Tuesday 28th June- Pre- conference Workshops and Training

11.00-14.00 14.30-17.30

Ciena Logo (operator only flash)

Your network as an automated, on-demand strategic asset

Exploring how to automate real multivendor networks with SDN

Delivering an SDN/NFV enabled on-demand, programmable network

Plus Customer guest speaker case study

Nokia Logo (operator only flash)

Enabling our connected lives with innovations in Optical Networking

Coherent Scale and Flexibility with the Photonic Service Engine 2

Massive scale and improved efficiency with Multi-Layer OTN

The Converged Service-Ready Network –

CRAN Transformation enabled by Mobile WDM Fronthaul – Guest speaker: Verizon Wireless

LightBrigade Training Seminar – (all attendees) Understanding Emerging Technologies in 100G Fibre Optic

Systems

Exploring how to deliver lower latency alongside greater

reliability, flexibility, and scalability

Each attendee receives a certificate & DVD at the end of

the course

Wednesday 29th June Thursday 30th June Friday 1st July 08.40-10.45

PLENARY: DELIVERING OPTICAL NETWORK EVOLUTION AND DIFFERENTIATION

Relating Network Deployments to the Revenue Generating Services How to Handle the Future Capacity Crunch as an Optical Industry Centre Challenges for an Incumbent Network Operator until 2020 Building Next Generation Optical Access Solutions – 21st Century Optical

09.00-11.00 PLENARY:OPTICAL DATA CENTRE INTERCONNECT What are the market drivers for Optical DCI? DevOps Friendly Data Centre Interconnect – the Choices and Applications

Google’s Data Centre Network

Optical Networking Opportunities in the Access, Metro and Long-haul Comparing the Differing Types of DCs and their Interconnections Needs

09.00-12.50 PLENARY: TRANSPORT SDN & NFV– WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR OPTICAL NETWORKING? What do T-SDN & T-NFV mean to an Operator? Elastic 400G Multi-layer Networking Operator Challenges in Softwarising Optical Networks Delivering Dynamism in the Optical Layer Addressing the Real World Challenges of Migrating to Optical Infrastructures to be based on SDN & NFV Optical Networks Security Controls

11.45-13.20 NGON SERVICE DELIVERY: INVESTIGATING METRO OPTICAL NETWORK NEEDS Early Deployments 200 & 400G Implementation of 200G Optical Networks from Data Centre Evolving the Metro Optical Layer with Compact Pluggables

11.45-13.20 OPTICAL DCI CONFERENCE: INTER OPTICAL DCI – NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE & APPLICATIONS FOCUS Data Centre Infrastructure and Design Which applications will Drive Higher DCI requirements? DCI Transport Techs Comparisons

12.00-13.20 EVOLVING TOWARDS 400G & 1TBITS Specifications for all Modulations

Terabit Transmission & the Software

Configurable Optics

400G Trial Case Studies & Commercial Deployment

12.00-13.20 OPTICAL DCI CONFERENCE: INTRA OPTICAL DCI -COMPONENT & MODULE FOCUS Applying Intra Optical DCI Optical Connectivity in Hyperscale Data Centres Cost Effective Transceiver Solution for

Intra Data Centre

14.15-18.00 INVESTIGATING LONGHAUL & SUBMARINE OPTICAL NETWORKS Building networks spanning both terrestrial

& submarine

OPGW Network over Power Grids Discussing Intercontinental Networks Future Proofing Your Optical Network

14.15-18.00 OPTICAL DCI CONFERENCE: INTER OPTICAL DCI – CAPACITY & CONNECTIVITY SCENARIOS Longhaul Inter Optical DCI Solutions Inter Optical DCI – Metro Optical Interconnecting Distributed DCs INTER OPTICAL DCI – SERVICE DELIVERY Optical Network Evolution for DCI Applications Traffic Planning, Sustainability and Energy Costs?

14.15-18.00 OPTIMISING CAPACITY & REACH WITH ROADMS, FLEXGRID & SUPER CHANNELS Migration Towards Agile Transparent WDM ROADM Infrastructure Novel Universal Coherent pluggable transceivers PACKET OPTICAL INTEGRATION & CONVERGENCE Multivendor Interoperability in IP &

Optical Data

IP/MPLS as the Client Layer for POC

14.15-18.00 DEBATING INTRA DATA CENTRE

TECHNOLOGY

Shaping the Future of Optical DCI

Technologies Powering 100G & 400G Transceivers in DCs Integrated Photonics for DCI PHOTONIC INTEGRATION INSIDE THE DATA CENTRE Cost Effective Datacom, Metro and

Long Haul Applications

Photonic Integration Alternatives: InP,

Silicon, etc

13.40-16.10 EVOLVING NEXT GENERATION OPTICAL ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES– 5G, BACKHAUL (CWDM & DWDM), FRONTHAUL & NG PON Ovum Survey results

