The Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) exhibition took place from 7-9 March. Here is a round-up of just some of the technology and product announcements, demonstrations and industry news to expect at the event.
The European start-up’s commercial quantum solution is designed to provide ease of installation, reliability and resiliency for quantum key distribution for intra-city networks.
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The achievement was part of a live network trial that marks first field trial for Nokia’s sixth generation super-coherent photonic service engine, PSE-6s.
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The XT1600 optical engine is currently being sampled and has a total capacity of 1.6Tb/s optical transmit and 1.6Tb/s optical receive carried over 16 fibre pairs.
The network will cover more than 30,000km of fibre across North-west India.
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Researchers from the University of Tsukuba used an artificial lotus effect to create liquid droplets that act like tunable lasers and can retain stability for up to a month.
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The new 400G network will leverage transport equipment from Ciena, and is designed to bring high-speed connectivity throughout Maryland.
More than 30 companies will participate in this year’s demo across: 400ZR; co-packaging architectures, CEI-112G & CEI-224G and CMIS implementations.
Photonics chips use up to 10-times less power and can be 20-times faster than electrical chips, while processing far more information
iPronics, a photonics start-up based in Valencia, has delivered its first shipments of a plug-and-play, programmable photonic microchip.
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The UK fibre provider has selected passive muxes paired with DCP-F amplifiers and 400G optics from Smartoptics for the upgrade.
Virgin Media O2 has been laying the groundwork for full network automation in the future (credit: Virgin Media O2)
New tools and processes do more of the heavy lifting in managing networks to deliver seamless connectivity, but suppliers are still seeking the Holy Grail of full automation, finds Benjamin Skuse
The world is poised for 10-gigabit networks, and advances in DOCSIS 4.0 solutions could bring us closer to this reality, finds Alice Jensen
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A look at the market for optical transport equipment, including the vendors of some of the latest hardware products and solutions.
Abigail Williams looks at how European network developers are overcoming the challenges they face in expanding fibre deployments
Charlie Cassie highlights the latest recruitment trends that fibre network providers, owners and operators need to think about if they are looking to hire great telecoms talent
Colin Yates highlights the benefits of digital data capture for telecoms engineers, installers and other field-based professionals
