Optical Society of America - Exhibit Brochure 2008 - (Page 3)

Featured speakers TUeSDAY, febrUArY 26 MAtt BRoss Chief Technology Officer, BT Group See www.ofcnfoec.org for updated abstract information. rates. Examples include monolithic transceivers that are widely tunable and operate at 40 Gb/s rates, optically integrated wavelength selective switches enabling multi-degree mesh-ROADMs, and fieldtested PICS with 10 wDM channels operating at 10 Gb/s each. There are also highly promising advances in the use of sophisticated modulation formats, such as multi-level PSK in conjunction with receiverside digital signal processing. System research experiments using polarization-multiplexed DQPSK HERWiG KoGELNiK Adjunct Photonics Systems Research Vice President, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent have demonstrated long-haul transmission at a record capacity of 25 Terabits/sec per fiber, and are exploring the cost-effective transmission of 10wDM channels each carrying 100 GbEthernet traffic. In the market, we note the strong resurgence of the construction of undersea fiber systems in the Pacific, and the large-scale deployment of fiber to the premise, FTTP, now reaching millions of users and providing the potential for broadband services such as GbEthernet to the home and business. perspectives on optical communications Nearly 1 terameter (1,000 million kilometers) of optical fibers are now deployed around the globe, providing a high-capacity network infrastructure for the world’s now dominant data traffic, which continues to double its volume every year. The customers of this fiber network include more than one billion Internet users who continue in their demands for newer and broader bandwidth services. In response, lightwave R&D has advanced the capacity of long-haul fiber transmission systems by a factor of 100 since the wDM revolution that started a little more than 10 years ago, and continues to explore the increased networking flexibility of wDM. There is strong progress in the technology of components and optical integrated circuitry that promises to further reduce networking costs and enable transmission and switching at higher data BoB MEtcALfE General Partner, Polaris Ventures toward terabit Ethernet At the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1978, Robert Metcalfe helped build a 150 Mbps optical Ethernet, which was amazing given that transcontinental links of the Internet core then ran at 50 Kbps. In 2008, 30 years later, Metcalfe will talk not just about how we got to a 10 Gbps Ethernet (10GbE), but also about how we are going to get to a 40, 100 and even a 1,000 Gbps Ethernet, which he named the Terabit Ethernet (TbE). REgISTER TODAY AT WWW.OFCNFOEC.ORg http://www.ofcnfoec.org http://www.ofcnfoec.org

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