Exhibit Hall Displays and Activities
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OFC/NFOEC is your one-stop information, networking, and business solutions center for advancing optical communications and networking. All events on the exhibit floor are free to registered attendees.
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Types of Product Solutions You'll Find at OFC/NFOEC
Show Floor Activities and Events
Unparalleled education focused on providing real life solutions to your current business challenges. Don’t miss this free show floor programming that will enable you to make informed decisions about your future business development.
- Fiber Optic Switch & Technology Center—New This Year! – Fiber Switching Technologies and Applications: Join the Advanced Fiber Connectivity and Switching Forum to discover how advanced fiber connectivity and automated switching can help in provisioning, testing and monitoring various network architectures such as FTTx, and in facilitating network/backbone fiber recovery & restoration, troubleshooting, and fault location. Participate in demonstrations and discussions on the latest in fiber switching technologies such as colorless/directionless reconfigurable and sub-microsecond switching.
- Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) Program: Optical Networking – Delivering on the Promise – Users want seamlessly connected advanced services delivered on-demand wherever they may be, on any platform, over any available network. But as the user experience becomes richer, the underlying technologies and networks become more complex. The OIF guides the development of building blocks for highly intelligent, reliable, interoperable networks that deliver enhanced services - all while meeting the challenges to simplify network operations and drive down costs. In this workshop you will hear from industry experts on OIF work that helps meets these challenges. Get insights on work related to 100G, control plane as well as on-demand carrier services based on OIF implementation agreements.
- Market Watch – This three-day series of panel sessions engages the applications and business communities in such emerging areas as 100G standards, ROADMs, DWDM, and other optical communications network applications. Presentations and panel discussions feature esteemed guest speakers from industry, research, and the investment community.
- Service Provider Summit – Join your colleagues for this dynamic program with topics and speakers of interest to CTOs, network architects, network designers, and technologists within the service provider and carrier sector.
- Hot Topics – Within these programs, hear discussions of the field’s hottest topics, including 100G, datacomm, next-generation networks, FTTx, and beyond.
- FTTx Resource Center – A combination demonstration and resource center, The Light Brigade’s FTTx Resource Center offers “one-stop shopping” for all things related to fiber to the home. The FTTx Resource Center features a live GPON system and a preview of a next-generation (NGPON) network.
- Optical Switch Pavilion – Visit this new pavilion dedicated to optical switch technologies. Companies in this pavilion will be focused on central office, data center, carrier hotel, recovery, test & monitoring and colorless/directionless reconfigurable switching applications.
- Asia Pavilion – The Asian Telecom Market is growing by leaps and bounds every year. See what products companies in China and Taiwan have on display for you to learn about the future of this rapidly growing market segment.
- German Pavilion – The German Pavilion features companies from Germany that are leaders in Optical Fiber Communications. Stop by these booths to see where optical fiber communications began and where it is headed.
- POF Market Opportunities Presentation – The Plastic Optical Fiber Trade Organization (POFTO) is organizing a POF Symposium to review recent developments in POF markets, technology, and applications. In addition, POFTO is organizing a POF DAY, POF Press conference, and POF Applications Center which is open throughout the show and features the latest POF Industry products.
- Video Theater – Installation and system footage are combined with animations and graphics to give an in-depth look into the world of fiber optics at the educational Video Theater. The Video Theater features DVDs produced by The Light Brigade. New features to the theater include fiber-optic devices and connectors and cable management products.
- New Product Introductions – A show floor theater in which individual exhibitors will be highlighting their newest developments, products, and services in 30-minute showcase presentations.
Poster Presentations
Poster presentations are an integral part of the technical program and offer an opportunity for lively discussion between the poster presenters and attendees.
Special Opportunity – Job Fair
Looking for a job? Or interested in exploring career options? The OFC/NFOEC Job Fair connects employers and skilled job seekers from all areas of optical communications.
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