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Issue 5 | Q3 2015

High-speed broadband on the up! p14

p16 The case for Silicon Photonics p18 Mellanox drives p20 Demanding markets p22 PON set for record levels

p24 Refined fibres p26 FTTx empowers APAC p28 Future-proof Europe! p30 Trending Now

Optical Connections: Bringing the World the Latest in Optical Communications News

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Bienvenido Fibre has been on the rise in Spain over the last few years, with telecoms regulator CNMC (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia) recently reporting that connections in the country have grown to 1.81 million; an increase of well over 1 million on the previous year. Good progress was also reported in the FTTH Council Europe’s 2015 ‘FTTH market panorama’ and it is here that the fibre optics community will descend for ECOC 2015; the 41st edition of ECOC and a 20th anniversary for the exhibition. This edition of Optical Connections includes an in-depth look into the event, from page 32, with key presentations and exhibitors highlighted. According to the 2015 ‘Digital Agenda Scoreboard’, published by the European Commission, there has also been a dramatic rise in European 4G coverage and high-speed broadband. Matthew Peach reports on page 14. For a long time, Silicon Photonics has been viewed as a technology with huge potential. Yet recently, there have been questions asked as to just when it will start delivering on its promise. On page 16, Roy Rubenstein highlights the companies closest to reaching the manufacturing stage and tells us not to be fooled by the apparent calm. In the first of two articles looking at passive optical networks, on page 21, John Williams celebrates G-PON’s success in the fibre-based access market. Julie Kunstler follows with an analytical forecast of PON growth for 2015, from page 22. Earlier this year, a team from Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre manufactured a record breaking 11km, hollow core photonic bandgap fibre. The ORC also announced that it will make its specialised, next generation fibres, like rare-earth-doped with ultra-high dopant concentrations, available for general purchase. On page 24, Matthew Peach explains how these specialised fibres are now supporting higher transmission rates and more energy-efficient networks. There has been a surge of fibre growth amongst APAC countries, with 155m subscribers at the end of 2014 and 174m predicted by 2019. Kendrick Struthers Watson highlights the growth diversity and technology preference of this region, on page 26. FTTH and FTTB subscriptions in Europe have also risen significantly. Director General of the FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tuaber, reviews the developments and predictions, on page 28. On page 30, Gordon Brebner, Distinguished Engineer at Xilinx, highlights how two of the industry’s hottest topics, Software Defined Networks and Network Functions Virtualization, are set to reduce capital and operational expenditure.

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Issue 5 |Q32015

High-speedbroadband on theup! p14

14 High-speed broadband on the up! Matthew Peach

p16 SiliconPhotonics p18 Mellanoxdrives p20 Demandingmarkets p22 PON set for record levels p24 Refined fibres p26 FTTx empowersAPAC p28 Future-proofEurope! p30 TrendingNow

OpticalcOnnectiOns: Bringing theworld the Latest inOpticalCommunicationsNews

16 The case for Silicon Photonics Roy Rubenstein

18 Mellanox drives Per Danielsen

20 Demanding markets John Williamson

22 PON set for record levels Julie Kunstler

24 Refined fibres Matthew Peach

26 FTTx empowers APAC Kendrick Struthers-Watson

28 Future-proof Europe! Hartwig Tauber

30 Trending now Gordon Brebner

32 Event focus - ECOC

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Alcatel-Lucent and Apollo achieve transmission record for capacity upgrade over 6,500km on transatlantic system A pollo and Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks the undersea cables fully flexible WDM grid and multiple modulation schemes tuning the

optical transmission in order to match each channel format to line performance. This spectral engineering capability will be further extended with next- generation technology offered by the 1620 SOFTNODE, enabling an increase in the ultimate capacity per fibre pair of more than 10%. Additionally, with the next step evolution of error correction coding and pulse shaping schemes, more than 10Tbit/s per fibre pair can be unlocked. Richard Elliott, Managing Director of Apollo said, “This new demonstration further proves the technological lead of the Apollo system in offering capacity increases. The achievable capacity of 8Tbit/s per fibre pair has confirmed once again our expectation; that Apollo could carry around four times the

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