Fronthaul Network Segment on the 5G Road- Hybrid Optical WDM

Access & Wireless Technologies

Pushing Fibre Upfront: NG Optical Networking Access Technologies Enabling 5G, Backhaul, Fronthaul & PON Evolution SmartCity Applications Driven by Synergy of Optical DC & Fibre Grid Network Supporting Small Cells Multi-core and Few-mode Fibre Technology for Space Division Multiplexing Transmission

18.00 Drinks Reception and Party 18.00 Drinks Reception 16.20 End of Conference

07.50 Registration Opens and Networking Coffee Break

08.40 Welcome & Business Card Exchange

Day One, Wednesday 29th June

DELIVERING OPTICAL NETWORK EVOLUTION AND DIFFERENTIATION - HANDLING THE FUTURE CAPACITY CRUNCH AS AN OPTICAL

INDUSTRY

08.40 Relating Network Deployments to the Revenue Generating Services they can Enable (Analyst Set the Scene flash)

Traffic growth for the next 3 years (input, drivers)

Progressing through 200G to 400G and beyond

Use of white boxes in optical networks

Converging technologies in hardware and software Andrew Schmitt, Founder, Cignal AI

08.50 How to Deliver Optical Network Evolution and Differentiation and Handle the Future Capacity Crunch as an Optical Industry Centre (DC Operator flash)

What Facebook is doing with its global Optical Network

Connecting global mega Data Centres with a mesh structure

Facebook’s goals and how fast they see this growing

Discussing application drivers such as video sharing and virtual reality Steve Grubb, Global Optical Engineering, Facebook

09.10 Building the Future-Proof End to End Intelligent Transport Network

Using terabit super-channels to scale capacity in the long haul and metro core

Integrating packet-optical, instant bandwidth and fast protection technologies to increase network efficiency

Adding programmability via SDN for multi-layer automation

Delivering dynamic capacity from Layer 3 down to Layer 0

Delivering application-specific solutions across the network spanning subsea, long-haul, metro and Data Centres Geoff Bennett, Director, Solutions & Technology, Infinera

09.30 Challenges for an Incumbent Network Operator until 2020 (Operator flash)

Traffic growth

Possible strategies to cope with traffic growth

Network transformation to All-IP

Starting Virtualisation of Networks

Common control Plane with SDN

Driving Down OPEX costs by reducing the number of sites Sascha Vorbeck, Head of Network Development Core, Deutsche Telekom

09.45 OTN to CO, Key Implementation of Network Simplification

Challenges on transport network brought by 4K/8K, 5G and cloud service

What is future-orient specific network architecture like? Jeffery Gao, President of Transport Product Line, Huawei

10.05 Your Network as an Automated, Efficient On-Demand Strategic Asset

Bandwidth growth continues, while end users are looking for flexible virtualised IT applications bundled with Ethernet and optical WAN services, with fast service add/change and self service programmability

The next wave of capacity growth with on-demand service attributes can be delivered with an SDN/NFV enabled programmable network Joe Marsella, EMEA CTO, Ciena

10.25 Building Next Generation Optical Access Solutions – 21st Century Optical - What is next? (Scenario Discussion flash )

Discussing the behavioural change of customers regarding data usage

Financial business case drivers for swapping out copper to fibre

What are the long-distance network, metro network, data centre and energy efficiency attributes needed to support Gigabit Cities & IoT?

How are the Telcos responding to the data centric mindset?

How can operators/service provider leverage their 2 asymmetric worlds (the Routing world and Optical worlds)?

How to drive the innovation cycle want and enable differentiation? Mattias Fridstrom, VP & Head of Technology, TeliaSonera International Carrier Steve Grubb, Global Optical Engineering and Gaya Nagaragan, Network Engineering and Architecture, Facebook Sascha Vorbeck, Head of Network Development Core, Deutsche Telekom Jihad Ibhaiss, CEO - Horizon Technology & Strategic Consultant, Neide Telecom (Operator flash)

10.45 Morning Refreshments, Exhibition Visit, Demos & Speed Networking What is Speed Networking? Speed Networking is an efficient, face-to-face professional networking model similar to “speed dating” that enables participants to make new contacts through one-on-one focused conversations lasting between 2-4 minutes. Speed networking helps you forge new connections during the event. These are informal, fun and highly effective introduction sessions giving you a maximum exposure to a large number of conference participants in the shortest time!

INVESTIGATING METRO, LONGHAUL AND SUBMARINE OPTICAL NETWORK NEEDS

11.45 High Speed Work – Early Deployments 200, 400G (Analyst Set the Scene flash)

INTER OPTICAL DCI – NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE FOCUS Technology Deep Dive into long reach links between physically separate Data Centre locations

Comprehensive economics analysis of metro network evolution to next-gen optical transport

Bulk of services are still 10G, what will metro 100/200G do for 10G price?

