News: Optoelectronics
10 August 2023
OIF hosting largest ever multi-vendor interoperability demo at ECOC
In booth #304 at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2023) in Glasgow, Scotland, UK (2-4 October), the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is showcasing its largest-ever multi-vendor interoperability demonstration, involving 39 companies participating in live and static demos highlighting advances in four key technology areas: 400ZR+ optics; co-packaging solutions; Common Electrical I/O (CEI) channels; and Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS) implementations.
The collaborative efforts of OIF’s network operator, system vendor, component vendor and test equipment vendor members are on display at ECOC, illustrating their contributions in driving the adoption of technologies for both present and future networks. OIF member companies participating in the demo are: Adtran; Alphawave Semi; Amphenol; Applied Optoelectronics Inc; Broadcom Inc; Cadence Design Systems Inc; Casela Technologies; Ciena; Cisco Systems; Coherent; Credo Technology Group; Eoptolink; EXFO; Fujitsu Optical Components; Hisense Broadband; Infinera; Juniper Networks; Keysight Technologies; Linktel Technologies; Lumentum; MACOM Technology Solutions; Molex; MultiLane Inc; NEC Corp; Nokia; O-Net Technologies; Precision Optical Transceivers Inc; Quantifi Photonics; Samtec; Semtech; Senko Advanced Components; Sicoya; Source Photonics; Sumitomo Electric Industries; Synopsys; Telefonica S.A.; VIAVI Solutions and Wilder Technologies. The interoperability demo is supported by participating companies Telefonica and LightRiver. Telefonica is the hosting consulting network operator, and LightRiver is a host for technology-specific pre-demonstration integration testing.