OIDA Announces Two Communication Workshops Held in Tandem with OFC/NFOEC 2012

 

OIDA Optical Communication Networks: Quantitative Metrics in the Data Center Workshop/Roadmap Report Session

4 March 2011 - Los Angeles, CA

The Optical Communication Networks: Quantitative Metrics in the Data Center workshop will quantify metrics related to optical communication within data centers, including projections for those metrics to 2022. The workshop extends the work begun at a two-day October 2011 program that focused on aggregation networks—the networks between end users and longer haul networks. The aim of the March 2012 workshop is to provide useful and coherent benchmarks and targets for system vendors, component suppliers, funding agencies, and other stakeholders in the future communications infrastructure.

Confirmed speakers include: Dan Kilper - Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Chris Janz - Ciena, Donn Lee - Facebook, Vijay Vusirikala - Google, Ray Beausoleil - Hewlett-Packard, Clint Schow - IBM, George Papen - UC San Diego, Adel Saleh - UC Santa Barbara, and Bill Garrett - Verizon Technology.

OIDA Workshop: Opportunities and Trends in Optoelectronic Manufacturing

5 March 2012 - Los Angeles, CA

The goal of this one day industry-centric workshop is to examine the economic drivers that lead to off-shoring, to determine what manufacturing technologies and business incentives are needed to facilitate more on shore manufacturing, and to delineate topics of technology focus in optoelectronics that might be used to address government manufacturing initiatives.

Featured speakers include leaders from: Carnegie Mellon University, Corning Incorporated, DARPA, Infinera Corporation, NIST, and NRC (Canada)

 

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Videos and Presentations Posted!
OIDA/CIAN Optical Communication Networks Workshop

OIDA/CIAN Optical Communication Workshop: Future Directions &
Metrics in Aggregation Networks held October 18-19, 2011 in San Jose, CA

Twelve invited speakers, four moderators/presiders, and four facilitators came together with over 90 attendees in this highly participatory workshop toward the establishment of a roadmap for intelligent optical aggretation networks. Conclusions and recommendations for future research will be summarized in a future roadmap report.

OIDA members and workshop attendees may access available presenters' slides now using their Attendee or OIDA Member Video Login Credentials. If you are in need of your credentials, please feel free to contact OIDA at 202-416-1449 (OIDAInfo@osa.org). A summary report of the talks will be available soon.

 

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NSF Poster Session Winners announced

The OIDA/CIAN workshop also featured a poster session highly the work of our future industry leaders.  This session, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), featured 10 outstanding posters.

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