When will we see serious growth and is cost still a big factor Andrew Schmitt, Founder, Cignal AI

11.55 Welcome to the 100G Services Era

Flexible, high capacity coherent optics enabling higher rates, longer reaches, and more flexibility at lower cost

The importance of an ultra-scalable switching layer mated to these optics

Ultra wideband photonic transport

Intelligent multi-layer control Kyle Hollasch, Marketing Director – Optical Networking, Nokia

12.15 A Day in the Life of a Carrier CTO Mattias Fridstrom, VP & Head of Technology, TeliaSonera International Carrier (Operator Soundbite flash)

INVESTIGATING METRO OPTICAL NETWORK NEEDS 12.25 Evolving the Metro Optical Layer with Compact Pluggables

Examining the hard choices operators are faced with today when choosing an optical layer architecture

Exploring the technology trends evolution of optical layer functions into compact pluggables

Identifying the advantages, disadvantages and target applications for a optical layer pluggables

Comparing optical layer based on pluggables with traditional approaches based on individual modules or system-on-a-blade

Paul Momtahan, Director of Optical Solution Marketing, Coriant 12.45 Implementation of 200G Optical Networks from Data Centre Interconnect to Metro Regional and Long Haul Applications

Specific 200G products and Engineering rules for different application type

WDM System design evolution to support higher traffic rates on existing 10G/100G routes

Cost optimisation of transport infrastructures to increase network

11.45 Data Centre Infrastructure and Design and where does Optical Transport Fit in? (Analyst Set the Scene & Polling Session flash)

What are DC ops doing, their plans and how building DCs?

Changing architectures in DC Networks

Webscale/CP players are changing the communications landscape and providing growth opportunities in optical networking

Two factors, the CPs are buying DWDM to connect their large scale DCs and also traditional telcos are building DCs themselves and using optical networks for DCI

Long distance – telco – costly – higher order modulation and latency hit Ian Redpath, Principal Analyst, Ovum

11.55 Making 100G/200G Economic for DCI

The traditional approach to DWDM transport is sufficient for many DCI applications

But, DCI transport requirements are rapidly evolving in similar ways to the compute and storage solutions within the data centre– higher speed, more capacity, better space utilisation, lower power consumption and more openness, and these must all be supported while lowering the cost

To meet these requirements, new high capacity DCI optimised transport solutions are required

With these new solutions, it is important that a balance be maintained that also incorporates the best of what we have learned from transport – modularity, pay as you grow, simple operations, resiliency, etc.

Stefan Voll, VP Product Management, Coriant 12.15 Intra and Inter DCI Optical Network Infrastructure Challenges: Requirements, Solutions and Services from Multi-Tenant DC Operator Perspective Rao Lingampalli, Senior Manager, Optical Network Architecture, Equinix

12.35 DCI Enabling Transport Technologies Comparisons (Technology Discussion flash)

Comparing CE, DWDM, OTN, MPLS-TP, DSL, Cable, IP-MPLS

How do distributed DCs work?

profitability Guillaume Crenn, Product Line and Marketing Director, Ekinops

13.05 Deploying and Planning for 200G - Metro 200G and Beyond (Mindshare flash)

What are Operators needs & challenges for 100/200G Metro

Weighing up the performance vs. cost trade-offs for 100/200G

Status of deployments Mervyn Kelly, EMEA Marketing Director, Ciena

Discussing the Optical whitebox and what it means for the industry? Carlos De Lima, Network Architect, Telefonica (Operator flash) Stephane Duproz, Managing Director, Telecity (Operator flash) Mervyn Kelly, EMEA Marketing Director, Ciena Bartek Raszczyk, Network Architect, LINX(IX P) Maurizio Gazzola, Product Line Manager, Cisco Systems Gilles Garcia, Director Wired Business Marketing, Xilinx

13.05 The top 8 Data Centre Interconnect Applications and How Optical Transport Enables them

What are the top 8 optical transport uses for data centre interconnect?

How new optical transport technology and designs enable these important applications

Which industry initiatives will influence future data centre interconnect design and architecture?

Are the requirements different for Internet Content Providers, Communications Service Providers, and Carrier Neutral Providers?

Mannix O’Connor, Director of Technical Marketing, MRV

13.25 Eat with the Experts: Service Providers hosted Lunch Tables We know that hearing someone speak for 30 or 40 minutes might not always provide enough opportunity for your burning questions to be answered, which is why each of your speakers will be on separate tables during this networking lunch break – so you can do just that.

LONGHAUL AND SUBMARINE OPTICAL NETWORK NEEDS

14.15 Building Common Simple Networks Spanning both Terrestrial and

Submarine (Analyst Set the Scene)

Submarine capacity/distance attributes & tradeoffs

Service attributes to be delivered (mesh restoration, latency, SDN enabled

on-demand services

Jimmy Yu, Vice President of Optical Transport Research, Dell’Oro Group

14.25 Case Study OPGW Network over Power Grids

Optical networks built over power grids

HANDLING THE INCREASED CAPACITY IN AND INBETWEEN DATA CENTRES A look into how data centre owners are adapting to cope with the overwhelming need for capacity 14.15 Longhaul Inter Optical DCI Solutions

Longhaul DCI: new network topologies and requirements

Convergence between terrestrial and subsea optical transmission technologies and platforms for unified DC-to-DC connectivity

