhibit Hall theaters of business programming, featuring
presentations by experts from major global brands and key industry
organizations, including Alcatel-Lucent, China Telecom Beijing
Research Institute, Ciena, Cox Communications, Juniper Networks,
Optical Internetworking Forum, Plastic Optical Fiber Trade
Organization (POFTO) & Information Gatekeepers, Verizon (News - Alert), among others.
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Local Representation from more than 100 California-based
companies on the show floor, including Broadcom, Cisco, Intel (News - Alert), Juniper
Networks and more.
HIGHLIGHTS: Complimentary exposition floor programming
highlights include:
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Market
Watch: Tuesday, 24 March - Thursday, 26 March
This
three-day series of panel discussions explores the latest application
topics and business issues in the field of optical
communications. Presentations and panel sessions feature esteemed
guest speakers from industry, research and the investment community,
including Verizon, Infonetics Research, AT&T Labs and Juniper
Networks. Topics covered this year include the state of the industry,
network convergence verses equipment divergence, monetization of
optical networks, and integrated photonics technologies, among others.
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Service
Provider Summit: Wednesday, 25 March, 8:30 - 9:00
This
program is specifically designed for CTOs, network architects, network
designers and technologists within the service provider and carrier
sector. The Summit includes panel discussions, a keynote presentation,
exhibit time and networking time.
Keynote: Yukio Ito, senior vice president of service
infrastructure, NTT Communications Corporation, Japan. "Carrier's
View on Future Software Defined Networking (SDN)/Network Functions
Virtualizations (NFV) Deployment"
Panel
I: Value and Cost of Multi-Layer SDN
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II: Packet Optical: Does the Bumpy Road lead to a Promising Destination?
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The
Buzz - A Real-time Look at the News and Trends Happening at OFC:
Wednesday, 25 March, 15:30 - 16:30 (Exhibit Hall, Back of 400
Aisle)
Four top industry analysts will share their insights on
OFC show floor buzz, analysis of exhibiting company news announcements
and what they mean to the industry. This unscripted session will give
the audience an exclusive real-time industry insider's perspective
into the most important exhibitor news announcements, trends and show
buzz. Analysts presenting include Dell'Oro Group, Infonetics Research,
Ovum and Strategy Analytics (News - Alert).
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VIP
Industry Leaders Networking Event: Connecting Corporate Executives,
Recent Graduates and Students: Tuesday, 24 March, 12:00 -
13:30 (Exhibit Hall, Back of 600 Aisle)
This session brings
together industry executives from Aurrion, BTI, General Photonics,
Go!Photon, Ibsen Photonics and Nufren to share their business
experience-from how they started their careers and lessons learned
along the way, to using their degree in an executive position. The
program starts with information networking during lunch and then
transitions into "speed meetings"-small, brief visits with each
executive to discuss careers, industry trends or other career topics.
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FTTx
Resource Center: Tuesday, 24 March - Thursday, 26 March (South
Tower, Hall K, Booth #2556)
The FTTx Resource Center will
showcase demonstrations from the central office to the end-user.
Visitors will see a variety of fiber and cable management products,
testing, systems, splicing and new termination techniques for FTTB
installations. The Light Brigade will also offer its "Certified Fiber
to the Home Professional (CFHP)" training program on-site.
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Plastic
Optical Fiber Trade Organization (POFTO) POF Applications Pavilion:
Wednesday, 25 March (South Tower, Hall K, Booth #2717)
POFTO
member companies will demonstrate their products and technologies at
the POF Technology and Applications Pavilion. Attendees can receive
real-time design advice on POF solution from industry experts.
Expo Theater II Programming (South, Exhibit Hall A)
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Next
Generation Tunable Technology and Applications: Tuesday, 24
March, 10:30 - 11:30
Over the last several years the adoption
of tunable based solutions has grown significantly. Innovation at the
chip level has helped drive smaller size, lower power and lower costs
and enabled products such as tunable XFP and tunable SFP+ optical
transceivers. Looking forward, this continues to be an area of
significant investment and innovation with a number of new application
spaces where tunable technology can be applied. This panel will take a
look at some of the latest innovations and applications being worked
on today.
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Ethernet
Roadmaps: Tuesday, 24 March, 11:30 - 12:30
As
Ethernet markets and applications grow, the variety of Ethernet
interfaces continues to proliferate. While many people know about
400GbE being the fastest Ethernet speed being standardized, other
speeds such as 2.5, 5, 25 and 50GbE are being developed for particular
applications. This panel will look at the variety of speeds and their
target applications that are driving these speeds. The roadmap will
discuss the speeds as well as the timing of these speeds and the
underlying technologies.
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Plastic
Optical Fiber (POF) Symposium: Wednesday, 25 March, 10:30 -
13:30
The POF Symposium will cover recent developments in POF
technology, applications, technical standards, industry progress and
new markets. Speakers from around the world will review opportunities
for POF in areas such as Gigabit POF, 4K/8K ultra-high- definition
television (UHDTV), home networking, IPTV (News - Alert), consumer devices, aerospace
& automobile applications, POF sources and sensors, and
high-temperature POF, among others.
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Transport
SDN - Clearing the Roadblocks to Wide-scale Commercial Deployment:
Wednesday, 25 March, 14:00 - 15:00
Recent proof-of-concept
and prototype technology demonstrations have shown progress in the
evolution to commercial SDN deployment. Service providers, network
element providers and software vendors are collaborating in standards
bodies, industry forums and laboratories to identify and address
technical and business challenges standing in the way of even early
market adoption. In this session, members of the Optical
Internetworking Forum (OIF) will review findings from its Global
Transport SDN Demo and outline steps aimed at clearing the roadblocks
to wide-scale transport SDN deployment. Panelists will address
operational aspects, APIs, and the development of virtual transport
network services.