Seamless optical network design and operation Herve Fevrier, EVP and Chief Strategy Officer, Xtera

14.35 Want an Advanced, Robust Network? Start with Innovative Optical Cables for Capacity, Upgrade, Deployment and Restoration Agility

High fibre density cable innovations simplify future capacity and upgrade

By design fibre drops at few locations – long spans Nilson Machado, Director, Technical Planning – Transport & Fixed Planning, TIM Brasil (Operator flash- Latam Focus) 14.45 Turning Power Grids Equipped With OPGW Cable into Backbone Capacity Networks

Value and benefits of OPGW cables in power grids

Drivers and examples for enabling optical telecom networks over power grids

Key technical enablers for deploying optical networks taking into account specificities of power grid infrastructure

Bertrand Clesca, Head of Global Marketing, Xtera

15.05 Case Study of Installation of an Optical WDM/SDH/PDH Network linking over 70 Power Substations Soufiane Benjillali, Transmission Lead, Réseau de Transport d'Électricité (RTE) (Utility flash) 15.25 Even Fatter Pipes? How Advances in Fibre Design Can Extend Capacity and Reach

Many long-haul network operators around the globe are challenged with achieving longer distances and higher data-rates in a quest to lower overall cost per bit. What are the new options in optical fibre?

Legacy networks are struggling with an aging fibre plant which is resulting in increased operational costs. When is the right time to consider a new fibre-cable deployment?

What can terrestrial network operators learn from the new submarine cable deployments?

Sergejs, Market and Technology Development Manager, Corning Optical Fiber and Cable

15.40-16.30 Afternoon Refreshments & Exhibition Visit

16.30 Discussing Intercontinental Networks (Panel discussion flash)

What percentage of subsea networks has not been upgraded to 100G?

Is undersea is optimised for 100G? Will 400G meet the distance requirement?

planning

Smart cable designs and FastAccess® Technology enable rapid deployment and restoration

Merrion Edwards, Director, Market and Technology Development, Corning Optical Fiber and Cable

14.55 Flexible Datacenter Interconnect and Flexible Optical transport solution with FlexE

How can you reduced and optimized your capex and Opex , by delivering leading edge high end fat pipes (200G/400G/++) to your DC without changing your Optical infrastructure

How do you break the marriage between Ethernet & Optical roadmap in your network ?

Gilles Garcia, Director Wired Business Marketing, Xilinx

15.15 Discussing Inter Optical DCI – Capacity & Connectivity Scenarios(Panel Discussion flash)

How to handle the increased capacity in and between data centres?

How are data centre owners adapting to cope with the overwhelming need for capacity?

The effects of Optical Connectivity in hyperscale DCs Alan Corfield, Manager, Transmission Engineering & Planning, Virgin Media Mannix O’Connor , Director of Technical Marketing, MRV

15.45-16.30 Afternoon Refreshments & Exhibition Visit

What about new undersea fibre?

Chris Towery, Operations Manager, HDR and Submarine Product Line, Corning

Optical Fiber and Cable

Szilard Zsigmond, Principal Product Line Manager Photonic Line Systems,

Amplifiers & Node Configurations, Terrestrial Optical Portfolio & Product Line

Manager, Terrestrial-Subsea Integration, Nokia Andrew Oliviero, Senior Director of Global Product Line Management| Research and Development Optical Fibre, Cable and Connectivity Products, OFS Optics

Bertand Clesca, Head of Global Marketing, Xtera

Amirussyahri Ahmad, Network Architecture & Technology Planning (NATP), Telekom Malaysia Berhad

17.00 Discovering DWDM Fibre Link’s Quality and DWDM Equipment’s Health Care Check

FibreOptic Cable Performance(Span Loss) measuring, and monitoring trend of fibre links attenuation on DWDM Networks, (more than 2000 links)

Monitoring different vendor’s DWDM links on one real map with NE’s actual GPS coordinates. (more than 2000 link)

Making more than 500 DWDM Equipment’s Health Care Check on one platform. (we are working on it to add different vendors to increase the monitored network)

Fatih Mercimek, Optical Transmission Expert & Engin Danışman, Expert Transmission Engineer, Turk Telecom (Operator flash) 17.20 Future Proofing Your Optical Network for Future Data Explosions

Optimisation strategy

CAPEX utilisation

keeping the network ready for future technology & service evolution into the true broadband era

Shahed Siddiqui, Head of Backbone Planning & Optimisation, Network Planning, Technology, Grameenphone (Operator flash-APAC focus) 17.40 Evolution of Core Transport Networks- The UK Core Network and how it is Evolving

Current transport, how new technologies will fit in

Flexgrid and 200G Dave Johnson, Core Network Design Architect, BT(Lead Operator flash)

THE CHANGING AND DEVELOPING LANDSCAPE OF DATA CENTRE INTERCONNECT An analysis of DCI’s future and what we can expect on the horizon for long-haul and metro connectivity 16.30 Optical Network Evolution for Emerging DCI Applications

What are the DCI requirements?

Changing transport architectures to serve DC Networks Sean Long, Director, PLM for Transmission Network, Huawei USA

16.50 Five – to-Ten years on Traffic Planning, Sustainability and Energy Costs? Ali Heydari, Senior Technical Director, Baidu ( Internet Content Provider flash)

17.10 Discussing the Impact of Software Defined DCs (SDDCs) (Panel Discussion flash)

How will SDN & virtualisation affect the physical infrastructure deployment in the optical DC and which components and subsystems will be needed?

How to deploy SDN across entire optical network- metro, regional and long-haul and accelerating the ability to have nationwide implementation at low risk

Harald Bock, CTO Technology Strategy, Coriant John Jaeger, Product Management - Data Centre & Metro Cloud, Infinera Hong Yu, Planning Manager, Bearer Product Line, ZTE Ali Heydari, Senior Technical Director, Baidu ( Internet Content Provider flash)

17.40 Data Centre Service Requirements – What do Data Centre customers want from their SP’s and how is this Changing? Sharon Gai, Cloud Evangelist, Internap (DC operator)

18.00 Drinks Reception and

Day Two, Thursday 30th June

OPTICAL DATA CENTRE INTERCONNECT

09.00 What are the Market Drivers for Optical DCI? (Analyst Set the Scene)

Optical DCI Adoption Trends & Market Dynamics

Discussing the main driver for WDM equipment is demand for the interconnection of data centres Lisa Huff, Principal Analyst, Discerning Analytics

09.10 DevOps Friendly Data Centre Interconnect – the Choices and Applications

Different types of data Centre players have varying networking needs depending on their business goals, operational processes, scale, and geographic coverage

Understand how to match your needs to the available choices and the key role that Data Centre friendly simplified operations has to play Mervyn Kelly, EMEA Marketing Director, Ciena

09.30 Google’s Data Centre Network

Discussing sparse, with few traffic locations – long reach

Discussing Fibre leased, large pipes needed between few sites – high capacity

Discussing Long spans Lieven Verslegers, Senior Hardware Engineer, Google ( DC Operator flash)

09.50 Optical Networking Opportunities in the Access, Metro and Long-haul Networks to support DC Connectivity

Looking at the changes afoot for DCI in 2016 and what is driving these changes, including but not limited to: The rise of peering data centres, the increasing importance of encryption, the move to open optical line systems, the move of transponders from transport to switching gear, how OpenConfig has appeared as a new challenger to OpenFlow, and a renewed focus on power efficiency

Jim Theodoras, Senior Director of Business Development, ADVA Optical Networking 10.10 Data Centre Connectivity

The Data Centre Connectivity Market

OTN v Packet Optical Transport

Leveraging the Transport Layer

Alan Corfield, Manager, Transmission Engineering & Planning, Virgin Media (Operator flash)

10.30 Comparing the Differing Types of DCs and their Interconnections Needs (Panel Discussion & Polling Session)

What are the key differences between hyperscale and enterprise Data Centre optics?

Comparing the CP & Telcos needs form Optical DCI

Delivering lower cost Optical DCI – cost modelling and business impact

Open IX - what is it and how does it help DCI?

Which market segments and applications will dominate optics going forward?

What role do standards play in the various market segments and applications? Are there Data Sovereignty- country specific, Impact and rules?

Which technologies are being developed to support high bandwidth DCI and which are likely to be successful? Is there one technology that captures all needs or will reality be a lot more complicated?

Evolution of DCI- from simple point-to-point to flexible, programmable networks Richard Petrie, CTO, LINX (IXP) Brad Booth, Principal Engineer, Microsoft ( DC Operator flash) Udo Schaefer, Business Leader Optical Networks, Nokia Gilad Preminger, Head of Cloud Networking Solutions, ECI Telecom

11.00 Morning Refreshments, Exhibition Visit, Demos & Speed Networking What is Speed Networking? Speed Networking is an efficient, face-to-face professional networking model similar to “speed dating” that enables participants to make new contacts through one-on-one focused conversations lasting between 2-4 minutes. Speed networking helps you forge new connections during the event. These are informal, fun and highly effective introduction sessions giving you a maximum exposure to a large number of conference participants in the shortest time!

EVOLVING TOWARDS 400G & 1TBITS

12.00 Evolving towards 400G & 1 TBits (Analyst Set the Scene flash)

Beyond 100G deployment time line and what will be the application drivers and regions?

What is available now? What is being deployed?

Examine drivers to determine potential time to emergence of these super-channels

Jimmy Yu, Vice President of Optical Transport Research, Dell’Oro Group

12.10 400G Trial Case Study & Commercial Deployment

ZTE 400G OTN solution & evolution

Discussing DT Austria branch, T-Mobile Austria field trial Shuai Zhao, Technical Director, European Market, ZTE Corporation 12.30 Defining Requirements and Specifications for 400G & all Modulations –

INTRA OPTICAL DCI – COMPONENT & MODULE FOCUS Technology Deep Dive into short reach interconnects used within and between racks of equipment inside data centres

12.00 Intra – Short Reach in DC. Where is intra Optical DCI applied? (Analyst Set the Scene flash)

What is the cost structure?