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Optical
Internetworking Forum (OIF) CEI-56G - It's Happening Now:
Thursday, 26 March, 10:30 - 11:30
The OIF CEI-56G interfaces
will provide a new level of density and performance to the networking,
telecom and computing industries. This panel will discuss the
objectives of the five current OIF CEI-56G projects as well as the use
of the three modulation formats: NRZ, PAM-4 and ENRZ in each.
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System
Architectures using OIF CEI-56G Interfaces: Thursday, 26
March, 11:30 - 12:30
The networking industry is faced with
many challenges and this panel will focus on the trend for increasing
aggregate bandwidth and increasing per lane data rates. Increasing per
lane data rates brings in the issues of fundamental reach limitations
due to physical losses. Increasing aggregate data requirements drive
alternative equipment architectures such as the use of mid-board
optics and mid-planes due to density limitations. This panel will
debate the feasibility and practicality of architecture changes that
can be enabled by the OIF's newest developments that are in process
including CEI-56-XSR, CEI-56-VSR, CEI-56G-MR, and CEI-56G-LR.
Expo Theater III Programming (South, Exhibit Hall K)
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Fiber
Optic Safety: Tuesday, 24 March, 11:00 - 12:00
Those
who work with or near fiber optic technology can be exposed to a wide
variety of safety hazards. Fiber optic lasers, amplifiers, fibers, and
chemicals all require a high level of awareness of proper safety
practices. This session reviews fiber handling, laser types and
classifications, and explores the safety issues that are of concern to
anyone who works with or near these elements.
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SDN
Enabled WAN Transport Deployment for Wide Area Cloud Services:
Tuesday, 24 March, 12:30 - 13:45
SDN has generated
significant interest as the most important network evolution, both in
data centers, and more recently in the wide area network (WAN). It has
also become rapidly a very popular discussion topic for transport
network architectures. This panel, organized with the support of IEEE
Cloud Computing Initiative, will discuss how the SDN, cloud services
and transport network deployment come together.
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How
to Realize SDN in Transport Networks: Tuesday, 24 March,
14:00 - 15:00
This presentation panel will provide a "how to"
on SDN transport networks. Specifically, the panelists will provide a
down to earth view on how it works, what we really can do and the
overall operator benefit.
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New
Business Generation with SDN-Based Architectures: Tuesday,
24 March, 15:00 - 16:00
SDN promised a new form of network
control, a way to drive innovations and generate new business at
operators. What is the current state? What can we expect from SDN-
based concepts in future? What benefit will SDN really bring or is SDN
just the buzzword of the year? Panelists will discuss the operational
benefits versus new business generation and key drivers in the optical
transport market.
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Driving
Down Footprint and Power Consumption for High Speed Optical Interfaces:
Tuesday, 24 March, 16:00 - 17:00
Currently high speed
interfaces such as 100G consume significant power and space, up to the
limits of current telecom office infrastructure. Applying current
technology to the hyper growth of internet data is no viable option
for the industry. There is a need for innovative technology greatly
reducing power and space, consumption in the years to come.
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Network
Components in FTTx Systems: Wednesday, 25 March, 11:00 -
12:00
This session will showcase the active and passive
components used for optical multiplexing, bi-directional transmission,
or in point-to-multipoint fiber to the home systems. At the end of
this session, the attendee should be able to identify and explain the
types of active and passive devices used in fiber to the home
installations; compare and contrast the types of optical multiplexing;
outline the basics of transmission equipment such as optical line
terminals and optical network terminals; describe how diplexers and
triplexers function; and summarize fiber to the home wavelength
assignments and bands.
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Workshop
on Photonic Startups and Entrepreneurship: Wednesday, 25
March, 15:30 - 17:00
The photonics industry continues to be a
dynamic market in which innovation takes place at a breathtaking pace.
And much of this innovation is driven by startup companies. While many
people like to start a company and many admire the startups that made
it big, the process of starting a company can be challenging. The aim
of this workshop is to provide practical guidelines and dos and don'ts
by featuring a number of seasoned entrepreneurs who tell their story.
The focus of the presentations is to share key insights and lessons
learned that are useful for any entrepreneur wanting to start a
company or develop a new business.
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Flexi-Grid
Super-Channels and Flexi-Rate/Multi-Modulation Format Transponders:
Thursday, 26 March, 11:00 - 12:00
The concept of flexi-grid
super-channels and flexi-rate interfaces is relatively new to the
industry. There is confusion in the market about the value proposition
and use cases of these new technologies. Further there is the big
question how to realize the benefits of this vastly increased
flexibility without introducing too much complexity into a service
provider's organization. This panel will explain practical
consequences of these new network capabilities and how these new
features will be planned and operated in the SDN world.
About OFC
OFC is
the largest global conference and exposition for optical communications
and networking professionals. For 40 years, The Optical Fiber
Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) has drawn attendees from
all corners of the globe to meet and greet, teach and learn, make
connections and move business forward.
OFC includes dynamic business programming, an exposition of more than
550 companies, and high impact peer-reviewed research that, combined,
showcase the trends and pulse of the entire optical networking and
communications industry. OFC is managed by The Optical Society (OSA) and
co-sponsored by OSA, the IEEE Communications Society (IEEE/ComSoc), and
the IEEE Photonics Society. OFC 2015 takes place March 22-26 at the Los
Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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