What are the requirements s and how are they changing?

What are the pros and cons and limitations of these technologies?

System building and designing end-to –end Ioannis Tomkos, Head of the “High Speed Network and Optical Communication (NOC)” Research Group, AIT

12.20 Latest Trends in Optical Interconnects

200G, 300G, 500G+ (Association Update flash) Karl Gass, Physical & Link Layer Working Group Vice Chair – Optical, Optical Interworking Forum (OIF)

12.45 Terabit Transmission and the Emergence of Software Configurable Optics

Innovation in high-capacity superchannel infrastructures

Emerging Software configurable optics

Real-world technology trials and deployments Kevin Smith, Transport Platform Futures, Innovation and Technology Evaluation, BT (Lead Operator flash) 13.05 400G Deployed by a National Research and Education Network

Demonstrating using gridless superchannels

Deployment of 400 Gbps optical connection linking two distinct, large-scale data centres and to integrate scientific workflows and research in the areas of fibre-optic signal transport, data movement and management techniques to support the execution of those workflows

Jason Lee, Networking Engineer, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Centre (NERSC) (NREN flash)

Significant increase in 25G and 100G port density Extension of optical links beyond the Standards Reutilisation of 10G fibre plant for 40G/100G Moving beyond 100G towards 200G and 400G

Martin Zirngibl, Vice President and Technical Fellow, Finisar

12.40 Discussing Optical Connectivity in Hyperscale Data Centres Jeffery Cox, Principal Engineer, Microsoft (DC Operator flash)

13.00 Cost Effective Transceiver Solution for Intra Data Centre

Key performance of transceiver for future Intra Data Centre

Requirements for optical device

Relative cost comparison for 2km SMF candidates Toshiki Tanaka, Research Manager, Next-Generation Optical Communications Project, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd

13.20 Eat with the Experts: Service Providers hosted Lunch Tables We know that hearing someone speak for 30 or 40 minutes might not always provide enough opportunity for your burning questions to be answered, which is why each of your speakers will be on separate tables during this networking lunch break – so you can do just that.

OPTIMISING CAPACITY & REACH WITH ROADMS, FLEXGRID & SUPER CHANNELS 14.15 Chair Opening Heidi Adams, Senior Research Director, Transport Networks, IHS

14.15 Novel Universal Coherent pluggable transceivers for future WDM Networks

Requirements for future WDM networks

Future trend of Coherent transceivers (CFP-DCO and CFP2-ACO) and Discrete devices technologies

Technology Evolution - Novel Universal Coherent pluggable transceiver enabling higher baud-rate

Kenichi Nakamoto, Assistant Manager, Marketing Department, Fujitsu Optical Components Limited

14.40 Examining Latest Developments in the Migration Towards an Agile Transparent WDM Infrastructure Based on ROADM

Examining how advances in ROADM technology and flexigrid continue to enable flexible, dynamic mesh optical networks

DEBATING PHOTONIC INTEGRATION & DC SOLUTIONS

14.15 Optics inside the DC- IEEE/MSA standard solutions, COBO,

photonic integration and SiP (Analyst Set the Scene)

Advancements – scaleability – low cost integration Ioannis Tomkos, Head of the “High Speed Network and Optical Communication

(NOC)” Research Group, AIT

14.30 The Technologies Powering 100G and 400G Transceivers in Data Centres

The continuing technology advancements in 100G transceivers

Leveraging 100G technology investments for cost effective 400G solutions Chris Pfistner, Vice President, Product Line Management, Datacom, Lumentum 14.50 The All-Optical Data Center Brad Booth, Principal Engineer, Microsoft

Innovation with CDC ROADMs

Superchannel and efficient optical spectrum utilisation

What are the operators’ considerations in deploying ROADM at scale? Uka Ibe, Team Lead, Transmission Access Planning, Network Group – Transmission, MTN Nigeria ( Operator flash – Africa focus)

15.00 Optimising Capacity and Reach With ROADMS, Flexgrid and Super Channels (Panel Discussion flash)

What is available now and what is being deployed?

How to deliver agile, elastic and adaptive optical networking?

Decreasing Costs (CAPEX & OPEX) with flexibility and automation

Adaptive modulation according to distance and capacity

What will be the next step in spectral efficiency?

Operators will need flexgrid to deploy 400G

What are the drivers determining the time-scale of super channel emergence?

Wolfram Sturm, Head of Regional Product Management and Consulting

Engineering, Optics Business – EMEA, Nokia

Madhu Krishnaswamy, Director, Product Line Management, Optical

Communications, Lumentum Moran Roth, Director, Product Management, Infinera Shuai Zhao, Technical Director, European Market, ZTE Corporation Uka Ibe, Team Lead, Transmission Access Planning, Network Group – Transmission, MTN Nigeria Lorenzo Ghioni, Senior Manager, Product Management, Cisco Systems

15.40-16.20 Afternoon Refreshments & Exhibition Visit

THE OPTIONS AND TIMEFRAMES FOR PACKET OPTICAL INTEGRATION & CONVERGENCE 16.20 Chair Opening: Heidi Adams, Senior Research Director, Transport Networks, IHS

16.20 Anticipating the Future: End to End Packet Optical Architecture for Convergent Network Modernisation

Discussing how technology confluence, service diversity and capex/opex reduction objectives are addressing the market dynamics to modernise core and metro networks

15.10 - Integrated Photonics for Data Centre Interconnect Takashi Saida, Project Leader, NTT ( Operator flash)

15.40-16.30 Afternoon Refreshments & Exhibition Visit

16.30 Debating the Photonic Integration Alternatives: InP, Silicon, Both or Something else? (Panel & Debating session flash) Ajay Govil, Director Packet Architecture, XO Communications ( Operator flash) Frederic Dominici, Data Centre Project Director, Interxion (DC Operator flash)

17.00 Photonic Integration enabling cost effective Datacom, Metro and Long Haul Applications Silvio Abrate, Head of Applied Photonics, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella 17.20 Photonic Integration in Indium Phosphide for Metro and Optical DCI To be confirmed, see opticaldci.com for updates

17.40 Silicon Photonics in Optical Networking – Yesterday’s Hype, Today’s Reality, Tomorrow’s Vision

What will be the new technologies shaping the future of Optical DCI To be confirmed, see opticaldci.com for updates

Detailing an End to End packet optical architecture based on high speed long reach, convergent metro and future proof access and aggregation with innovative circuit emulation solution

Demonstrating the benefits that Network Operators will get implementing the solution in terms of Total Cost of Ownership

David Bianchi, Business Development Manager, Cisco Systems 16.40 Packet-Optical, the Future of Transmission Networks? Fred Masiak, Expert Network Development Engineer, Transmission Architecture, Vodafone (Operator flash) 17.00 Introduction of Packet Optical Networking into Virgin Media

Drivers for Packet Optical Transport

First tentative steps – mobile backhaul

Pseudo Transport Based CMTS backhaul

B2B Packet Optical Transport Services Benjamin Barrett-Davis, Core Transmission Engineering & Planning, Virgin Media ( Operator flash)

17.20 Addressing the Challenge of Multivendor Interoperability in IP and Optical Data and Control Planes (Panel Discussion flash)

Making the case for interoperability in black link standardisation

Is there a push for pluggable OTN transponders?

Business case for standardised control plane features such as: multilayer resilience, automatic network provisioning, alien wavelength restoration

Examining the relative benefits of single / multi-vendor scenarios

Integrating packet and optical capabilities including carrier-Ethernet, OTN, ROADM, and DWDM all in a single box

Examining drivers for OTN transmission and switching in terms of multi-layer integration and reduced TCO

Comparing the relative benefits of OTN with IPoWDM architecture

Where should packet optical networks be applied, the metro or backbone?

What capacity does the Core Packet-Optical Transport platform of 2018 (present + 2 years) need to support?

Jorge Cardoso, Network Architect, NOS Portugal ( Operator flash) Young Lee, Technical Director, Network Architecture of SDN, Huawei USA

Rafal Zakrzewski, System Group Architect, Orange Poland ( Operator flash)

Benjamin Barrett-Davis, Core Transmission Engineering & Planning, Virgin Media ( Operator flash)

18.00 Drinks Reception

Day Three, Friday 1st July 09.00-10.45

TRANSPORT SDN & NFV– WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR OPTICAL NETWORKING?

09.00 What T-SDN & NFV mean to an operator? (Analyst Set the Scene flash)

Beyond the hype, real world benefits, what drives the business case for deployment, early trial and deployment case studies and experiences?

Product managers &operations – how will SDN & NFV affect their jobs?

Understanding the status and maturity of Transport SDN and NFV

How will the Open Network Operating System (ONOS) project effect network architectures and the data centre?

Network Element Disaggregation – Drivers, progress, place in the overall optical architecture? Tim Doiron, Principal Analyst, Practice Lead, Intelligent Networking, ACG Research

09.10 Elastic 400G Multi-layer Networking

• Future networks must be based on SDN-controlled multilayer optimisation and bandwidth over-subscription to overcome physical optical technology limits • Ways to realise this vision with 400G technologies and agile services Jonathan Homa, Director of Portfolio Marketing, ECI Telecom

Jan Radil, Senior Researcher, Optical Networks Department, CESNET (operator flash)

09.40 The SDN optical network of WAN for DCI

• The elastic carrier network of DC interconnection • The IP+Optical network coordination • The management and control integration of optical networks

Hong Yu, Planning Manager, Bearer Product Line, ZTE

10.00 Operator Challenges in Softwarising Optical Networks

OGN (Old Generation Network) to NGN (next Generation Network) to SGN (software Generation Network)

Technical and non-technical challenges

Importance of right softwarisation strategy

Anuradha Udunuwara, Senior Engineer, Sri Lanka Telecom (operator flash)

10.20 Forget the Layers: NFV is about Dynamism

Service providers are now struggling with tough questions about NFV - should they virtualise at the edge, or centrally in a data centre? Should

they focus on layer 2 functions and connectivity, or layer 3? The answer to those questions is “both”

Furthermore, innovators in NFV are showing that those aren’t even the most interesting questions. Instead, service providers should be asking:

how they can they dynamically orchestrate NFV-based services to provide new revenue? How can they deploy on both greenfield and brownfield

scenarios? And are there examples of how this is being done today? Prayson Pate, CTO, Ensemble, a Division of ADVA Optical Networking

10.40 Morning Refreshments, Exhibition Visit & Demos 11.30 Transport SDN Deployment – A Starter Kit (Association update flash)

Discussing recent proof-of-concept, prototype technology demonstrations and field trials showing progress in the evolution to commercial SDN deployment

Service providers, network element providers and software vendors collaborating in standards bodies, industry fora and laboratories to identify and address technical and business challenges standing in the way of broader market adoption

Reviewing findings from its Global Transport SDN Prototype Demo and outline components of a tool kit aimed at clearing a path to wide-scale transport SDN deployment

John McDonough, President, OIF

12.00 Addressing the Real World Challenges of Migrating to Optical Infrastructures to be based on SDN & NFV (panel discussion flash)

Examining the current status of SDN & NFV optical networks and drivers for deployment

Understanding how optical networks differ from data centre and campus networks, what are the additional challenges?

Overcoming issues of multi-vendor interoperability

Cost justifying investment in SDN & NFV and timescales for ROI Virtualisation (NFV) in the optical domain : a myth ? a hype ? a lie ?

Where are we with the optical white box?

Joe Marsella, EMEA CTO, Ciena Anuradha Udunuwara, Senior Engineer, Sri Lanka Telecom

12.30 Optical Networks Security Controls Optical Networks Managerial Security Controls Optical Networks Technical Security Controls Optical Networks Physical Security Controls

Kenza Gaizi, Trust and Safety Analyst, Google (DC Operator flash) 12.50 Networking Lunch & Exhibition Visit

13.40 Results of the Ovum Survey - Evolution Of The Optical Network Market

Ian Redpath, Principal Analyst, Ovum

EVOLVING NEXT GENERATION OPTICAL ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES– 5G, BACKHAUL (CWDM & DWDM), FRONTHAUL & NG PON

13.55 Evolving Next Generation Optical Access Technologies(Analyst Set the Scene)

Challenges of delivering cheap WDM in metro/backhaul networks

Emergence of cost optimised (cost/bit) solutions for reach ~100’s km or less

Capex, space and power will be key vendor differentiators

Status of 100G solutions and emergence of 200G and replacing copper with Fibre in Access Networks

Jon Lively, Principal Analyst, Lightcounting Market Research

14.15 Examining the Fronthaul Network Segment on the 5G Road- Why Hybrid Optical WDM Access and Wireless Technologies are required? Mobile fronthaul networking services for Orange's 4G network in France

Orange's network how it can deliver a unique end-to-end performance combining fibre and wireless for mobile fronthaul for today's mobile infrastructures 2G/3G/4G and for future advanced 5G mobile networks

Philippe Chanclou, Manager, Orange Labs & Sebastien Randazzo, Project Leader, Fronthaul Trials, Orange France (operator flash)

14.40 Flexible Access System Architecture (FASA) for the Next-Generation Optical Access Network Development Junichi Kani, Engineer, NTT (operator flash)

15.00 Pushing Fibre Upfront: NG Optical Networking Access Technologies Enabling 5G, Backhaul, Fronthaul & PON Evolution (Panel Discussion) Outlining the evolution of Optical network access based solutions to meet traffic demands

Enabling scalability to achieve higher cell density and support faster and more economic RAN deployments

Making the case for optical access to meet data rate needs and latency and jitter requirements

Examining the latest innovations in optical access and deployment techniques for higher capacity, scalable, transparent and, most importantly, more economic deployments in networks Moderator: Lieven Levrau, Director Product Line Management Optical Networks Strategy, Nokia Philippe Chanclou, Manager, Orange Labs & Sebastien Randazzo, Project Leader, Fronthaul Trials, Orange France (operator flash)

15.30 SmartCity Applications to be Driven by the Synergy of Optical Data Centre and Fibre Grid Network Supporting Small Cells

Project Background - Johor Smart State (A Malaysian’s Region) as the driver for Malaysia and the ASEAN Region

Johor Smart State Optical Data Centre and the WDM Fibre backbone supporting Small Cell

Johor Key Smart State Business Applications Saiful Jumaat Osman, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Focus Technology Network Sdn. Bhd. (operator flash)

15.50 Multi-core and Few-mode Fibre Technology for Space Division Multiplexing Transmission

Kazuhide Nakajima, Senior Research Engineer, NTT (operator flash) 16.10 Conference wrap discussion

16.20 End of Conference